Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

AeroVironment has installed electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at the Marriott Waikiki in Hawaii. The new chargers are part of Hawaii’s growing charging infrastructure currently being deployed to support electric vehicles. In March of this year AeroVironment received a $820,000 contract from the Hawaii EV Ready Grants Program.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

Solar Impulse, the solar-powered electric aircraft attempting to fly around the world, will be grounded in Hawaii until early spring 2016 due to damage to the batteries which overheated in the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

Proton OnSite has been awarded a purchase order from HydraFLX Systems Ltd to install a hydrogen generator at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) facility outside Honolulu, Hawaii. The station is being upgraded in cooperation with the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

The Solar Impulse 2 —the solar airplane that recently completed a round-the-world flight— used batteries from Kokam, based on that company’s advanced Ultra High Energy Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide (Ultra High Energy NMC) technology. The Solar Impulse uses four 38.5 The Solar Impulse uses four 38.5

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Teslarati

JANUARY 7, 2024

Tesla’s Megapacks offer energy storage for renewable sources like solar, and as the company deploys more and more of these projects around the world, one large site with these giant batteries has just gone online in Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2011

Hawaii has awarded an $820,000 contract from the Hawaii EV Ready Grants Program to AeroVironment to fund the deployment of up to 320 AeroVironment 240-volt electric vehicle (EV) charging docks throughout the islands. AeroVironment also established world altitude records with its solar-electric, unmanned aircraft systems at the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Ten companies, agencies and universities have joined an initiative between The Gas Company (TGC), and General Motors to support a ramp up of hydrogen-powered vehicles and associated fueling infrastructure in Hawaii by 2015. In Hawaii, we want to address the proverbial chicken or egg dilemma. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

4 Hawaii 137.1 Geothermal 0 0 Solar 0 8.8 On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro Coal 175.9 Natural gas 87.9 Geothermal 16.5 The entries are on the same scale as in the table above.) 2 Kentucky 143.1 3 Missouri 139.2

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Electrek

AUGUST 17, 2023

Tesla and its solar partners in Hawaii are helping the local popular in Maui amid the devasting fires with interesting looking makeshift Tesla Powerwall-based power stations. more… The post Makeshift Tesla Powerwall-based power station helps Maui amid fires appeared first on Electrek.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 158 Tesla Megapack 2 XL battery units are going to be used for load shifting and fast-frequency response services on the Hawaii Electric grid. Hawaii aims to reach 100% green energy by 2045 and already has the highest amount of solar capacity deployed per capita. Get started here.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The US Air Force is demonstrating the use of hydrogen as an alternate fuel source at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. This state organization supports the Hawaii ANG, the National Guard Bureau, and the US Air Force. US Air Force photo by J. Brian Garmon) Click to enlarge. —Stan Osserman, HCATT director.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

Much of the recent increase in new storage capacity comes from battery energy systems co-located with or connected to solar projects. Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Hawaii each have more than 50 MW of power capacity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2014

University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii will receive $3 million to develop photoelectrodes for direct solar water splitting. million to develop an innovative high-efficiency solar thermochemical reactor for solar hydrogen production. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Richland, Washington will receive $2.2

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The fires this year in Hawaii and in 2018 in California have been the most destructive in over 100 years. We have had all-time record temperatures both for the last 12 months and this past July. We’ve had record heat waves in the Middle East and the Southwest US. In the last few years, hurricanes […]

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2011

The project is supported by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), in cooperation with the State of Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Smart Grid Project for Low-voltage Transformer Level Systems (Hitachi).

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Among the leaked sites was a Supercharger located in Kahului, Hawaii. Hawaii now has several Tesla Destination Chargers as well. The first solar-powered V4 Supercharger station might open in Yuma County, Arizona. The Aloha state was the last of the 50 United States to get a Supercharger station.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2020, only two states used oil to generate more than 3% of the electricity: 66% in Hawaii and 16% in Alaska.) On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro. Natural gas. Geothermal.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

Credit: Energy Information Administration The news comes just a few days after Tesla Megapacks went live on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, enabling a 185 MW project that has helped the island move away from the use of coal.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. African Clean Energy (Lesotho) produces cookstoves that reduce smoke emissions and solar electricity for small electronics and LED lighting. Each of the 10 2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners will receive $25,000 in prize money.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 6, 2015

Today, we look at the possibility of a future Tesla Model S electric car surpassing the 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car's 312-mile range, changes to California's electric-car rebate program, and the Solar Impulse 2 airplane's successful crossing of the Pacific Ocean. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Catch up on last week's.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

DHE, with support from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and additional project partners, will make further investments in electric forklifts, over-the-road electric trucks, and charging infrastructure, all powered with solar energy generated onsite.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2014

In 2012, a Proton electrolyzer was installed at Fraunhofer ISE’s solar-powered refueling station in Freiburg as part of Baden-Württemberg''s Environment Ministry’s hydrogen refueling project. This is the second U.S.-made made Proton OnSite hydrogen generator to be delivered for vehicle fueling in Germany.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The solar system’s biggest planet has a big problem You are orbiting Jupiter, 779 million km from the sun, where physics and logic say it ought to be very, very cold. If solar heating were the only factor at play, the planet's upper atmosphere would average 70 degrees below zero Celsius. Winds in the cloud bands reach 500 km/h.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2017

Other projects address advanced manufacturing, bioenergy, buildings, geothermal, solar, water and wind technologies. The Round 3 fuel cell awardees are: Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers. Among these are two projects in the fuel cells area and four projects in the vehicle area.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The enormous Tesla Megapack battery allows local municipalities and utility companies to store excess energy created during the day, often from renewables such as wind and solar, and then use that energy to supplement the generators when their production decreases.

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EV Adoption

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Or they are states/territories like Hawaii and the District of Columbia that have both very high EV adoption rates and unique geographic characteristics. For the District of Columbia, most EV drivers live in the surrounding states of Virginia and Maryland, and will charge at home or at fast charging stations in those states.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging includes power factor correction, which is a growing concern at locations such as Fort Carson that are experiencing a growth in on-site solar power generation, resulting in utility rate penalties. Smith, Hawaii—SPIDERS is to enable those facilities to operate independent from the bulk power grid (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is a member of a team that was recently awarded a $7-million contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to demonstrate integration of electric vehicles, generators and solar arrays to supply emergency power for Fort Carson, Colo. Harbor/Hickam, Hawaii; Fort. Demonstration for Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

19 projects will leverage the HydroGEN Consortium to accelerate the development of advanced water-splitting materials for hydrogen production, with an initial focus on advanced electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and solar thermochemical pathways. University of Hawaii at Manoa. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. GreenWay Energy, LLC.

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Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2023

And while renewable power generation technologies like solar and wind were not nearly powerful enough, a series of 124 Megapacks were. Perhaps an even better example of the successful implementation of the Megapack came from last year when the State of Hawaii ditched coal power after installing a set of Megapack stations.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2016

While its electric-car manufacturing continues to get the most attention, Tesla quietly continues to build up its energy-storage business as well. Today, the still-incomplete "gigafactory" in Nevada is assembling standalone battery packs for the company's Tesla Energy stationary energy-storage division. Some of those packs will be deployed in.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Geothermal power is expanding across the Western half of the country, and new scientific and technological advancements offering the opportunity to produce geothermal power from Hawaii and Alaska to Texas and the Gulf States, with the ultimate potential being generating electrical power in nearly every state.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

A unique two-part architecture and wing system directly converts wave motion into thrust, and solar panels provide electricity for sensor payloads. Based in Silicon Valley and Hawaii, Liquid Robotics, Inc. Wave Gliders can travel to a distant area, collect data, and return for maintenance without ever requiring a ship to leave port.

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Teslarati

MARCH 1, 2022

GOES-T is a powerful weather satellite that will be responsible for monitoring weather patterns and improving forecasts across the Western United States and North America, including Alaska and Hawaii. GOES-T was manufactured by Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, and is the third satellite in the GOES-R series. Launch of #GOEST !

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

These goals are the second-highest renewable energy integration goals after the State of Hawaii. The State of California has set a goal of increasing its renewable portfolio standard, excluding large-scale hydropower generation, to 33% by 2020 and 50% by 2030.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 2, 2022

More than 100 EV enthusiasts with 40 EVs came together in the parking lot of solar company Robco Electric , where two booths were staffed to answer questions about charging station and rooftop solar installation procedures. NDEW event on Kauai in Hawaii. Coming soon: NDEW wrap-up to the south and east. Email Address.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

HydroGEN Consortium (HydroGEN) –this consortium will accelerate the development of advanced water splitting materials for hydrogen production, with an initial focus on advanced electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and solar thermochemical pathways. According to the DOE’s 2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report, many U.S.

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