Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Maintaining grid reliability amid increasing renewable energy penetration involves fundamental changes to power system operation and the resources leveraged to provide grid services. —Daniel Brooks, vice president of integrated grid and energy systems at EPRI.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

JERA, the largest power generation company in Japan, responsible for about 30% of Japan’s electricity, and Toyota Motor have built and deployed the first large-capacity “Sweep Energy Storage System”. The project plans to operate grid storage batteries for recharge and discharge operations, connected to the Chubu Electric Power Grid Co.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Some experts estimate that the known lithium resource in the Salton Sea can meet more than one-third of today’s global lithium demand. Battery manufacturers can also serve the accelerating stationary energy storage market, which uses batteries to support the power grid. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

TEPCO believes SMUD, with its ambitious zero carbon target by 2030 and innovative experience in leading green energy-efficiency and distributed energy resources activities, such as solar plus storage, is the ideal partner for significant real-world vehicle-to-everything collaboration.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

His analysis found that if electrolyzed hydrogen were to be produced using a 2020 US electrical grid mix, its use would be associated with approximately 2.5x If only incremental increases in renewable energy resources are introduced across the grid, electrolytic hydrogen will not become an environmentally sustainable solution.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

The Congressional Research Service last year noted increasing interest among producers of distributed energy resources (DERs)—such as rooftop solar—to sell electricity to neighbors. Electricity generated from renewable resources such as solar and wind that customers cannot use can be diverted to the grid, but there are limits.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and BMW of North America (BMW) are collaborating to test how vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology can serve as a solution to offset growing demand on the power grid, improve reliability for electric customers, and maximize the usage of renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Hahn, Gary, Werth, Aaron, Piesciorovsky, Emilio, Monday, William, Polsky, Yarom, Lee, Annabelle, and Borges Hink, Raymond (2022) “Oak Ridge National Laboratory Pilot Demonstration of an Attestation and Anomaly Detection Framework using Distributed Ledger Technology for the Power Grid Infrastructure.” doi: 10.2172/1887685.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Widely ignored, although gaining attention, is China’s strategic positioning as a crucial gatekeeper to several key “green” technologies, including battery energy storage to support electric vehicles (EVs)—specifically, battery electric vehicles (BEVs)—along with stationary storage for power grids.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

Phase one of the project consists of eleven electric school buses, four of which were funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), two by the California Energy Commission and an additional five by San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. Funding of $4.94

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at the MIT Energy Initiative have investigated the grid impacts of scaled up highway fast-charging (HFC) infrastructure by using an operations model of the 2033 Texas power grid with uniquely high spatial and temporal resolution. Transmission network upgrades can also effectively mitigate grid-HFC interactions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2023

Because HVO fuel is produced from renewable resources, its production, transportation, and combustion generate only about as many greenhouse gases as were absorbed by the plants during biomass growth. If the public power grid fails, the systems intervene immediately and without interruption because they are already in action anyway.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2009

Our most abundant renewable energy resources are concentrated in remote regions that are often not linked, or only weakly connected, to the existing transmission network. However, “ while the vision of a smart grid is appealing, policymakers should understand the costs and hurdles of large-scale, smart grid deployment ,” he says.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2018

In the PSCOPF problem selected for this challenge competition, the objective is to provide a generation dispatch at the least cost to meet system load (demand) in the base case and in all credible contingencies cases, such that power flow obeys the physics of a power grid and satisfies system’s limits.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

However, as older centralized thermal resources are being replaced with more variable renewables and long-distance delivery systems are showing their age, that synchronicity appears to be declining. US power outages are up 64% this decade compared to the previous decade.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2022

Drawing on respective resources and expertise, the intention is to contribute to regional sustainability and environmental conservation to stimulate reconstruction efforts following the Great East Japan Earthquake. FH2R can produce as much as 1,200 Nm 3 of hydrogen per hour (rated power operation) using renewable energy.

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Toyota Fuel Hydrogen Vehicles 435

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $65 million through its Connected Communities funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to expand DOE’s network of grid-interactive efficient building communities nationwide. ( optimizing for energy cost, grid services, and occupant needs and preferences, in a continuous and integrated way.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By supporting TLS operations at the Port of Long Beach, Tri-gen’s carbon-neutral products are expected to reduce more than 9,000 tons of CO 2 emission from the power grid each year. This will help decrease the use of constrained local water supplies by approximately half a million gallons per year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2019

The project seeks to address multiple challenges related to the expansion of EVs, including the repurposing of used EV batteries, the expected impact of EV demand and renewable energy on the nation’s utility operators and the integration of EV batteries as a storage solution for the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

V2GFull varies not only the charging of the vehicle battery, but also can vary the discharging of the battery back into the power grid. trafficThis scenario is currently less desirable to automotive manufacturers, but provides an additional resource benefit to PHEV/BEVs by theoretically doubling their capacity value to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

Because of this, the new power consumers not only present an additional load on the power grid, but can potentially serve as flexible storage devices in the context of the variable availability of solar and wind power. An interface with the grid operator via HEMS is one possible application.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

Results of a study by a team at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, suggest that the additional cycling to discharge vehicle batteries to the power grid in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) scenario, even at constant power, is detrimental to EV battery cell performance. 2017.05.015.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As more renewable energy sources are integrated into the power grid, the overall greenhouse gas emissions associated with EVs can be further reduced. The EPA's Power Profiler is an interactive tool that provides information about the electricity production mix in different regions.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

These directives build upon the reforms passed this session to increase power generation capacity & ensure the reliability of the Texas power grid. The directives also included allocating “reliability costs to generation resources that cannot guarantee their own availability, such as wind and solar power.”

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Neighborhood Austin Solar Renewable 145

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

By redirecting resources and focus, the industry can rapidly build the momentum required to remain in line with the Paris Agreement. Lever 1 looks at the speed at which fossil fuel-powered cars need to be replaced by electric cars but points out that this alone will not be enough.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

As the electrical power grid in the US continues to decarbonize through the efforts of utilities and individual companies, the carbon intensity of EAF steelmaking will drop to even lower levels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

These feedstocks are considered to be more sustainable and environmentally preferable than traditional feedstocks, such as fossil fuels, as they do not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions or deplete finite resources.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This is not likely to fail due to the resilience of the power grids—our trucks mainly load at midday and at night, when demand and prices are particularly low. We expect that by 2030, as much as 50% of our new sales in long-haul transport could be battery electric, provided the charging infrastructure is in place.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

The built-in battery pack can store a buffer of energy meaning that it can be disconnected from the grid. This then eases the strain on the power grid, particularly at peak times.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The team will also investigate the system feasibility of renewable power generation systems even under output suppression control or restriction to electricity power grid connection in order to demonstrate a proto-type system of the proposed system. 2018.11.119 ).

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EV Connect

JANUARY 24, 2022

As it stands, the power grid is already run-down and outdated , built for the electric loads of a century ago, not for modern life. Shifting to EVs poses a unique problem for the grid: a sudden, massive increase in demand that will be unpredictable and piecemeal. OpenADR can even turn fleet into an asset. But that’s not all.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources has agreed to acquire an operational geothermal renewable energy power plant in the Upper Rhine Valley at Insheim, Germany, through the acquisition of 100% of the shares in the entity which owns and operates the plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2013

A vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project between the University of Delaware and NRG Energy has begun selling power to PJM Interconnection for the power grid. Since then, the project has been selling power services from a fleet of EVs to PJM, whose territory has 60 million people in the 13 mid-Atlantic states.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

They conclude that these results are specific to Chicago, and cities with different power grids and street layouts could have different assessments from full electrification. The authors acknowledge funding from Carnegie Mellon University’s Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. 2c07030

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2014

Using the MCS, PowerStream can determine when it is most economical to use the resources powering its microgrid or when they need to revert to using power from the provincial power grid.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2022

It could also integrate renewable energy into the power grid during times of peak demand. Meeting this target means that the company could help the local power grid by providing stable, reliable, and clean power to New York City households and businesses.

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