Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the main impediments to harnessing solar energy is storage. Solar batteries work as a short-term solution, but not when it comes to long-term storage or to power, say, an entire city. Solar energy and oil wells might sound like an odd combination, but the principle is similar to how geothermal energy would be harnessed.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Commission also approved grants for the operation of a hydrogen fueling station, biofuel production, geothermal exploration and rooftop solar for schools. Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. First NorCal Retail H 2 Refueling Station Open. Halotechnics and UCLA: $1.5 Itron, Inc.: $1

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency John Laird released a landscape-level draft renewable energy and conservation plan covering more than 22 million acres in the California desert. The plan also includes an analysis of the potential environmental impacts of these alternatives.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

In response to this directive, the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) has already allocated nearly $400 million to help bolster statewide infrastructure and create a viable market for zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), and to promote alternative fuels. . ITM Power Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), in cooperation with the State of California and public utility company San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), started the demonstration of the United States’ largest redox flow battery system in California. Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Background.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The Colorado School of Mines, in partnership with Global Algae Innovations, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Colorado State University, will improve the productivity of robust wild algal strains using advanced directed evolution approaches in combination with high-performance, custom-built, solar simulation bioreactors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Denver, Colo. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., Groundwork Renewables Inc., Flexible perovskite-perovskite PV for mobile power applications, $745,500 Swift Solar, Redwood City, Calif. Solar Energy Industries Association, Washington, D.C.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

In the document, the commission argued that the existing net energy metering tariff “negatively impacts non-participating customers; is not cost-effective; and disproportionately harms low-income ratepayers” since homeowners without solar are being shouldered with the price of maintaining the grid. requires your leadership.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The return on this investment extends far beyond the San Diego campus. The Commission approved a $1.6-million

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

The US Department of Energy announced $75 million in funding to renew the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis ( JCAP ), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub originally established in 2010 with the goal of harnessing solar energy for the production of fuel. Earlier post.). Molecular Catalysis. High-Throughput Experimentation.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 19, 2009

On Monday and Tuesday of last week the Reverend Ron and I were in El Cajon, California working on our first volunteer solar install with our new friends from GRID Alternatives. GRID Alternatives San Diego Accomplishes First “Complete&# Install. It was a first for many staff and volunteers in San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

This project includes $150,000 in match funding from San Diego Gas & Electric. Other projects receiving funding include: Foresight Renewable Solutions of San Francisco will receive $1.7 million to demonstrate renewable energy management using a compressed air energy storage system.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2014

The Energy Commission approved 15 grants totaling more than $5 million to install 475 electric vehicle chargers in communities throughout California, including the cities of San Francisco, Burbank, Torrance and San Diego and the counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

California’s current strategy of recovering a myriad of fixed costs in electricity usage rates must change as the state uses more renewable electricity to power buildings and vehicles, according to the findings from a new report from the Energy Institute at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and non-profit think tank Next 10.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 13, 2018

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will partner with an industry-academia team led by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) to investigate secondary applications for aged battery packs from electric drive vehicles. NREL PHEV/EV Li-Ion Battery Second-Use Project.

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OCTOBER 13, 2018

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

This two-way data exchange will create a means to use EV batteries to help manage variable grid conditions, generation oversupply and other challenges associated with the state’s goals to decarbonize its electricity sector with renewable energy resources such as solar and wind.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

(The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Chan Park of University of California, Riverside will receive $94,407 to develop a fuel sensing technology for natural gas vehicles.The technology has the potential to help the state attain its clean air standards and increase adoption of natural gas vehicles in California through the development of new sources of renewable natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, Inc., The goal is to complete fuel certifications to ready Sapphire Energy’s renewable crude oil for wide-scale oil refining. The company’s biofuels platform is one piece of a technology strategy that also includes research and development of fuel cells and solar cells.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Renewable energy collected by the solar panels directly feeds the energy-efficient microgrid, helping power the plant. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The remarkable advantage for BMW customers in using BMW i3 batteries as a plug and play storage application is the ability to tap into an alternative resource for residential and commercial backup power, thus using renewable energy much more efficiently, and enabling additional revenues from the energy market.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. Among the technologies that will be applied to the Honda Smart Home US: Solar Power System. Earlier post.).

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JULY 29, 2014

Phase II of the project expanded the use of this network to schedule charge times based on the needs of the driver and preferred rate structures, including the use of renewable energy sources for charging. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

The work is part of a newly signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between ASU and Sandia to collaborate on algae-based biofuels, solar fuels, concentrating solar technologies, photovoltaics, electric grid modernization and the energy-water nexus.

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 30, 2023

This not only helps users save on costs by avoiding peak energy periods but also aids in balancing the grid’s load and integrating more renewable energy sources. For instance, AI can schedule charging when there is a surplus of solar or wind energy available, leading to a more sustainable energy consumption pattern.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The awards were made through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program awards. The facility will create biodiesel from renewable waste-based materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants. Tour Engine, Inc. ,

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

As electricity increasingly comes from renewables, total electric vehicle GHG emissions will continue downward, but that will take at least a decade or more to happen everywhere across the U.S. The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning. assuming policy roadblocks disappear), and even longer elsewhere.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Through AB 8, the California Legislature has directed the Energy Commission to invest up to $20 million per year—20% of the annual Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) funding—to build this preliminary infrastructure. million gallons of renewable diesel fuel annually.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

So buckle up and hang on while I take you for a little trip with the Greenius to the places I’ve been and the places I’m going… My First Solar PV Install. As regular Creative Greenius readers have learned, GRID Alternatives is a nonprofit organization that installs solar panels on low-income housing in California.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

shocked climate advocates due to its proposed changes to the state’s rules on residential solar solutions. would charge solar users with a “grid participation charge” of $8/kWh of installed solar. Tesla estimated that an $8/kWh charge could add between $50-$80/month to a solar customer’s power bill.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. More and more renewable energy is being added to the grid, but the distribution system has to be designed for the peaks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

The piece was co-authored by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego climate and atmospheric scientist V. Available technology such as diesel particulate filters for vehicles and cleaner- burning biomass and solar cookstoves can significantly reduce black carbon emissions.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

This is the second post of our renewable energy and EV charging series. Sources of clean and renewable energy are increasingly being integrated by utilities around the world. What is Renewable Energy? Basically, renewable energy , also known as clean energy or green energy, never runs out. Renewables & EV Charging.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Field testing will be conducted at a renewable power generation site in California to capture operational data on the novel process and material combination under real conditions. Data will be used to advise techno-economics and life cycle analysis of the technology. A Combined Water and CO 2 Direct Air Capture System.

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