Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2018

BP Wind Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Rolling Thunder I Power Partners LLC, has signed a purchase agreement to install a high-storage battery at its Titan 1 Wind Farm in South Dakota. Situated on 7,500 acres in Hand County, Titan 1 Wind Farm is wholly owned and operated by BP Wind Energy.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

This group of wind-turbine fan blades, fresh from Siemens Gamesa’s new RecycleBlade manufacturing process at England’s largest such factory, await shipment to the various points around the globe where they will serve 20- to 30-year stints generating electricity at wind farms before they’re recalled and reincarnated. What’s Next?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Seeking to slash CO 2 emissions from its North American manufacturing operations, Honda has entered into long-term virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar power that will cover more than 60% of the electricity that Honda uses in North America. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The recent increase in natural gas or dual-fuel capable reciprocating internal combustion engine units has been driven in part by advancements in engine technology that increase operational flexibility and by changes in natural gas markets that have generally provided ample supply and relatively stable fuel prices, EIA said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

While NERC’s risk scenario analysis shows adequate resources and energy for most of North America, Texas, New England, MISO and parts of the West are at an “elevated risk” of energy emergencies. for this summer as a result of adding new wind, solar, and battery resources. ERCOT’s anticipated reserve margin increased from 12.9%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2010

Li-ion manufacturer Valence Technology has been selected as the preferred residential/community battery technology provider for the “Smart Grid Community of the Future,” the first smart-grid solar-powered residential development in Texas, the Houston-area master planned community of Discovery at Spring Trails.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

Facing persistent shortages in domestic supply, the US has been forced to rely on imported materials, leaving clean energy technology production at greater risk of disruption. Selected projects fall under 12 areas of interest, corresponding to the selected US basins that have the potential to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

They are essential inputs to many critical defense and commercial technologies, particularly permanent magnets instrumental to the performance of electric vehicles, wind turbines, drones, and missile systems. HREEs have higher atomic weights and are generally less abundant than light rare earth elements (LREEs). Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

MARCH 30, 2021

Elon Musk has announced he will donate $30 million to Cameron County Schools and the City of Brownsville, Texas. The area is home to SpaceX’s South Texas launch site, often referred to as “Starbase” or the “Boca Chica Launch Site.” “Details to follow next week.” Mexico border.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas in December said it expects around 4.46 The large amount of existing and planned solar and wind capacity in California and Texas present a growing need for battery storage, with the two states currently holding 7.3 GW of battery storage to be available by July 2024. GW and 3.2

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2020

USA Rare Earth, LLC, the funding and development partner of the Round Top Heavy Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Project in West Texas, has purchased the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Extreme weather-related events and performance issues associated with some inverter-based resources, such as solar, wind and new battery or hybrid generation, may also have a potential negative impact on reliability. Developing sufficient flexible resources to support increasing levels of variable generation uncertainty.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins: Energy systems became globalized in the middle of the 20th century and then encountered global supply shocks, like the oil embargoes of the ’70s. Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A transmission network contains webs of connections, which create a reliable, redundant power-supply system of massive scale. At any given time, thousands of power plants supply just enough energy to transmission networks to meet demand. Fourth, interregional lines threaten utility companies’ dominance over the nation’s power supply.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

Toyota Motor North America has awarded MP2 Energy, a full-service power company based in The Woodlands, Texas, a five-year retail electricity contract to provide 100% renewable energy solutions to Toyota’s new North American headquarters in Plano, Texas. The five-year deal also supports 7.75

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

received a project award from Apex Compressed Air Energy Storage, LLC for the supply of equipment to be used in a new 317 MW compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility to be constructed near Tennessee Colony, Texas in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market. Dresser-Rand Group Inc.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Energy Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The vision of the technology and capital goods group is to move away from coal and coke via bridging technologies based on natural gas, as is already the case at the direct reduction plant in Texas, and finally on to the greatest possible use of green hydrogen. —Wolfgang Anzengruber, CEO of VERBUND.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As power grids everywhere increasingly rely on intermittent renewable energy, batteries and other forms of energy storage that can even out the bumps in supply and demand are taking on a crucial role. While lithium isn’t exactly in short supply, extracting it from the ground exacts a huge environmental cost. Well, let's think.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2014

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has deployed the first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) aggregation system qualified by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to manage charging activities for a fleet of electric delivery trucks. Click to enlarge. Electricity is difficult to store yet has to be available on demand.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

mb/d a year in the next five years, the IEA has repeatedly warned that an extended period of sharply lower oil investment could lead to a tightening in supplies. The key question for the future of the oil market is for how long can a surge in US shale supplies make up for the slow pace of growth elsewhere in the oil sector.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 3, 2022

It was a destructive, Category 4 hurricane, bringing catastrophic storm surges, heavy rainfall and intense, sustained winds. In 2017, flooding rains from Hurricane Harvey were strong enough to disable water supply infrastructure in Beaumont, Texas, leaving 118,000 residents without water.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

From June of 2014 until now, the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil has fallen approximately 57 percent. There is no doubt that supply has increased. Supply alone, however, doesn’t determine price. The question we should be asking ourselves is not if oil prices will recover, but when they will.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 11, 2022

After an aborted predawn attempt on October 11th, SpaceX technicians worked out some mystery kinks in crucial infrastructure located at Starship’s first (nearly) finished orbital launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas. Sitting a stone’s throw from the Gulf of Mexico, storms and high winds are not exactly uncommon.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. LNG-powered Offshore Supply Vessels. In the Gulf Coast Corridor, Shell plans to install a small-scale liquefaction unit (0.25

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are significant challenges to integrate this ‘digital thread’ across different manufactured technologies and across the supply chain. In the wind energy industry, doubling the length of a turbine blade can quadruple the amount of electricity generated.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. This project will develop and implement an Energy Internet microgrid, located in a large mixed-use infill development site in Austin, Texas.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That set the stage for a crypto gold rush in other countries, but supply chain disruptions and logistical bottlenecks have made capitalizing on the opportunity tough. When Chinese authorities cracked down on cryptocurrency mining in May, earnings soared for miners in other countries. Regulatory clarity is a huge factor now," he says.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2022

Although the idea of replacing a hunk of iron with a lightweight, ultrathin, easy-to-make, long-lasting PCB was attractive from the outset, it didn’t gain widespread adoption in its earliest applications inside lawn equipment and wind turbines a little over a decade ago. But in 2012 Boulder Wind Power put a PCB stator in a.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

Automotive revenue for Q2 included $23 million of powertrain sales to Daimler and Toyota, reflecting the start of production deliveries to Daimler for the Mercedes-Benz B Class Electric Drive and the wind down of sales to Toyota for the RAV4 EV. on a GAAP basis. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Once a few more parts are installed and a bit more plumbing completed, that “quick disconnect arm” or QD arm will help stabilize Super Heavy during Starship installation and connect the massive reusable upper stage to the pad’s tank farm and power supplies while still on the ground.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

The report also highlighted supply disruptions as one of the major energy events of the year. The “Arab Spring” affected oil and gas supplies—most notably the complete, albeit temporary, loss of Libyan supply—while the tragic Fukushima accident in Japan had knock-on effects for nuclear and other energy sources around the world.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, is supplying its Dynamic Power Resource on-site energy storage and power management system. Renewable or green power supplies 3% of Ford’s energy needs worldwide. Renewable or green power supplies 3% of Ford’s energy needs worldwide.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

And at a recent magnetics conference Ping Liu , a professor at the University of Texas in Arlington, asked other researchers what they thought of Tesla’s announcement. “No These magnets are weak and, more important, the world supply of cobalt is so fraught that they make up less than 2 percent of the permanent-magnet market.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 3, 2007

In Quest for Cleaner Energy, Texas City Touts Plug-In Car John J. Fialka Wall Street Journal March 26, 2007 AUSTIN, Texas -- Of all the plans cooked up by cities to combat pollution and global warming, the one hatched here is among the most ambitious -- and, some say, one of the more quixotic. Here's part of his story.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The initiative includes private sector partnerships, new funding from the Department, and enhanced analysis of the clean energy manufacturing supply chain that will guide DOE’s future funding decisions. University of Texas at Austin. As a part of its increased focus on manufacturing research and development, DOE also awarded $23.5

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