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Avangrid just broke ground on its first solar farm in California

Baua Electric

Camino Solar is adjacent to Avangrid’s 189 MW Manzana Wind Farm, which came online commercially in 2012. This project supports the nation’s transition to a clean energy economy by expanding access to clean energy, increasing reliability for the state’s power grid, creating jobs, and boosting local economies.”

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Siemens, Duke Energy and Ford demonstrate lower cost home smart charging technology for plug-ins; due on market next year

Green Car Congress

In 2012, Siemens was awarded $1.6 million in development funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to support research aimed at significantly reducing the current costs of electrical vehicle (EV) chargers and developing “smart” charging capabilities that support power grid efficiency and consumer demand.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

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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Ballard and Anglo American Platinum partner on a range of fuel cell applications in South Africa

Green Car Congress

A public launch event to be hosted by Anglo American Platinum is planned for May 9 in Rustenburg, South Africa, to be followed by above ground testing over the next several months. A finished product, once designed and tested, could supplement the power grid for homes and businesses in geographies where the grid is unreliable.

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Daimler & enercity storing new replacement EV batteries in working 15 MWh grid storage system; “living storage”

Green Car Congress

Daimler launched the third-generation smart fortwo electric drive in 2012; the next generation of the electric city car is now at the ready. The ESS can balance the energy fluctuations with practically no losses—a task that is currently undertaken predominantly by fast-turning turbines at the fossil power plants. Battery health.

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Chinas Largest EV Charging Stations Open in Shenzhen

Green Car Congress

To promote a green Universiade, all shuttle buses between the Universiade Village and main event venues will be green energy vehicles. Putting the Universiade Center charging station into service as scheduled, is just a specific demonstration of China Southern Power Grid Company’s contributions to promote a green Universiade.

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SwRI to demonstrate use of electric vehicles as part of emergency power microgrid under US Army SPIDERS program

Green Car Congress

independent from the bulk power grid (i.e., SPIDERS uses the conceptual designs of an Energy Surety Microgrid developed by Sandia National Laboratories, and has four specific goals for electric power surety at US military installations: To protect critical. infrastructure from power loss. infrastructure from power loss.

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