Green Car Congress
JULY 15, 2022
At the Zwickau vehicle plant, Volkswagen commissioned the first fast-charging park in Saxony supplied with energy largely from a power storage container (PSC). The PSC is an electricity storage unit and consists of 96 cell modules with a net capacity of 570 kWh. Residential areas are one example of where this could be used.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2018
While theoretically, increased use of wind and solar power also increases the need for balancing power, empirical evidence in Germany suggests otherwise. Since 2008, installed wind and solar capacity in Germany tripled. At the same time, balancing power reserves decreased by 20%. The German Balancing Paradox.
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Centrica closed the vast Rough storage facility in 2017 prompting concerns about gas pricing. Billions of pounds are being spent on installing ‘smart’ energy reading meters in homes that will leave householders out of pocket. This should be a big push to instal more solar and in turn cut or generation needs.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. “We have 10,000 engineers out there every day, installing and servicing boilers,&# he added.
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