Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2020

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Executive Officer has certified the 2020 annual update to the carbon intensities (CI) of the lookup table pathways for a) California Average Grid Electricity Used as a Transportation Fuel in California and b) Electricity Supplied under the Smart Charging or Smart Electrolysis Provision. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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Teslarati

APRIL 18, 2022

Today, Pacific Gas and Electric announced that it has commissioned its 182.5-megawatt megawatt Tesla Megapack battery energy storage system (BESS) located at Moss Landing, which officially certifies the project to join the company’s grid. MW for up to four hours during times of high demand.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

billion in 17 deals compared to the $543 million in 30 deals in 1H 2018, according a new report from Mercom Capital Group. Announced debt and public market financing activity in the first half of 2019 ($547 million in five deals) was 275% higher compared to the first half of 2018 when $146 million was raised in six deals. Smart Grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

A 2018 study by a team from Argonne National Laboratory (Lee et al. evaluated well-to-gate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with by-product hydrogen from chlor-alkali processes in comparison with hydrogen from the conventional centralized natural gas steam methane reforming (central SMR) pathway. 2018.02.132.

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EV Connect

APRIL 17, 2023

Can the power grid actually handle that many electric cars? The capacity is there, but to truly handle this new surge in EV grid demand, it will take planning on the part of utility companies across the U.S. million it forecasted in 2018. grid produced in 2020. Can the Power Grid Handle the Growing EV Demand?

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Power Grid Grid Electric Cars Power 59

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Conventional wisdom may suggest that these storage systems—essentially household batteries such as the Tesla Powerwall—could be instrumental in weaning ourselves off greenhouse gas-emitting energy sources. Would greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power system go down, and at what economic cost? 8b03834.

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Energy Storage Carbon Emissions Energy 275

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

Aligned with that vision, Air Products began work in 2018 on the core of this world-scale energy complex in Edmonton, which will begin with a transformative $1.3 The new facility will capture more than 95% of CO 2 produced by generating hydrogen from the feedstock natural gas and store it safely back underground (i.e., blue hydrogen).

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Hydrogen Production Energy Canada 450

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. DOE will sponsor activities to encourage safe and environmentally responsible development and use of domestic petroleum and natural gas resources. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2018

TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.; Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC); SHIZUOKA GAS Co., Scope of demonstration system to be built in FY 2018. Stabilizing the power grid requires the use of thermal power but this incurs costs in owning and maintaining such power generating plants. TEPCO); TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Analysts at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) have reviewed recent research into the greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. —Hall and Lutsey (2018). Hall and Lutsey 2018. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2017

Audi’s two latest natural-gas alternatives in the midsize category—the new A4 Avant g-tron ( earlier post ) and the new A5 Sportback g-tron—are now available for order in Europe. kilograms of gas per 100 kilometers, with CO 2 emissions of 102 grams per kilometer (164.2 mi) on natural gas in the NEDC cycle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

In the future thyssenkrupp’s electrolysis plants will be able to act as large-scale buffers to stabilize the power grid and compensate fluctuations quickly and flexibly. Another central requirement is the need to stabilize the power grid against short-term fluctuations. With this we have achieved a further important goal.

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Water Hydrogen Market Production 337

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

An analysis of near-term spending plans on renewables by the biggest oil and gas companies shows that real investments in renewable energy will continue to pale in comparison to capex plans for greenfield fossil fuel projects. Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2020

ITM Power manufactures integrated hydrogen energy solutions for grid balancing, energy storage and the production of renewable hydrogen for transport, renewable heat and chemicals. In October 2019, the Company announced the completion of a £58.8-million

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2019

Ethanol produced from sugarcane is one of the most carbon-efficient biofuels available globally, with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions around 70% lower than conventional hydrocarbon transport fuels. In 2018, the two businesses produced a total of around 2.2 In 2018, the two businesses produced a total of around 2.2

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Brazil Carbon 2018 Grid 339

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

We see $548 billion being invested in battery capacity by 2050, two thirds of that at the grid level and one third installed behind-the-meter by households and businesses. The result will be renewables eating up more and more of the existing market for coal, gas and nuclear. NEO 2018 sees $11.5 BNEF sees $1.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. thousand in 2017.

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Coal Clean Cleaning Financing 243

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2021

The plan is to produce green hydrogen exclusively using electricity from renewable sources direct from the grid in Freienbach. The possibility of admixing hydrogen into the existing gas distribution network of EW Höfe will also be examined. EW Höfe AG is the largest combination utility in the Lower and Upper Lake Zurich region.

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Switzerland Hydrogen Green Energy 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

In parallel with the advancing electrification of its fleet, Volkswagen Group and its brands continue to rely on CNG (compressed natural gas) as an alternative drive technology for decarbonizing road transport; Volkswagen Group[ has revised and expanded its product range again with this in mind. Società Nazionale Metanodotti).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

2018, up from $3.2 The process separates hydrogen atoms from the hydrocarbon molecules and produces significant amounts of byproduct hydrogen gas. Local power generation is becoming more valued as people realize that the cost of conditioning electricity for the grid is an unnecessary expense in local power environments.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US. of greenhouse gas emissions to 3% by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Also, they typically charge during the day, when a greater quantity of solar energy is powering the grid. The study drew from Uber and Lyft data on travel behavior and public charging use in California between early 2017 through late 2018, a time of rapid growth for ride-hailing services. That issue is an active area of research.

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Davis Personal Emissions Cleaner 239

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2022

In January 2018, the California Public Utilities Commission approved a multiparty settlement to shut down fully and permanently the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant when the current federal license period for the plant’s second unit expires in 2025. Diablo Canyon Power Plant is a nuclear plant located in San Luis Obispo, operated by PG&E.

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Power Powered California Carbon 305

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2019

Electricity production in Germany, 2018. Unfortunately, due to our grid situation, electric cars are still too early for this strategic goal in the sense of German climate protection efforts. The researchers carried out their calculations based on a Mercedes-Benz C 220 d diesel and the new Tesla Model 3. —Buchal et al.

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Germany CO2 Power Powered 406

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Québec and California have each set ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets that affect the grid as well as the transportation sector. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 set a target of reducing state greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. of sales in 2018, climbing to 15.5%

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Energy Storage Transportation San Francisco Energy 191

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Plug&Charge feature is enabled by advanced vehicle-to-grid communication technology that utilizes encrypted security measures. Electrify America offers the fastest charging technology available today to provide charging speeds of up to 150 and 350 kilowatts, a breakthrough for the network that debuted in May 2018.

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America Charging Plug Plug-in 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2020

Since signing a strategic agreement in August 2018, Bosch and Ceres have been successfully collaborating in the development of fuel-cell stacks for stationary applications. Bosch and Ceres Power are pressing ahead with the development of fuel-cell technology for potential new power systems. Picture: Bosch.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

As part of the EU-funded H2FUTURE project, partners voestalpine, VERBUND, Siemens, Austrian Power Grid, K1-MET and TNO are researching into the industrial production of green hydrogen as a means of replacing fossil fuels in steel production over the long term. In the business year 2018/19, the Group generated revenue of €13.6

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Hydrogen Production CO2 Power Grid 221

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

Deep declines in wind, solar and battery technology costs will result in a grid nearly half-powered by the two fast-growing renewable energy sources by 2050, according to the latest projections from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Electricity demand is set to increase 62%, resulting in global generating capacity almost tripling between 2018 and 2050.

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Wind Solar Emissions Batteries 207

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2020

The new Olympic Class ferries, which will have the capacity to carry 144 cars and 1,500 passengers each, mark a new era for the Washington State transport operator in the shift toward technologies that enable significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and fuel use. Image: Vigor.

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Energy Storage Hybrid Washington Energy 221

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The team’s first step in February 2018 was to use GRIDSMART cameras to create an image dataset of vehicle classes. Lacking an available city-wide grid of intersections equipped with GRIDSMART traffic lights, Karnowski’s team instead turned to computer simulations to test their system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2018

To help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles in California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has launched its new EV Charge Network program. In the first quarter of 2018, PG&E will begin installing new EV chargers in partnership with business customers, including at the first participating customer Merced College.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

The British Columbia Government Ministries of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and Jobs, Trade and Technology has awarded ITM Power a grant to undertake a Power-to-Gas (P2G) feasibility study. The project is due to commence in Q2 2018 and has a duration of 12 months. and G&S Budd Consulting Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The advancement is aimed at accelerating the production of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions for the power grid. Global battery demand is expected to increase to around 14 times 2018 levels of 184 gigawatt hours, or GWh, to more than 2,600 GWh in 2030, according to a report by the World Economic Forum’s Global Battery Alliance.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas. The end result is high purity hydrogen and a small amount of biogenic carbon dioxide, which is not additive to greenhouse gas emissions. But, until now, it has been too expensive to adopt at scale.

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Waste Hydrogen Green California 448

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

unveiled PowerDrive, a suite of plug-in hybrid electric powertrain solutions spanning light-, medium- and heavy-duty applications, at the 2018 IAA Commercial Vehicle Show. The vehicle is also configured with exportable grid-quality electric power to recharge vehicles and a recovery crane operating on either electric or engine power take-off.

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Plug-in Hybrid Kenworth Plug 281

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

UPS also works with manufacturers, governments and utilities to leverage innovative technology, such as smart grid charging in London that enables the company’s electric-vehicle fleet to charge without an expensive power supply grid update.

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