2019, Battery, Energy Storage and Power Grid

Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Stealth-mode electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. —SPARKZ Inc. CEO Sanjiv Malhotra. SPARKZ Inc.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Lithium Ion Energy Batteries

Tesla-powered Slovenian company launches third–and largest–Megapack project

Teslarati

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A Tesla-powered Slovenian energy company has just launched its third–and largest–Megapack project to date, helping support 70 percent of the country’s energy grid. Slovenia’s NGEN first started utilizing Tesla Megapacks for energy storage and grid stabilization in 2019.

Companies

Companies Power Powered Tesla

UPS-led SEUL consortium switches on smart-grid fleet charging solution in London; maxing out on EVs without expensive grid upgrades

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

A UPS-led consortium has deployed new smart-grid charging technology in London that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) without the need for the expensive upgrade to the power supply grid. A key part of this initiative is the use of onsite energy storage batteries.

Grid

Grid London Fleet Charging

H2FUTURE building world’s largest green hydrogen pilot plant; targeting the steel industry

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Industrial Industry Green

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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AUGUST 31, 2020

But Total is not just content to compete in the traditional renewable energy arena of wind and solar but is also giving Tesla Inc. NASDAQ:TSLA) a run for its money thanks to its 2016 acquisition of battery company Saft. Further, natural gas can be used to keep the power grid stable as solar and wind power fluctuate.

Oil

Oil Renewable Wind Gas-Electric

Audi involved in EEBUS standard for intelligent connection of EVs and buildings

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

At the “Plugfest E-Mobility” at the Audi plant in Brussels, developers are testing cross-industry compatibility before the EEBUS standard for energy communication is introduced in February. The electric car will play an important role as a power consumer in the digital energy world.

Connect

Connect Connected Audi Standards

How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

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. That would mean installing vast amounts of energy storage, such as. unprecedented and deadly winter freeze.

Power Grid

Power Grid Grid Power Powered

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

The plant will start operating in 2019. In addition to lower conversion losses, direct current based grids offer further considerable potential, among other things in the own use of regenerative energy, which can be generated, for example, via photovoltaic systems on the production halls.

Germany

Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies

North American Grid Operators Study Concludes 1M Plug-in Electric Vehicles May Be On the Road by 2020; Staggered Charging Can Reduce Potential Negative Impact on Grid

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

A group of US and Canadian power grid operators, who manage most of the North American bulk electric grid collectively, studied the effect that plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) would have on the electric power grid. PJM); and the Southwest Power Pool, Inc. ISO RTO operating regions. Click to enlarge.

Grid

Grid Plug-in Plug Electric Vehicles

11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

China's Big Hydro Plans China is in the midst of a gigantic buildup of hydro-energy capabilities. The world’s largest pumped-energy-storage station—a technique that stores energy by pumping it uphill to a reservoir—is set to complete phase two of its construction in 2023.

Engine

Engine San Francisco Wind Iceland

PNNL study finds that PHEVs and BEVs could serve as feasible resource to offset grid imbalances caused by integration of large amounts of intermittent wind generation

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficThis scenario is highly desirable to automotive manufacturers, who harbor great concerns about battery warranty if vehicle-to-grid discharging is allowed. V2GFull varies not only the charging of the vehicle battery, but also can vary the discharging of the battery back into the power grid.

Wind

Wind Grid PHEV Power Grid

Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Connect Connected Solar

How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal

Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

As India’s GDP and per capita income continue to climb, so too will its energy consumption. The country’s electricity consumption in 2019 was nearly six times as great as in 1990. As renewable energy capacity grows, the only way to drastically reduce coal in the electricity mix is by adding energy storage.

Coal

Coal Energy Storage Wind India

BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF). Source: BNEF.

Africa

Africa Supplies Emissions Poland

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Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

Tesla-powered Slovenian company launches third–and largest–Megapack project

UPS-led SEUL consortium switches on smart-grid fleet charging solution in London; maxing out on EVs without expensive grid upgrades

H2FUTURE building world’s largest green hydrogen pilot plant; targeting the steel industry

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

Audi involved in EEBUS standard for intelligent connection of EVs and buildings

How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

North American Grid Operators Study Concludes 1M Plug-in Electric Vehicles May Be On the Road by 2020; Staggered Charging Can Reduce Potential Negative Impact on Grid

11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

PNNL study finds that PHEVs and BEVs could serve as feasible resource to offset grid imbalances caused by integration of large amounts of intermittent wind generation

Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected

How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal

BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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