Affordable France Solar Wind 
Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2019
Despite those periods of excess wind and solar power, because the ability to store electricity for more than a few hours is lacking, dispatchable power from the combustion of fossil fuels continues to bridge gaps in supply. At peak times, some US states and countries already have more renewable power than their grids can handle.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2020
The project will generate around 200 high-skilled jobs in France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region to develop, qualify and commercially scale up new, high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Our purpose is to offer citizens mobility options that are clean, safe and affordable.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 9, 2016
France-based Total is the first oil supermajor aggressively to enter new areas of business including solar plus storage and distributed generation, notes Lux Research in a new report : “Superpower Darwinism: What Big Oil Can and Cannot Do About Total’s Billion-Dollar Battery Move.”. It’s not just the battery anymore.
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. This was plain wrong.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
This entity will offer a simple, fast and cost-optimized logistics scheme thanks to industrial management in the factory, for the Île-de-France commercial network (RRG, dealerships, Renault Occasions/RVO). The second life market is booming today with the demand now greater than the supply as they are more affordable than new batteries.
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2011
Earlier this year, the company announced it had received financing from France’s Total—which earlier had funded research on the technology at MIT ( earlier post )—and from a personal investment by Bill Gates. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT. —Luis Ortiz, LMBC’s President.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 25, 2022
The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process.
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