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Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

by Toby Gill, CEO, Intelligent Power Generation. With battery storage able to provide a unique role in balancing a renewable electricity grid, Toby Gill, CEO of Intelligent Power Generation, asks could innovations in green hydrogen and biofuel technologies contribute to a more optimized and economical energy mix?

Grid

Grid Power Powered Fuel

WeaveGrid and Wallbox to offer utility-managed smart charging, starting in Colorado – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

The program optimizes residential EV charging times to align with low power grid demand and high availability of renewable energy (mainly wind power in Colorado). Wallbox charger owners who enroll in the program can receive cash incentives and save money by charging at low-cost times.

Colorado

Colorado Charging Power Grid Low Cost

Nissan and Endesa collaborating to deliver vehicle-to-grid systems to market

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The two companies have agreed to collaborate on the following activities: Introduction of V2G services in the European market; Exploring the use of second-life EV batteries for stationary applications (including households, buildings, grid); and. Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers.

Grid

Grid Nissan Market Vehicles

Argonne and University of Illinois to form Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2019

As a consequence, the Midwestern states have some of the highest levels of renewable energy on their grids. The effort will support DOE’s H2@Scale initiative to enable affordable large scale hydrogen production, storage, transport and utilization across multiple sectors.

Illinois

Illinois Universal Hydrogen South Dakota

Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. —Philippe Boisseau, President Total Gas & Power.

MIT

MIT Batteries Battery Energy Storage

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

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. Hyzon Motors , one of the few firms working on ultraheavy trucks powered by fuel cells. Why a hydrogen truck?

Australia

Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Energy Solar

Four Major Trends in the eMobility Industry in 2021

Driivz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Early adopters of EV fleets have already realized 20-25% cost savings from greater efficiency, more affordable “fueling” and reduced maintenance. Sources of clean and renewable energy from solar and wind are increasingly being integrated into the grid by utilities around the world. Looking ahead.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Tax Credit Grid

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. National Renewable.

Energy

Energy Clean Cleaning Grid

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Honeywell (Plymouth, Minnesota). Survalent Technology Inc.

Commercial

Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York

ARPA-E announces $27M for transformational power electronics technologies

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

These devices are critical to infrastructure because all electronics—from laptops to electric motors—rely on them to control or converted electrical energy from a high voltage to low a voltage in order to properly operate. High Quality, Low-Cost GaN Single Crystal Substrates for High Power Devices.

Power

Power Powered Low Cost Universal

ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In particular, IONICS projects will work to improve energy storage and conversion technologies in three categories: transportation batteries, grid-level storage, and fuel cells. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory team seeks to find glassy lithium-ion conductors that are stable and can be fully integrated into battery cells at a low cost.

Li-ion

Li-ion Polymer Batteries Battery

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

Green Car Congress

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).

Africa

Africa Supplies Emissions Poland

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. Establishing dealer network.

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV

EV Driven

Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

WeaveGrid and Wallbox to offer utility-managed smart charging, starting in Colorado – Charged EVs

Nissan and Endesa collaborating to deliver vehicle-to-grid systems to market

Argonne and University of Illinois to form Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition

Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Four Major Trends in the eMobility Industry in 2021

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

ARPA-E announces $27M for transformational power electronics technologies

ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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