Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

California’s current strategy of recovering a myriad of fixed costs in electricity usage rates must change as the state uses more renewable electricity to power buildings and vehicles, according to the findings from a new report from the Energy Institute at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and non-profit think tank Next 10.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

what is renewable energy integration ? Renewable energy integration refers to the process of efficiently incorporating renewable energy sources into existing energy systems. Energy Storage: Renewable energy sources are often intermittent, meaning they don’t produce energy consistently.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Our communities and planet can’t afford to wait—we need “today solutions” to cut GHG emissions from these vehicles. Thankfully, renewable diesel offers a drop-in solution that delivers immediate environmental benefits and requires zero new investments. Driving towards a circular economy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

These innovations are all key elements in California’s efforts to transition to clean, renewable energy that is both reliable and affordable. Distributed Energy Resources. Even with such an important impact on the penetration of renewable energies, CCAs’ effects on the grid have been negligible so far.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2022

Stellantis has made a €50-million equity investment in lithium producer Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd. Upper Rhine Valley Brine Field (URBVF), showing license areas and key operations areas making up Vulcan’s integrated renewable geothermal energy and Zero Carbon Lithium business. —Carlos Tavares, Stellantis CEO. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As our Nation’s energy system continues to undergo dramatic transformations, there is a growing need for solutions that integrate and optimize all of our energy resources on the grid to provide Americans with the most reliable and affordable electricity possible. interactive Efficient Building: An energy?efficient

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

a nationwide distributor of propane, fuel oil and related products and services, as well as a marketer of natural gas and electricity, is purchasing a 39% stake in Oberon Fuels, a San Diego, CA-based development-stage producer of low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel. Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2019

Technology R&D includes hydrogen production (from diverse domestic resources, including renewable, fossil, and nuclear resources); infrastructure development (including hydrogen delivery and storage); and fuel cells for transportation, stationary, and portable applications.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Tri-gen system, owned and operated by FuelCell Energy, produces renewable electricity, renewable hydrogen, and water from directed biogas. FuelCell Energy and Toyota Motor North America announced the completion of the first-of-its-kind “Tri-gen system” at Toyota’s Port of Long Beach operations. Tri-gen produces 2.3-megawatts

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

The California Air Resources Board’s California Clean Fuel Reward program provides an instant price reduction of up to $750 at the point of sale or lease for eligible new plug-in electric vehicles at participating retailers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2019

The federal Biomass Research and Development (BR&D) Board unveiled a multi-agency strategy to accelerate innovative technologies that harness the nation’s biomass resources for affordable biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower. —Energy Department Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Daniel Simmons.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The Joint Proposal would replace the power produced by the two nuclear reactors at Diablo Canyon with a portfolio comprising energy efficiency, renewables and energy storage. It includes a PG&E commitment to a 55% renewable energy target in 2031—the highest such voluntary commitment by a major US energy company.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2022

billion) in funding to make zero-emission vehicles more affordable and to build a national network of charging stations. million over five years on a cash basis, starting in 2022-23, for Natural Resources Canada to provide public access to integrated data sets to inform critical mineral exploration and development; and.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This R&D will enable cost-competitive, drop-in renewable hydrocarbon fuels, bio-based products, and power from non-food biomass and waste feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2021

GCxN provides promising cleantech startups with technical resources to accelerate product commercialization while de-risking investment. Versogen (Wilmington, Del.) – Versogen is developing an electrolyzer technology that uses water and renewable energy to produce green hydrogen at scale in a reliable and affordable way.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

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? What are the mechanisms we need to balance a renewable grid?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the first joint agency report and a summary document examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045. About 36% of that comes from renewable sources, predominantly wind and solar.

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Plug in America

APRIL 24, 2024

The roadblocks to affordable and effective charging infrastructure that are sometimes posed by traditional utility models have the potential to be overcome through a new type of entity called a Tribal Energy Development Organization, or TEDO. Tribal innovation is also coming from the electrical grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a request for proposals for research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities leveraging the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) platform ( earlier post ) and supporting DOE’s H2@Scale vision for clean and affordable hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2018

With the help of this RFI, hydrogen use could be expanded and made more affordable across multiple applications such as energy storage, running large turbines at power plants, supporting grid flexibility and enabling baseload operation of nuclear plants, as well as increased renewable power generation. Demand-Sector Market Expansion.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The findings demonstrate the need for California to begin developing procurement and compensation models for long duration energy storage now to ensure that these resources can be deployed and online in the next 5-10 years, CESA said. The RFO seeks to have resources with a minimum discharge period of eight hours come online by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2021

The investment will support the university’s Lipid-to-Hydrocarbon (LTH) technology by developing two pathways to generate renewable jet fuel from a range of feedstocks, including waste materials from the restaurant and livestock industries. The University of Alberta, along with project partners Alberta Innovates, FORGE Hydrocarbons Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2022

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan —the third update to the state’s initial 2008 Scoping Plan. The draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan was developed by the California Air Resources Board in collaboration and coordination with multiple state agencies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Let’s learn from those dark days, and draw from our own resources, our own manpower and our own technology to compete in this ever-growing market. We cannot afford to miss this opportunity. We only have to look to the oil embargoes of the 1970s to realize our dependence on a foreign energy supply is cause for action.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The joint venture will accelerate the affordability and availability of green hydrogen through increased technological innovation, research and development, and manufacturing capacity. We will use Sinopec’s current industry resources and lay out the green hydrogen industry chain to achieve greater progress. Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2021

The research mission is intended to help drive down the cost of hydrogen production to below $2 per kilogram, making the fuel more affordable and helping to position Australia to lead the world in exporting hydrogen by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2019

The researchers started by analyzing the economics of hydrogen-, nitrogen-, and carbon-based fuels made by carbon-neutral pathways in a post-fossil world in which only water, air, and renewable electricity are available for fuel synthesis. They found that ammonia has the lowest source-to-tank energy cost by a significant margin.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

In recent years, a growing number of utilities responsible for clean water have moved from strict wastewater treatment to a broader model of water-resource management. With the right technology, it’s possible to convert wastewater into renewable power, along with chemicals, fertilizers, and reusable water.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

Co-Optima researchers have shown that all the high-performing boosted SI blendstocks can be produced from various resources, including conventional petroleum, natural gas, and renewable domestic feedstocks that offer significantly lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions and other benefits, such as increased domestic fuel supply and diversity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy intends to issue three sustainable transportation technologies funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) in Spring 2021.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory recently released an updated version of an online computer model meant to help bioenergy developers preserve critical resources. The model , called Water Analysis Tool for Energy Resources or WATER, has users from more than 35 US states.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2021

We present here not merely a catalyst with higher activity than other nickel catalysts that we tested, for an important renewable energy fuel, but also a broader strategy toward using affordable metals in a broad range of reactions. Somorjai, Jeffrey J.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

In its 2011 year-end report, Road Map to Renewal , the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (Jobs Council) made a number of recommendations to create jobs in the short run and improve US competitiveness over the long term. —“Road Map to Renewal”. America must do likewise.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The result is a more affordable battery from a faster, less wasteful process that uses less toxic material. The research was funded by the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office. NMA half cells show 200 mAh g −1 capacity with 96% capacity over 100 cycles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced the launch of the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) platform at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Action Plan looks at the current and future challenges and proposes actions to reduce Europe’s dependency on third countries, diversifying supply from both primary and secondary sources and improving resource efficiency and circularity while promoting responsible sourcing worldwide.

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