Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Seeking to slash CO 2 emissions from its North American manufacturing operations, Honda has entered into long-term virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar power that will cover more than 60% of the electricity that Honda uses in North America. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

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. The team will assess available resources, prospective hydrogen users, and delivery infrastructure, such as existing pipelines that supply hydrogen to refineries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

British adventurers Chris and Julie Ramsey will cross 14 countries, through Canada, North, Central and South America to Punta Arenas in Chile before travelling to the edge of the Antarctic continent, then onward to the South Pole. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The technology company supplies automotive manufacturers with electric motors for different vehicle types—from hybrid and electric axle drives for electric passenger cars to electric central drives for commercial vehicles. Another plant in North America is currently under construction and will go into operation in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2016

Hecate Canada Storage II, LLP, an emerging Canadian Project Development and Electrical Systems Integrator, has selected Switzerland-based Leclanché as the exclusive partner to provide 13MW / 53MWh Li-ion battery Energy Storage Systems in one of the largest Grid Ancillary Services energy storage projects in North America.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 12, 2024

Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com Japan’s UBE Corporation will build an EV battery chemicals factory in Louisiana to set up a US EV battery supply chain – and compete with China. The Tokyo-headquartered company has formed a new company called UBE C1 Chemicals America (UCCA) for its new US venture. Get started here. –ad*

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

ReElement Technologies, a rare earth element and critical battery metal producer, has partnered with EDP Renewables North America, a renewable energy supplier, to recycle rare earth materials for wind turbines and EV motors.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The grants will support the development of public transportation electrification in the Commonwealth and coincide with the company’s entrance into public transit electrification in the US with the launch of a portfolio of turnkey services, including e-bus infrastructure planning, procurement, energy supply and management, and software.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Southern California Edison (SCE) opened the largest battery energy storage project in North America—the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project—to modernize the grid to integrate more clean energy. The project is strategically located in the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area that is projected to generate up to 4,500 MW of wind energy by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies. This system recognizes all the requirements of consumers so that it can stagger and manage their power supply intelligently. App on their smartphone.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2022

gigawatts of solar and wind projects installed in South America, Europe and Asia, the Baden-Württemberg-based company has extensive experience in developing financeable turnkey renewable energy projects, from concept to implementation, including investor sourcing. With more than 4.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2020

Building on the UK’s leading electronics research, the resulting electric drive system exceeded the latest permanent magnet motor performance while simultaneously removing the need for both rare-earth magnets and copper windings, delivering a package both cost effective and recyclable at its end of life.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The composite blocks can be made from low-cost and locally sourced materials, including the excavated soil at the construction site, but can also utilize waste materials such as mine tailings, coal combustion residuals (coal ash), and fiberglass from decommissioned wind turbine blades.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

MP Materials owns and operates Mountain Pass, the only integrated rare earth mining and processing site in North America. They are essential inputs to many critical defense and commercial technologies, particularly permanent magnets instrumental to the performance of electric vehicles, wind turbines, drones, and missile systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2015

Toshiba Corporation has received an order to supply a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) for a power frequency regulation project in Hamilton, Ohio. The project will be carried out by Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas and Renewable Energy Systems Americas, a US renewable energy developer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

While NERC’s risk scenario analysis shows adequate resources and energy for most of North America, Texas, New England, MISO and parts of the West are at an “elevated risk” of energy emergencies. for this summer as a result of adding new wind, solar, and battery resources. ERCOT’s anticipated reserve margin increased from 12.9%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This is due to a combination of sequential gains across most end use markets, an unprecedented and incentivized acceleration in copper-intensive renewable electricity wind power generation projects, and the start-up of multiple new large-scale wire rod plants that has expanded the industrial consuming base.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2010

reported that sales of BOOSTCAP ultracapacitor products for wind energy applications through the first three quarters of 2010 are running more than 40% ahead of wind-related sales in the same period last year, and estimates that more than 13,000 BOOSTCAP-equipped turbines are now in operation worldwide. Maxwell Technologies Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This project has the potential to greatly increase the production of raw titanium metal in North America, while strengthening the security of supply for this critical mineral for Canadian and US manufacturers. The plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Photo: Enel North America Power-hungry Texas needs solar and battery storage to help meet demand and balance the grid, so its largest utility-scale storage operator is delivering. Enel North America has started constructing the Ables Springs Solar + Storage Project in Kaufman County, near Dallas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2021

Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to define an integrated solution for the production, supply, management and use of green hydrogen for port areas and long-range maritime transport.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

billion loan in support of the world’s largest wind farm to date. The loan will finance the Caithness Shepherds Flat wind project, an 845 MW wind-powered electrical generating facility located in eastern Oregon sponsored by Caithness Energy LLC and General Electric (GE) Energy Financial Services.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Extreme weather-related events and performance issues associated with some inverter-based resources, such as solar, wind and new battery or hybrid generation, may also have a potential negative impact on reliability. Developing sufficient flexible resources to support increasing levels of variable generation uncertainty.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

Today, more than 4,300 kilometers already exists for hydrogen transportation with more than 90% located in Europe and North America, the company notes. Hydrogen pipelines are already used to supply industrial hubs (at petrochemical plants for example). Mt of local supply with startup by 2030 (or only 2.1 Additionally, 3.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2019

HDF Energy’s Renewstable power plant is a multi-MW baseload system enabling large-scale storage of intermittent renewable wind or solar energy in the form of hydrogen through the process of electrolysis as well as electricity generation using that hydrogen feedstock together with a fuel cell system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

ABB, 4R Energy, Nissan North America, Inc. NNA) and Sumitomo Corporation of America have formed a partnership to evaluate the reuse of lithium-ion battery packs that power the Nissan LEAF. (4R Cutaway of Nissan LEAF battery pack. Click to enlarge. A hat-tip to Tomas!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

The report goes on to model the impact of this on a global electricity system increasingly penetrated by low-cost wind and solar. The remaining significant markets include India, Germany, Latin America, Southeast Asia, France, Australia and the UK. Batteries will increasingly be chosen to manage this dynamic supply and demand mix.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

European Energy is a global renewable energy company and project developer (wind, solar and Power to X). It will also develop e-methanol projects in Latin America and the United States that will have a capacity to produce up to 200-300,000 tonnes annually of e-methanol starting in 2025/2026. European Energy (Denmark). Orsted (Denmark).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. LNG-powered Offshore Supply Vessels. In the Gulf Coast Corridor, Shell plans to install a small-scale liquefaction unit (0.25

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2023

The EU today unveiled two draft laws in response to the US subsidies that it fears are luring European cleantech companies to North America. The proposed Critical Raw Materials Act will help the bloc secure supply of the metals needed to […]

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

These valuable components are not confined to solar and wind generator applications; they extend to the EVs we drive and their infrastructure. Bidirectional components have grown to affect our everyday lives, and this technology is now contributing to the development of sustainable, power-independent microgrid communities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2011

the Western hemisphere’s only producer of rare earth oxides (REO) and the largest REO producer outside of China, will supply Hitachi Metals with rare earth magnetic materials, including Didymium (a mix of neodymium and praseodymium) metal and alloy, as well as Lanthanum Oxide. Global rare earths supply and demand.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California’s main grid for 69 of the past 75 days. For 45 days straight and 69 of 75, California #WindWaterSolar supply has exceeded demand part of each day. Yesterday he posted: Jacobson notes that supply exceeds demand for “0.25-6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Wind energy, including on- and offshore systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Global wind energy capacity grew by 28.8% GW at the end of 2008, according to the Global Wind Energy Council. More than 27 GW of new wind power generation capacity came online in 2008, 36% more than in 2007. New US wind energy installations totalled 8,358 MW for a total installed capacity of 25,170 MW. billion (US$46.8

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

Lexus has introduced the new Lexus NX compact utility, first unveiled in Beijing ( earlier post ) to North America. Drivers can optimize fuel economy using Eco or Normal modes in Drive Mode Select, or use Shiftmatic in Sport mode to better enjoy a winding road. 2015 Lexus NX 300h. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Photo: EDF Renewables North America Renewables provided over 22.7% of US electricity supply last year. of the total) and should surpass it within the next few months to become the second largest renewable energy source, behind only wind. drop in power from wind turbines as well as 5.9% rooftop) solar increased by 16.1%

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