This off-grid island will switch from diesel to tidal energy [video]
Electrek
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The UK's Inyanga Marine Energy Group is going to build Southeast Asia's first tidal energy plant, which will power an off-grid island.
Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. China leads the pack with a 40-70% cost reduction in utility-scale solar, onshore wind, and offshore wind compared to other Asia Pacific markets.
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Deloitte: interest in hybrid vehicles still significantly outpacing full battery-electrics
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 6, 2022
However, mounting concerns about climate change and reducing emissions are consistently among the top two motivators for electric vehicle adoption among global consumers in the US, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India and Southeast Asia. Demand for public charging is highest in the Republic of Korea (38%) and Southeast Asia (29%).
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Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Through the JuiceNet platform, these facilities can be remotely controlled and aggregated for grid balancing purposes relying on unidirectional and bidirectional (vehicle-to-grid, V2G) electricity flows. eMotorWerks has deployed more than 25,000 smart-grid enabled charging stations to date.
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BASF breaks ground on syngas plant at Zhanjiang Verbund site in China
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
—Bir Darbar Mehta, Senior Vice President of Petrochemicals Asia Pacific at BASF Besides the above-mentioned raw materials, the syngas plant can utilize further feedstocks, ensuring more reliable production. Electricity will be supplied by the site-wide grid which is expected to be powered with 100 % renewable energy by 2025.
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EIA projects increases in global energy consumption and emissions through 2050
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2021
In its International Energy Outlook 2021 (IEO2021), EIA projects that strong economic growth, particularly with developing economies in Asia, will drive global increases in energy consumption despite pandemic-related declines and long-term improvements in energy efficiency. —EIA Acting Administrator Stephen Nalley.
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259 BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale
Green Car Congress
JULY 31, 2019
These include energy shifting (moving in time the dispatch of electricity to the grid, often from times of excess solar and wind generation), peaking in the bulk power system (to deal with demand spikes), as well as for customers looking to save on their energy bills by buying electricity at cheap hours and using it later.
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IDC Energy Insights: Worldwide smart grid spending to reach $46.4B in 2015
Green Car Congress
APRIL 9, 2012
Smart grid spending will increase 17.4% The Asia/Pacific region is forecast to experience the most growth in spending with a five-year CAGR of 33.7%. The Asia/Pacific region is forecast to experience the most growth in spending with a five-year CAGR of 33.7%.
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Mercom: battery storage, smart grid, and efficiency companies raise $210M in VC funding in Q1 2019, down 55.5% YoY
Green Car Congress
APRIL 23, 2019
A combined $210 million was raised by battery storage, smart grid, and energy efficiency companies in Q1 2019—a 55.5% Smart Grid. Total corporate funding in Smart Grid came to $32 million in 16 deals compared to $272 million in 10 deals in Q4 2018. Investments, Aurum Land, and Insitu Asia Holdings.
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Navigant ranks LG Chem and Samsung SDI as top Li-ion grid storage manufacturers
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2015
According to a new Leaderboard report from Navigant Research, LG Chem and Samsung SDI lead the Li-ion grid storage market in terms of strategy and execution. Although large, leading multinational players have emerged as market leaders, niche entrants are well-positioned to grow with the grid storage market, according to the report.
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150 EV Connect pilots first V2G charging project in the Midwest
Green Car Congress
MARCH 20, 2021
EV Connect, a California-based software-as-a-service company, is collaborating with the Indiana-based Battery Innovation Center (BIC) and Energy Systems Network (ESN) to deploy Indiana’s first large-scale Vehicle-to-Grid capable charging system to support school bus fleet, HD truck, and other customer segment applications.
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345 Leclanché secures $76M in funding, $51M facility for acquisitions and joint ventures in e-Transport and stationary grid-based storage markets
Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2018
This additional funding will allow us to capitalize on the exciting opportunities we see in the fast-growing markets of stationary grid-based storage and e-Transport worldwide.
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Daimler and partners deploying world’s largest 2nd-life EV battery storage unit for grid support
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
With an increasing supply of electricity from fluctuating renewable energies, such as wind farms or solar power stations, they can help stabilize power grids, levelling out energy fluctuations with virtually no loss—a role that is partly fulfilled by fossil power plants at present.
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Vancouver-based Ceylon Graphite granted industrial mining licence for M1 mining project in Sri Lanka
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2022
Although during the 2010s Sri Lanka has one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, it has tumbled into the worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, with spiraling inflation, and shortages of food, fuel and medicine. The Government of Sri Lanka granted the company’s wholly owned subsidiary Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd.
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GlobalData: Global battery energy storage market to grow by 7% to reach $13.13B by 2023
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2019
Asia-Pacific (APAC) and EMEA will be the dominant markets for battery energy storage systems over the forecast period 2019-2023. billion in 2023, as countries are increasing investments for improving their grid infrastructure and improving the market structure to attract foreign investments.
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Pike Research forecasts worldwide grid energy storage spending to reach $22B by 2021, down from 2010 forecast of $35B
Green Car Congress
JULY 18, 2011
In its new report Energy Storage on the Grid (ESG), Pike Research forecasts that global spending in the ESG market will reach a little over $22 billion over the next 10 years. Electric grids require balance in order to function properly. Energy storage on the grid is reaching a turning point. Earlier post.).
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EnerDel Partners with Mazda, Itochu, and Others for Smart Grid Integration Project in Japan
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 1, 2009
US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel will supply the advanced battery systems at the heart of a new project, based in Tsukuba City, Japan, combining electric vehicles (EVs), stationary grid storage, solar power and a rapid charging infrastructure a in a real-world operating environment. Earlier post.).
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Nel ASA receives purchase order for 20MW alkaline electrolyzer from steelmaker Ovako
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
The company has geographical presence in Europe, North America and Asia, and a steel product line that includes niche products and customized solutions. Therefore, Ovako embarked on the hydrogen project together with support from the Swedish Energy Agency, Volvo Group, Hitachi ABB Power Grids Sweden, H2 Green Steel and Nel Hydrogen.
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First carbon-neutral lithium extraction project to start in Germany
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2020
Vulcan will pump hot lithium-rich brine from production wells up to the surface, then use the co-generated geothermal energy to drive lithium extraction using its proprietary technique, with excess renewable energy as a saleable by-product that can be fed back into the grid. Batteries are a key technology of our time.
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Nissan LEAF first electric car to pass 400,000 unit sales
Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2019
These partnerships will leverage the ability of electric car batteries to store energy and share it with homes, businesses and power grids—making electric vehicles even more useful, while promoting efficient energy use. Since then, Nissan has formed partnerships around the world under its Nissan Energy initiative.
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NUS researcher links air pollution to increased residential electricity demand
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 19, 2020
Another study by Assoc Prof Salvo that was published in 2018 found that households consumed more water from the grid when exposed to air pollution. To do that, periodical land burning across Southeast Asia, which causes transboundary haze, was used as an instrument. It was necessary to separate cause from effect. —Prof Salvo.
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Enel enters public transit electrification market in US; partners with MassCEC for electric bus fleet
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Enel X will utilize its fully-networked, grid-responsive smart charging technology to enable Hopkinton Public School District to optimize charging sessions, thereby making a more efficient use of resources, while also providing energy services to the grid.
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321 Saft opens new subsidiary in Japan
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
headed by Philippe Ulrich, Saft Sales Director for Asia, is a major strategic step that underpins Saft’s strategy to become even closer to customers in Asia. The new subsidiary, under the name of Saft Japan Kabushiki Kaisha (K.K.) Saft Japan K.K.
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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs
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MAY 8, 2023
In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Then it takes the DC from the bus, or car, and converts it back to AC to provide power for the grid. That’s one way.
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FCAB releases US blueprint for lithium batteries
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2021
The US industrial base must be positioned to respond to this vast increase in market demand that otherwise will likely benefit well-resourced and supported competitors in Asia and Europe. The worldwide lithium-battery market is expected to grow by a factor of 5 to 10 in the next decade. —National Blueprint.
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Bloom Energy announces hydrogen-powered energy servers to make always-on renewable electricity a reality
Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2019
At peak times, some US states and countries already have more renewable power than their grids can handle. Bloom Energy anticipates early demand for hydrogen-powered fuel cells in Asia, where hydrogen production and utilization are being actively developed by countries including France, Japan, Korea and Australia.
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Ballard ships 500th ElectraGen-ME methanol fuel cell system for telecom backup
Green Car Congress
APRIL 13, 2013
In regions such as Southeast Asia and South Africa, where Ballard is actively engaged, electricity grids can be unreliable. As a result, telecom networks are vulnerable to frequent grid outages, impacting continuity of service to subscribers.
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Navigant Research forecasts rapid growth in V2G for ancillary services to 2022; $190.7M in frequency regulation revenue by then
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2013
In a new report, Navigant Research forecasts that global vehicle-to-grid (V2G)-enabled plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) servicing the ancillary services market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.3% Commercial fleets will be the foundation of the market, Navigant projects in the report “ Vehicle to Grid Technologies.”
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225 Study: 87% of world’s population in 2013 lived in areas exceeding WHO PM2.5 guidelines
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 6, 2015
increased by 20.4%, driven by trends in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China, according to the team’s findings. from 1990–2013 with increases in most countries—except for modest decreases in North America, parts of Europe, and several countries in Southeast Asia. Between 1990 and 2013, global population-weighted PM 2.5
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BNEF forecasts global energy storage market to grow 15-fold by 2030 to 411 GW/1194 GWh
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Regionally, Asia Pacific will lead storage build on a megawatt-basis by 2030, with momentum driven by the rapidly scaling market in China. But the Americas will add more capacity on a megawatt-hour basis as storage plants in the US usually have more hours of storage. It excludes pumped hydro storage.
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Electrovaya launches Li-ion residential energy storage system; 3 kWh – 20 kWh
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
The battery stores power from the grid or from solar panels and stores it for later household use. Asia is another key market, with an incomplete electric grid, and we believe there will be a large market opportunity in North America, where we’re paying twice as much for peak power and need a way to store cheap off-peak power.
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Pike Research forecasts energy storage systems for ancillary grid services to surpass $3.2B by 2021
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Pike Research forecasts that the key regions will be North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, particularly for frequency regulation, load following, spinning reserves, and short-duration renewables integration.
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Navigant: China leads global smart meter market with 68% of tracked installations
Green Car Congress
JULY 25, 2017
In Asia Pacific, the smart meter market remains fragmented, with a subset of the region’s major countries engaging in large-scale projects and many others showing limited to no activity. China continues to lead the global smart meter market through 1Q 2017 with upwards of 408 million meters installed, accounting for 68.3%
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IDTechEX sees battery swapping as winner in 2- and 3-wheeler markets of Asia-Pacific
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2022
These include long dwell times, high power demand from the grid, availability and reliability issues, and the need for end-users to deal with heavy cables, dirty connectors, and buggy user interfaces. Battery-swapping technology aims to address the shortcomings of conductive fast-charging. Two- and three-wheelers.
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Forsee Power begins light EV battery production in India
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JUNE 8, 2021
The Forsee as a manufacturer and supplier of energy management systems has its presence in Europe, Asia, and North America. India’s first grid-connected li-ion battery-based energy storage system. Forsee partners with OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) to enable their transition to electrification.
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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 16, 2020
Their data showed that southeast Asia is now home to some of the most sprawling cities on the planet – —and sprawl is getting worse. Gridded street networks, on the other hand, promote efficient, dense urban form in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru.
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195 Lux: Total is leading example of oil supermajor expanding into solar plus storage and distributed generation
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 9, 2016
Expanding into an area outside of the oil supermajors’ expertise is risky—batteries are a hard business to win even for industry veterans—but action is key as transportation and the grid increasingly march toward more electrification, Lux suggests. Asia challenges loom for battery acquirers.
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BNEF: net-zero road transport by 2050 still possible, but big push needed
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2022
Most of this is from electric two- and three-wheelers in Asia, but rising passenger EV sales push this to 2.5 The report also found that vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology can play a role in driving down power sector emissions and generating value for consumers. That’s up from 16 million at the end of 2021.
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ABI Research sees annual EV sales at 2.36M units worldwide in 2020; importance of autonomous EVs in Internet of Things
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 9, 2013
Asia-Pacific will exhibit the strongest growth, driven by mounting pollution issues in its many megacities; however, true mass-market uptake will only start happening in the next decade. According to ABI Research, the number of full electric vehicles (EVs) shipping yearly worldwide will increase from 150,000 in 2013 to 2.36
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Navigant: 2016 advanced battery shipments through Q3 = 323M cells and $3.8B in sales
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 26, 2017
The majority of the advanced batteries in 2016 have been manufactured in Asia Pacific and shipped around the world. According to a new report from Navigant Research, the shipment volume of advanced batteries for the first three quarters of 2016 equates to more than 323.5 million individual battery cells, 16.1 GWh of energy capacity, 61.4
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150 Shanghai ISSON Power Quality Co. deploys Maxwell ultracaps to power deep-water port electric cranes
Green Car Congress
MAY 26, 2013
This installation, one of the largest ultracapacitor installations in the world and the biggest in Asia, stabilizes voltage and smooths the fluctuation of the power output, for the electric cranes, allowing for uninterrupted operations. The ultracapacitor-based power system buffers those demand peaks to minimize their impact to the grid.
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199 Detroit Electric and Integrated Energy sign MOU on EV sales and V2X project in S. Korea’s Jeju Island
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 13, 2014
Integrated Energy and Detroit Electric also announced that both companies will implement a V2X pilot programme, including a demonstration site in Jeju Island to realize V2X technology, covering vehicle to grid, vehicle to home and vehicle to vehicle, in daily operations of a fleet of electric vehicles supplied by Detroit Electric.
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Tesla looks to ensure local suppliers’ production amid China’s power cuts
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AUGUST 18, 2022
Please reduce the power restriction time during the day for the suppliers mentioned above,” the letter read, according to a Nikkei Asia report. Sichuan is home to a good number of automotive suppliers, but as the province was hit with the worst heat wave in 60 years, its power grid has been overstretched.
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Wireless vs. wired
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JULY 4, 2022
With EVs now shipping across Asia with wireless charging installed, the availability of videos demonstrating the process ( Hyundai Genesis GV60 , FAW HongQi E-HS9, and our own WiTricity Halo™ wireless charging upgrades to come, “realness” isn’t really in question.
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