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A new AI-powered platform that helps utilities reduce wildfires just got a $1M injection

Baua Electric

Photo: Rhizome Rhizome , an extreme weather resilience planning platform for the power grid, has a new platform that helps utilities reduce wildfire risk. The AI-powered platform is called gridFirm (Fire Ignition Reduction and Mitigation), and it’s available for all electric utilities in the US, Canada, and Australia.

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BYD’s home city in China now has more supercharging plugs than gas pumps

Baua Electric

And these “superchargers” aren’t just DC fast chargers – they can charge EVs to 80% in just 10 minutes. According to data from the Southern Power Grid Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau, Shenzhen’s EV charging volume reached 670 million kilowatt-hours in Q1 2024, an 11% increase year-over-year. Get started here. –

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GM Energy will offer FreeWire’s unique charging solutions to fleets via new partnership

Baua Electric

FreeWire currently develops and sells a lineup of turnkey battery-integrated piles it calls Boost Chargers, as well as proprietary management software to help them operate after installation using existing low-voltage and low-power grid connections while still delivering DC EV charging performance levels.

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FreeWire Boost Power Pro EV chargers offer bidirectional capabilities and work during blackouts

Baua Electric

While the infrastructural world and local electric cals struggle to keep up with the rising number of EVs hitting the road, FreeWire has introduced a unique lineup of battery integrated chargers that are easier to install and utilize existing low-voltage and low-power grid connections while still delivering DC EV charging performance levels.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.

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A Comprehensive Guide to EV Charging Management Software Solution

Driivz

This software facilitates installing new charging stations, managing charging sessions, regulating draw from the grid, handling different billing scenarios and processing payment for charging, and most importantly, ensuring a seamless user experience for EV drivers regardless of locale or currency. and Japan.

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

Green Car Congress

million: ALD Technical Solutions is developing light-weight, easy-to-install, long-lasting, and cost-effective structural composite reinforcement system which will be installed and cured-in-place around existing Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced transmission lines to increase power capacity and power efficiency, and also decrease sag.

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