Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

Toyota has commissioned Victoria’s first commercial-grade permanent hydrogen production, storage and refuelling facility at its former manufacturing site at Altona in Melbourne’s west. Power for the electrolyzer is drawn from a combination of an 87kW solar array, a 100kW battery storage and the grid, depending on what’s available at the time.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and BMW of North America (BMW) are collaborating to test how vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology can serve as a solution to offset growing demand on the power grid, improve reliability for electric customers, and maximize the usage of renewable energy. In California 1.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

According to Rystad Energy research, Spain, France, and Germany are among the countries committed or considering cross border pipelines to facilitate energy flows, while the UK with its extensive gas grid finds itself in a strong position to switch from natural gas to hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

This transition will start in 2025, when the turbines will be commercially guaranteed capable of using a mix of 30% hydrogen and 70% natural gas fuel. The power plant is connected to the Los Angeles power grid by an existing high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission line.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A BESS is a type of technology that utilizes batteries to store and supply reliable electricity when needed at desired levels and quality. If your energy comes primarily from renewables, the BESS enables you to store that energy for times when renewables may not be available, like at night for when solar panels are inactive.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

times the volume to store energy versus diesel, and hydrogen requires 11 times the volume, while lithium batteries require 50 to 75 times. The energy coming from the nation’s electric power grid still emits large amounts of criteria and GHG emissions. The reason for this is that RNG requires 2.5

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. grid, but the rising number of EVs will test the local grid’s reliability at many of the 3,000 electric-distribution utilities in the United States , which themselves own more than 5.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2012

A new policy brief published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) International Transport Forum (ITF) notes that existing electricity systems will need to be reconfigured to support the widespread adoption of electric mobility and suggests that Smart Grid technologies and EVs and EVs could be mutually beneficial.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Eos Z3 battery module Z3 battery modules store electrical energy through zinc deposition. The issuance of conditional commitment by the DOE was preceded by legal, technical and commercial due diligence by the LPO to evaluate the loan and the project’s potential to meet market demand and commercial and environmental benchmarks.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

a provider of solar and battery power systems that enable fully-electric Transport Refrigeration Units (eTRUs) for Class 8 commercial trailers. eNow has pioneered the development of mobile solar battery charging systems to the commercial fleet market since 2011. XL Fleet Corp.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The SCALEUP program provides further funding to previous ARPA-E teams that have been determined to be feasible for widespread deployment and commercialization domestically. will work to commercialize hybrid electric propulsion technologies for aircraft. CorePower Magnetics, Inc. Award amount: $5,000,000). Award amount: $12,000,000).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Through Power to X (PTX), the conversion of renewable energy to other usable forms, green e-methanol is an optimal solution for Denmark to store excess renewable power, stabilize its national power grid, and produce a sustainable carbon neutral renewable fuel.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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Driivz

AUGUST 18, 2021

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, part of smart energy management , will help stabilize that demand – if we make V2G easy, convenient, and profitable for drivers to use. V2G returns the energy stored in EV batteries to the grid. EV owners don’t view their cars as devices that store energy for someone else’s use.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Nissan’s UK-based European R&D facility, Nissan Technical Centre Europe (NTCE) has become the first Nissan entity in the company’s network of European facilities to install vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. In August, Nissan and Enel secured their first commercial V2G customer in Europe. Earlier post.).

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Driivz

MAY 10, 2022

Part 1 of this two-part blog discusses the challenges facing electric utilities – both electricity generators and grid operators – with electric vehicle (EV) adoption coinciding with the electrification of buildings, heating, and industry. These capabilities are available and in use today. . Leveraging EVs as grid assets.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2022

V), a sodium-ion battery can greatly increase the amount of energy that can be stored in a given weight or volume. However, its fairly rapid performance decline with charge-discharge cycling has stymied commercialization. In addition, when cycled at high voltage (4.5 —Guiliang Xu.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Innovative EV charging developer FreeWire Technologies is improving its flagship lineup of Boost chargers to offer an even more flexible and capable lineup that now includes bidirectional capabilities, power sharing, and site backup should the local grid encounter any power outages.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The Nissan/Eaton partnership offers xStorage Home, xStorage Buildings and xStorage Grid-scale products. xStorage Home comes with solar panel inverters already integrated; if a home is equipped with solar panels, the consumer can connect directly to xStorage Home, storing and then powering the home using renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

The Renewable Energy and Efficient Energy Projects Loan Guarantee solicitation is intended to support technologies that will have a catalytic effect on commercial deployment of future projects, are replicable, and are market ready. Advanced Grid Integration and Storage. Drop-in Biofuels. Waste-to-Energy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. A full list by state of the all the projects is available here. DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492).

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CN EV Post

APRIL 9, 2023

The Megafactory is planned to initially produce up to 10,000 units of commercial energy storage batteries per year, with an energy storage scale of nearly 40 GWh, and the product will be available to the global markets.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

Silicon Valley-based Sprig Electric is among the first electrical contractors in the nation to pair Tesla’s Powerpack stationary battery system ( earlier post ) with a 350 kW commercial rooftop photovoltaic (PV) system to optimize energy savings. Customers can use the battery’s stored electricity to reduce peak demand.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

RTE recently performed a detailed assessment of engineering designs for capturing, transporting and storing CO 2 , and integrating CCS with ethanol production. RTE proposes capturing the high purity CO 2 stream (>99%) from the ethanol fermentation tank via a commercially available liquefaction system. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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Driivz

MAY 3, 2023

V2H, or vehicle-to-home, uses smart EV charging and bidirectional (two way) charging to transfer energy stored in the battery of a parked electrical vehicle (EV) to the home for use as a backup power source during outages. Using the energy stored in your EV battery instead of grid energy can also help reduce your carbon footprint.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Installing and operating EV charging stations offers businesses and owners of commercial and industrial buildings a winning proposition. Through demand-response programs , utilities enroll and compensate companies willing to reduce consumption when demand is greater than available supplies of electricity. Onsite renewables and storage.

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Blink Charging

JULY 27, 2023

In 2030, McKinsey estimates that there may be as many as 48 million EVs plugging into the US power grid, which means that utility providers are already preparing for the increased load. A BES system is a solution for businesses that want to store energy for later use. to $1,156.20.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The US Department of Energy delivered more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for eight projects to further smart grid demonstration projects in seven states. million in Recovery Act funding available for local governments to develop emergency preparedness plans for their electrical systems.

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Driivz

MARCH 23, 2022

V2X, meaning vehicle-to-everything, is the overarching term for transferring the electricity stored in electric vehicle (EV) batteries to the grid, buildings, houses, and other energy-consuming destinations. This helps balance the grid overall and, where available, takes advantage of flexible energy markets. .

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

University of Maryland researchers have partnered with Redox Power Systems LLC to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (LT-SOFC) technology for distributed generation—and ultimately transportation—applications at about one-tenth the cost and one-tenth the size of current commercial fuel cell systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

The modular system is targeted as a residential product, but also has the potential to be aggregated for small commercial and industrial (C&I) end-users. The Eguana power control system manages system power flow and handles the core power conversion functions—AC→DC and DC→AC—as well as connectivity with power grid.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 27, 2022

As noted by Tesla, the system is the first commercial use of Powerwall home batteries for a virtual power plant in Japan. It would also be one of the country’s largest commercial VPPs using household storage batteries when it is fully completed. ?? ????300????????????Powerwall?????????????????????????????? 300????????????Powerwall??????????????????????????????

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

In August 2010, A123 spun out 24M to commercialize this type of new technology. In contrast to previous flow batteries, the SSFC stores energy in suspensions of solid storage compounds to and from which charge transfer is accomplished via dilute yet percolating networks of nanoscale conductors. Earlier post.). –2.9 Duduta, M.,

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

As the pressure to decarbonize electricity grids mounts, so does the need to have long-term storage options for power generated from renewables. Especially for sources like wind and solar, which have discontinuous availability. An important one, Sprenkle adds, is understanding the value of that stored energy. “A

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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. A handful of bidirectional-capable EVs are available today, and automakers are quickly implementing the technology.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Renewable energy integration involves the incorporation of renewable energy sources into existing energy systems, such as electrical grids or heating systems. Energy Storage Systems Batteries or other storage systems can be integrated into a HEMS to store excess energy during periods of low demand and release it during peak demand times.

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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. Cummins Inc. and China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) have formed a 50:50 joint venture: Cummins Enze (Guangdong) Hydrogen Technology Co.,

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