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Renault plans Europe's largest battery storage network

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European electric-carmaker Renault plans to build the continent's largest stationary battery storage network next year using old electric-car batteries.

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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

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And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process.

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How Smart EV Charging Will Help Promote Renewable Power Generation

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To understand how important smart EV charging can be in helping even out peaks and troughs in the electrical grid it is useful to understand how electricity generation is changing. . Until recently most power stations relied on coal and gas to power generators. The EV as a mobile electricity storage device.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power. Almost all hydrogen produced today is designated as brown, black, or gray, meaning it was generated by burning natural gas or coal. But not all of the vehicles, buildings, and industrial processes that now use fossil fuels can run on electricity alone.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. By partnering with these two industries.

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