Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In subsequent years, the Far North Fiber project will lay down a cable through the Northwest Passage, connecting Iceland to Greenland, then Canada, Alaska, and finally Japan. United States’ Wind on the Wire The largest renewable-energy infrastructure project in U.S. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Ensyn (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. PGSTech (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). Mississauga, Ontario, Canada). Nu:Ionic (Tulsa, Oklahoma).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Integrating and storing grid and off-grid energy To properly balance electricity supply and demand on the power grid, renewables should be integrated into energy generation, transmission, and distribution systems from the very start, Rahman said. We don’t have enough solar energy and wind energy.”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations. We will own the battery.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 26, 2021

To reach the 80x30 goal, the US power grid would need to add between 60 and 80 GW of new clean power every year (double the record 35 GW of renewables added in 2020). Clean energy projects, such as wind and solar farms, would see a windfall. So it's unclear just how much solar, wind, and batteries would grow.

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