Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be
Electrek
APRIL 29, 2024
Nevada utility NV Energy’s largest battery energy storage system sits on a former coal-fired power plant site and will save customers a lot of money.
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Electrek
APRIL 29, 2024
Nevada utility NV Energy’s largest battery energy storage system sits on a former coal-fired power plant site and will save customers a lot of money.
Electrek
JANUARY 11, 2024
A Tesla Megapack battery system has officially turned on to replace Hawaii’s very last coal power plant. more… The post Tesla Megapack battery turns on to replace Hawaii’s last coal plant appeared first on Electrek.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 13, 2020
Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. from coal. Energy source.
Teslarati
MARCH 30, 2023
Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed that the United States generated more electricity from renewable energy sources than coal last year. electric power demand through 2050 in all cases,” noted the EIA. The EIA states that renewables are increasingly meeting power demand.
Baua Electric
APRIL 29, 2024
Nevada utility NV Energy’s largest battery energy storage system sits on a former coal-fired power plant site and will save customers a lot of money. The new BESS is on the site of the former 557-megawatt (MW) coal-fired Reid Gardner Generating Station, which was demolished in 2019. Energy Vault will maintain the system.
Electrek
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Type One energy has announced its intention to use a retired TVA coal plant site, the Bull Run Fossil Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the site for a prototype fusion reactor with the hope to eventually commercialize fusion power – and maybe even find a neat way to use old EV batteries to help power the process.
Teslarati
APRIL 29, 2024
Tesla Megapacks will help expand the Collie Battery into a 560 MW/2,240 kWh system–the biggest in Australia. Neoen recently won the contract to triple the size of the Collie Battery. The French renewable energy and storage developer is teaming up with Tesla and UGL to expand the Collie Battery.
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. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix.
Teslarati
MAY 27, 2021
On Tuesday, an explosion at the Callide Power Station , a coal-fired power plant in central Queensland, Australia, resulted in mass power outages from the New South Wales (NSW) border to Cairns. This was when the Hornsdale Power Reserve , a massive Tesla Powerpack battery farm, stepped in.
Teslarati
JANUARY 15, 2024
While more effort is needed to reach that goal, one energy organization has predicted that renewables will overtake coal generation as the world’s largest electricity source in early 2025. The post Renewables to overtake coal as largest global electricity source in 2025 appeared first on TESLARATI. In the U.S.,
Baua Electric
JANUARY 11, 2024
A Tesla Megapack battery system has officially turned on to replace Hawaii’s very last coal power plant. In early 2022, we reported that Tesla is deploying Megapacks at a new energy storage project that will replace Hawaii’s last remaining coal plant. It will enable better use of the state’s increasing renewable energy.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2023
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $42 million to 12 projects to strengthen the domestic supply chain for advanced batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs). Project K is developing and commercializing a potassium-ion battery, which operates similarly to Li-ion batteries. Award amount: $3,198,085).
Teslarati
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Tesla Megapacks will store power for the 50MW/75MWh Wallgrove battery in New South Wales (NSW). Transgrid subsidiary Lumea will build the Wallgrove battery in western Sydney. Tesla Megapacks will enable the Wallgrove battery to deliver “synthetic inertia” to the local grid.
Baua Electric
APRIL 29, 2024
In a historic agreement, the G7 just agreed to phase out coal in the first half of the 2030s, according to statements made today. The US is in line with the G7 average (16%), while the other G7 members have mostly already phased out coal: France (0.4%), the UK (1.4%), Canada (5%), and Italy (5.3%). Get started here. –
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 5, 2023
Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020. Inkoo was selected as our location due to its high-quality infrastructure and access to clean power. VGI was established by Tore Ivar Slettemoen, one of the founders of Freyr Batteries. Inkoo power plant.
Baua Electric
MARCH 29, 2024
Photo: PSNH/Flickr Both of New Hampshire’s coal plants are shutting, making New England the second coal-free region in the US. That’s following a settlement between Sierra Club, The Conservation Law Foundation, EPA, and Granite Shore Power. That will make New Hampshire the 16th coal-free state. Get started here. –ad*
Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2023
by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research The overall advantage of battery electric over gasoline vehicles, in terms of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases, has been well documented. However, the emissions of electric vehicles depend greatly on the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. Natural gas 87.9
Teslarati
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
The 100MW/200MWh Chinchilla battery in Queensland, Australia, has been registered and connected to the grid. Expectations are high that the massive battery farm’s commissioning will begin soon. The Chinchilla battery features 80 Tesla Megapack batteries. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2021
From 2025 on, the company plans to source steel produced with up to 95% less CO 2 emissions and without requiring fossil resources such as coal. The BMW Group has now reached an agreement to this effect with the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel (H2GS), which uses hydrogen and only green power from renewable energies for steel production.
Teslarati
JULY 5, 2021
Tesla Energy firmly argued against using coal and gas generators to support a proposed low-cost, reliable, secure, and zero-emissions grid in Australia. . The project was aimed at providing a more robust and lower emissions power system for Australians. Tesla Powerpack battery steps in after coal plant explodes in Australia.
Teslarati
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
An upcoming Tesla Megapack project and a new wind farm may help Australia reduce its use of coal power. Australia has long used coal as a power source, mainly because of its abundance. billion) wind power project and a $150 million (USD 97.4 Together, they will produce enough energy to power 1.4
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2021
Benchmark Minerals reports that China’s ongoing energy shortage, which has seen local governments enforce intermittent power cuts since July 2021, has begun to affect domestic anode and cathode production as several producers were forced to scale back production in late Q3.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
Today, coal-fired plants meet more than 60% of Indonesia’s power demand. Under the ETS, coal’s share rises to a peak of 74% by 2027 and then declines to 24% in 2050. —Caroline Chua, BNEF’s Southeast Asia clean power lead analyst. By then, the combined share of renewables in electricity supply reaches 74%.
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Located in southeast England, the facility would provide 99 MW of power that will be stored in Tesla Megapack batteries. This effectively made the giant batteries a perfect fit for Britain’s energy storage needs. . Grid-scale batteries would have been a more preferable option. .
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2021
The results show there is no realistic pathway to full decarbonization of internal combustion engine vehicles, and that only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways. This study uses recent data on industrial-scale battery production and considers regional battery supply chains.
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Photo: Hornsea Project Europe’s coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. That collapse resulted in an impressive 19% reduction in the EU’s power sector emissions. Wind and solar power are now taking center stage. compared to 2022. The takeaway?
Green Car Congress
JUNE 19, 2018
This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades. BNEF predicts that lithium-ion battery prices, already down by nearly 80% per megawatt-hour since 2010, will continue to tumble as electric vehicle manufacturing builds up through the 2020s.
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.
Green Car Congress
MAY 17, 2021
MP Materials has received a $3-million award from the Department of Energy (DOE) to complete a feasibility study, working with the University of Kentucky (UK), on a system to produce rare earth oxides, metals, and other critical materials recovered from coal by-products. Mountain Pass facility. Source: MP Materials.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Aurizon , Australia’s largest rail freight operator, and leading global mining company Anglo American will work together on a feasibility study to assess the introduction of hydrogen-powered trains for bulk freight. Earlier post.) Rail freight already produces up to 16 times less carbon pollution per tonne kilometer than road.
CleanTechnica EVs
JANUARY 27, 2023
At the coal face of a conference that involved governmental figures, academics, logistics customers and OEMs, the detailed technical conversations are almost all about how battery electric trucks will work in the coming decades.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
In trials, GE’s sodium metal halide Durathon batteries ( earlier post ) have successfully powered GE Mining’s Scoop, an underground vehicle that transports mining materials, at Coal River Energy, LLC in Alum Creek, West Virginia. The Durathon-powered Scoop at work. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.
Teslarati
JULY 23, 2021
Tesla has launched its Virtual Power Plant (VPP) program in California, allowing customers to utilize their Powerwall batteries and solar panels to help the state’s grid. Tesla solar and Powerwall customers could do their part by helping create one of the largest distributed battery systems in the world.
Teslarati
JANUARY 2, 2023
A Tesla Megapack-powered project being developed by Neoen at Queensland Green Power Hub has been given the green light for construction. This marks Neoen’s fourth big battery system in Australia and will bring Neoen’s total battery capacity in operation or under construction around the world to over 6 GW.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 2, 2024
US-based vehicle electrification system supplier HummingbirdEV has provided 393 electric mining vehicles powered by its EV technologies under a licensing agreement with Keshi Group, a China-based manufacturer of coal mining vehicles and equipment. They are now in operation in Chinese mines.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 17, 2021
A microgrid based on renewable energies with hydrogen-powered fuel cells for emergency and peak power as well as hydrogen combustion engines can meet the special energy requirements of port facilities. It will not only set new standards in cargo handling, but also in climate-friendly energy supply.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Groupe Renault is launching its “Advanced Battery Storage” program, which aims to build the biggest energy stationary storage system using EV batteries yet designed in Europe by 2020 (power: 70 MW / energy: 60MWh). The storage capacity will then be gradually expanded over time to contain the energy of 2,000 EV batteries.
Teslarati
JANUARY 9, 2024
energy storage system deployment is expected to nearly double in 2024, with battery capacity forecasted to grow by 89 percent. states have installed substantially more energy storage systems than others, making up the vast majority of battery capacity available. GW (7,302 MW) of battery capacity installed. The post These 10 U.S.
Green Car Congress
JULY 29, 2019
On 26 July, the first flue gas from the natural gas power plant, the Shepard Energy Center in Calgary, Canada, was directly transformed by the C2CNT process ( earlier post ) into carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes are valued at more than $100,000 per tonne—a thousand-fold greater than coal.
The Truth About Cars
MAY 17, 2023
Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, and Yamaha have just collectively promised to develop a slew of hydrogen-reliant engines designed to power small vehicles. It’s largely counter to what the rest of the world is doing and begs the question of why Japan seems so intent on making hydrogen power work. But such a breakthrough seems a long way off.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 12, 2013
Consumption-based power mixes and NG transmission distances by Chinese province in 2010. In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.
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