WBUR/The Boston Globe: These energy suppliers say they can save you money. Regulators say it’s a scam.
Green Energy Consumers
APRIL 1, 2024
This blog is a repost of a story that was produced by a partnership of the Boston Globe and WBUR.
False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.
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Boston Globe Feature: How The DPU Is Preventing Communities From Lowering Utility Bills - And Carbon Emissions
Green Energy Consumers
OCTOBER 24, 2022
In case you missed it, the Boston Globe did an excellent story exposing how the Mass. Department of Public Utilities has been poorly managing applications of cities and towns to adopt municipal aggregation.
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A new Iron Age? Startup promises low-cost, high-energy iron-air batteries for home grids
Green Car Reports
JULY 26, 2021
Boston-based startup Form Energy claims to have achieved a battery breakthrough using one of the oldest materials known to industrialized civilization: Iron.
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Li-ion startup Cadenza Innovation raises $5+M in oversubscribed Series A; ex Boston Power team
Green Car Congress
JULY 18, 2016
Cadenza Innovation , a Li-ion battery startup founded in 2012 by Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud, former CEO and founder of Boston Power ( earlier post ), has raised more than $5 million in growth capital. Safety: integrated fire protection, enabling fail-safe battery packs for use in residential, grid and transportation applications.
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BMW to partner with Coulomb Technologies in Boston; Coulomb offering new cloud-based service plans, new dual-port charging stations
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2011
BMW of North America and Coulomb Technologies announced that drivers of the BMW ActiveE all-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will be able to take advantage of the expansion of the ChargePoint Network into the Boston Metro area. The charging stations will be located in the Boston metropolitan area, primarily within the Route 495 Beltway.
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BAE Systems to supply up to 600 electric power and propulsion systems for new transit buses in Ireland
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
BAE Systems’ Series-ER technology is powering more than 200 buses across the globe, including major cities such as Brighton, Boston and San Francisco. Series-ER is essentially Series-E with a larger battery. This also eliminates the need for cities to add costly charging infrastructure.
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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects
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. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).
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This lithium-free battery startup just raised $78M in Series C funding
Baua Electric
APRIL 4, 2024
Photo: Alsym Energy Boston-based Alsym Energy, which is developing a nonflammable rechargeable battery that’s cobalt and lithium-free, has announced a $78 million funding round. It can be used for a range of stationary storage use cases, including utility grids, home storage, microgrids, industrial applications, and more.
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Advent Technologies announces availability of next-generation HT-PEM MEAs
Green Car Congress
MARCH 15, 2022
The above is essential for mobility and off-grid applications and clearly separates us from current PEM technology competitors. In addition, Advent announced significant progress with its MEA manufacturing scale-up plan, notably: A Boston-based team is working on the MEA manufacturing scale-up.
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DOE announces 15 Phase 1 semifinalists of Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Lithium, a critical material used in high-charge-density batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale electricity storage, is a crucial element in the clean energy supply chain. The Phase 1 semifinalists are: Boston University – Pober-Strauss. Nearly all of the US lithium stock is imported. George Washington University – Ellexco.
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V2G is the key to the popularity of electric vehicles
Setec Powerr
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
As more consumers purchase electric vehicles in the coming decades, a huge question is plaguing governments and the auto industry: Can the grid keep up with the dramatic increase in demand for electricity? Simply put, V2G allows energy to flow in both directions, both from the grid to the vehicle and from the vehicle to the grid.
Enel enters public transit electrification market in US; partners with MassCEC for electric bus fleet
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Enel X will utilize its fully-networked, grid-responsive smart charging technology to enable Hopkinton Public School District to optimize charging sessions, thereby making a more efficient use of resources, while also providing energy services to the grid.
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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. And Warren, who eventually solved the grid-frequency problem, was actually working on a different puzzle when he came across the answer. How Warren’s clocks regulated grid frequency Henry E.
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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits
Green Car Congress
MAY 31, 2021
To conduct the study, the researchers used anonymized cellphone data from large communications providers to track the movement of people in the metro areas of Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Boston; Braga, Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal; Dakar, Senegal; and Singapore. This generalized behavior is not just something you observe in Boston.
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Clean Energy Ventures leads investment battery startups Nth Cycle and Volexion; upstream, downstream
Green Car Congress
APRIL 8, 2021
N th Cycle, whose technology was developed at Harvard University and Yale University, recently opened new operations in the Boston area, and will use the funding to execute its technology roadmap and deploy several pilot projects with recyclers and mine operators early next year. N th Cycle process diagram.
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221 GM adds 3 acres of solar arrays in Michigan
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2014
The company’s processing center in Swartz Creek and engine plant in Flint will feature 150 kW ground-mount solar arrays expected to generate a combined 400,000 kWh of renewable energy per year to the facilities’ grids. That is equivalent to the annual energy use of 25 homes. —Rob Threlkeld, GM global renewable energy manager.
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DOE to award $10.2M to 16 solid oxide fuel cell projects
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
The system will operate on natural gas and connect directly to the electric grid. Boston University. Boston University. Self-Cleaning Cathodes for Endurance to Chromium Poisoning Boston University will evaluate chemical and electrochemical cathode self-cleaning and performance recovery processes. Lead organization.
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Georgia Tech team simulates risks of hacked connected vehicles; stalling 20% of cars could gridlock Manhattan
Green Car Congress
JULY 30, 2019
Manhattan has a nice grid, and that makes traffic more efficient. Looking at cities without large grids like Atlanta, Boston, or Los Angeles, and we think hackers could do worse harm because a grid makes you more robust with redundancies to get to the same places down many different routes.
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Ford names first markets for the Focus Electric
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va.;
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IRENA report finds renewable power costs at parity or below fossil fuels in many parts of world
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 17, 2015
On 6 January, the two power companies—Northeast Utilities and National Grid—that had agreed to buy energy from Cape Wind terminated their contracts, saying Cape Wind had missed the 31 December deadline to obtain financing and begin construction. of Cape Wind output; National Grid had agreed to buy 50%.
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Smart Grid projects pick up huge funding boost
Green Cars News
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
The advancement of the US Smart Grid has taken another significant step forward after the US Department of Energy agreed to award $620million to projects across the country aimed at advancing Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems.
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EIA: major utilities continue to increase spending on US electric distribution systems
Green Car Congress
JULY 23, 2018
Managing a grid with increasing amounts of customer-sited variable generation increases wear and tear on the distribution equipment required to maintain voltage and frequency within acceptable limits and to manage excessive heating of transformers during reverse power flow.
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Electric Vehicles Adoption – A Huge Business Opportunity for Utilities
Driivz
MAY 13, 2022
According to the Boston Consulting Group, the average utility can gain between US$3-$10 billion in new value. By taking the leadership role in the EV revolution, they can monetize their existing and future grid infrastructure, creating new revenue streams in overlapping markets. Managing the Infrastructure.
Imperium3 consortium forms to establish Li-ion battery gigafactory in NY state; 3 GWh by Q4 2019 to grow to 15 GWh
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 6, 2017
a publicly-traded Australian company, will provide anode materials needed for the consortium to make the innovative lithium-ion batteries; and Boston Energy and Innovation, another Australian business specializing in clean energy, will provide international sales and marketing opportunities. Magnis Resources, Ltd.,
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Chrysler providing 10 PHEV Ram 1500 pickups to MBTA as part of demo project
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The PHEV Ram 1500 pickups are part of a national demonstration fleet of 140 vehicles that will be used during the next three years to evaluate customer usage, drive cycles, charging, thermal management, fuel economy, emissions and impact on the region’s electric grid. Earlier post.). Albany, N.Y., and Charlotte, N.C.
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Electra Vehicles, Inc. Announces $21 Million Financing Round led by United Ventures
Electra Vehicles
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Boston, USA & Milan, Italy, 22nd February 2023 - , Electra Vehicles, Inc. , the B2B electric vehicle AI software company headquartered in Boston, USA that produces Cloud and onboard software to optimize the performance of electric vehicle battery systems, announced it has raised $21M in an oversubscribed investment round.
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Hilux, Ranger EV ute conversions by Roev from $47,990 as company confirms 2023 production
EV Central
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
The Boston Consulting Group recently forecast that 55 percent of new utes sold in Australia by 2030 would be electric. Down the track, Roev sees vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology as one of the big appeals of its vehicles, but the first vehicles won’t have that functionality.
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Electra Vehicles, Inc. Closes $3.6 Million Seed Funding Round led by LIFTT S.p.A and BlackBerry Ltd.
Electra Vehicles
JUNE 23, 2021
June 23, 2021 - Boston, USA / Torino, Italy / Waterloo, Canada - , Electra Vehicles, Inc. Other investors include , Club degli Investitori , , Massachusetts Clean Energy Center , , Hyperplane Venture Capital , , Prithvi Ventures , , Launchpad Venture Group , , TiE Boston Angels , and successful Angel investors.
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Researchers forecast light-duty vehicle electricity use in 2050 considering electrification, autonomy and sharing: 13-26% of total demand
Green Car Congress
JULY 29, 2018
Considering electrification, autonomy and sharing (the “Three Revolutions”), a team from Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley projects that electricity use from light duty vehicle (LDV) transport will likely be in the 570–1140?TWh TWh range—13–26%—respectively, of total electricity demand in 2050.
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150 First $300M tranche of VW National ZEV investment targets charging infrastructure; 150kW+ fast charging on highway network
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2017
Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. In addition, other use cases/technologies are also under consideration including targeted battery storage to manage peak demand and ease grid loads, etc.
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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle
Electric Auto Association
MAY 3, 2022
I love that my EV is so efficient: EVs convert over 77% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels. We routinely drive to see our daughter in Washington, DC and have driven to Cleveland, Boston, New York and Charleston, SC without concern. Vehicle safety is very important to me and many others.
Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Exascale Lattice Gauge Theory Opportunities and Requirements for Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Paul Mackenzie (FNAL) with BNL, TJNAF, Boston University, Columbia University, University of Utah, Indiana University, UIUC, Stony Brook, College of William & Mary.
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In a historic first, a US offshore wind farm delivers power to the grid [Update]
Baua Electric
JANUARY 19, 2024
Halfway point Another big milestone for #SouthForkWind as we reach the halfway-finished milestone, with 6 of the 12 turbines complete and supplying #offshorewind energy to the Long Island grid. federal waters to begin providing clean, offshore wind energy to the grid! pic.twitter.com/AVn6eQKV6n — Ørsted U.S. Get started here. –
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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund
Green Car Congress
JULY 10, 2019
Vivint Solar, Lehi, Utah Wind Turbine Drivetrain Reliability Assessment and Remaining Useful Life Prediction, $100,000 WindESCo, Boston, Mass. Improved tools for consumer load profiling to build resilience into the electric grid, $150,000 Holy Cross Energy, Glenwood Springs, Colo. Tesla, Palo Alto, Calif. Petersburg, Fla.
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247 BMW ActiveE available for leasing in US in Fall 2011
Green Car Congress
APRIL 19, 2011
The BMW ActiveE ( earlier post ) will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011 for $499 per month for 24 months with a down payment $2,250. Click to enlarge.
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186 US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Boston, Massachusetts) will develop a cost-effective, high efficiency, power take-off system for a wave energy converter, a mechanism to convert water’s mechanical energy into usable electricity. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $300,000. Resolute Marine Energy, Inc. DOE Funding: $600,000. Total Project Value: $1,000,000.
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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape
Cars That Think
JULY 15, 2023
Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills. From Experiments to Fusion Power Plants As difficult as it will be, successfully producing an energy gain of 10 or more in a fusion experiment may still prove to be easier than the subsequent challenge of using nuclear fusion to put electricity on the grid.
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South Fork Wind just became the US’s first complete utility-scale offshore wind farm
Baua Electric
MARCH 14, 2024
Danish renewables giant Ørsted and Boston-based energy provider Eversource developed the 132-megawatt (MW) South Fork Wind. It delivered its first power to the grid on December 6. It will deliver clean energy directly to the electric grid in East Hampton via a single transmission line installed in March of last year.
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South Fork Wind just became the US’s first complete utility-scale offshore wind farm
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Danish renewables giant Ørsted and Boston-based energy provider Eversource developed the 132-megawatt (MW) South Fork Wind. It delivered its first power to the grid on December 6. It will deliver clean energy directly to the electric grid in East Hampton via a single transmission line installed in March of last year.
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52 DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. stores energy from the sun to be released onto the grid at a. Boston College). power grid.
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Study forecasts even with modest warming, global energy demand to increase by mid-century
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2019
A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from IIASA, Boston University, and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century, climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming. —coauthor Ian Sue Wing, a researcher at Boston University.
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A Guide to Massachusetts EV Rebate Programs
EV Connect
MAY 15, 2023
National Grid National Grid , another Massachusetts utility, also offers charging stations rebates and incentives. Below are the available incentives for those qualified: Workplace —National Grid funds up to 50% of the make-ready infrastructure costs for Level 2 approved projects.
New electric truck company Chanje emerges from stealth; first model out this year
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2017
Bryan Hansel, CEO of Chanje, also announced additions to the executive team: Ian Gardner, President - previously The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Duke Energy, Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator and others. FDG and other partners combined have invested nearly US $1 billion in bringing the medium-duty EV to market.
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