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Electrek
JULY 13, 2021
A site the size of greater Sydney may host a $100 billion project to convert wind and solar into green hydrogen in Western Australia. If built, it will become the world’s largest clean energy hub.
Electrek
APRIL 19, 2021
The US Department of Energy announced the winners of its collegiate competition, the Solar Decathlon , yesterday. The contest, which has been running since 2002, challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by clean energy.
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Green Car Congress
JUNE 7, 2022
President Biden issued presidential determinations providing the US Department of Energy (DOE) with the authority to utilize the Defense Production Act (DPA) to accelerate domestic production of five key energy technologies: solar; transformers and electric grid components; heat pumps; insulation; and. As the world transitions to a clean energy economy, global demand for these essential products and components is set to skyrocket by 400-600% over the next several decades.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 15, 2020
The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid.
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
In Q2 2021, Tesla solar and battery storage deployments tripled year-over-year. Earlier this year, Tesla announced that all its solar and solar roof products would come with a Powerwall.
Teslarati
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Tesla nickel supplier BHP announced that construction on one of the world’s largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems has started. Keith and Leinster operations, through the Northern Goldfields Solar Project. MW solar farm at Mt. MW solar farm and a 10.1
Setec Powerr
APRIL 26, 2022
Aiming to boost confidence in battery-powered cars by ensuring drivers can always find somewhere to plug in, grants included in the infrastructure law will help states build a charging network designed to reach highways in almost every corner of the country.
Green Car Congress
JULY 9, 2020
The two strategies present a new clean energy investment agenda, in line with the European Commission’s Next Generation EU recovery package and the European Green Deal. For example, this means a system where the electricity that fuels Europe’s cars could come from rooftop solar panels, while buildings are kept warm with heat from a nearby factory, and the factory is fueled by clean hydrogen produced from off-shore wind energy.
EV Match
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Arcadia and EVmatch partner to offer customers a new and easy way to connect to clean energy at home. At EVmatch , we envision a distributed, equitable, and carbon-free clean energy economy that connects and elevates all people.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2019
Hydro-Québec’s Strategic Plan 2020–2024 outlines five applications for clean hydrogen: Ammonia and methanol production. Heating buildings. Hydro-Québec operates some 60 hydroelectric generating stations, making it one of the largest hydroelectricity producers in the world.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2012
The US Department of Energy announced the selections for three consortia that will make up the $125-million US-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC). Consortia researchers will leverage their expertise and resources in solar technology, advanced biofuels, and building efficiency. The Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center is part of the US-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy.
Green Car Congress
MAY 21, 2020
Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that clean hydrogen could cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry. It does not depend on particular weather conditions, and does not require as much land as solar- and wind-based projects.
Green Car Congress
MAY 12, 2020
A new World Bank Group report finds that the production of minerals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, could increase by nearly 500% by 2050, to meet the growing demand for clean energy technologies.
Teslarati
JUNE 23, 2021
Tesla China announced earlier that it has launched a solar-powered Supercharger facility in Lhasa, the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Tesla’s Superchargers could begin to take a turn for more solar-powered infrastructure in the future.
Creative Greenius
MAY 15, 2009
Dency charges his plug-in electric car using the clean, renewable energy he produces from the solar panels on the roof of his Hermosa Beach house. Dency’s house is just one of 7 houses you can tour on tomorrow’s EPN Solar Homes Tour which you can check out on the EPN’s fabulous new web site. Manhattan Beach is teaming up with the Environmental Priorities Network to feature five solar powered homes on their Manhattan Beach Solar Homes Tour the same day.
Creative Greenius
MAY 14, 2009
After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s tried the sugar and honey approach for ten years but instead of catching flies he’s caught hassles and obstructions from local Southern California city officials who haven’t kept up with modern technology and remain both ignorant and adversarial when it comes to helping their citizens go solar. solar installers. BRADLEY’S BACKGROUND IN SOLAR.
Cars That Think
MARCH 14, 2022
One of the main impediments to harnessing solar energy is storage. Solar batteries work as a short-term solution, but not when it comes to long-term storage or to power, say, an entire city. gigawatts of clean energy in the next five years, is timely.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
Percentage of consumers having extremely or very favorable views of 13 clean energy technologies, 2009-2011. According to a new survey from Pike Research, general consumer support for clean energy concepts—ranging from renewable energy to alternative fuel vehicles to smart grid technologies—has eroded in the US between 2009 and 2011. Electric (Battery) Hybrids Solar Surveys Wind
Creative Greenius
JUNE 11, 2009
We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid. SOLAR FINANCING – WHO GETS IT AND WHO DOESN’T. If rates were below 5% solar would blow up bigger than Lindsey Lohan going YouTube at Pinkberries.
Creative Greenius
JULY 27, 2013
But not this Creative Greenius who says – like how it happened or not, Detroit offers a clean slate. Detroit is an unprecedented opportunity to use the tremendous assets already in place to reimagine and reinvent its post-industrial future and address the great challenge of the 21st century – no, it’s not dealing with deficits or pension obligations, it’s adapting to climate change and building a sustainable society.
Creative Greenius
MARCH 31, 2009
Our group was an interesting and friendly mix of unemployed construction workers looking for new careers; electricians, iron workers and other licensed contractors looking to expand into solar installation; and three or four guys who were there to learn how to do a self install of solar for their home, shop or cabin. By “ utility interactive&# they mean what’s commonly called grid-tied solar.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 16, 2021
The 178-page report finds that the goals of SB 100 can be achieved in different ways, but reaching them will require significant investments in new and existing technologies and an increased, sustained build-out of clean energy projects to bring new resources on-line. California will need to sustain its expansion of clean electricity generation capacity at a record-breaking rate for the next 25 years.
Creative Greenius
JULY 2, 2009
LED lighting, sustainable building materials, making sure that we’re doing all that we can to be as efficient in the way that we use energy no matter what it’s form. If you’re like me you would have found Tuesday’s gathering in Santa Monica a very sexy day at the beach.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 7, 2021
BNEF expects the average levelized cost of solar PV to be 40% lower by 2050 than it did two years ago, driven by more automatic manufacturing, less silicon and silver consumption, higher photovoltaic efficiency of solar cells, and greater yields using bifacial panels. It shows that in future, at least 33% of the world economy could be powered by clean energy for not a cent more than it pays for fossil fuels. This is how it goes with clean energy.
Get Electric Vehicle
APRIL 17, 2021
California-based start-up Humble Motors has set out to resolve the issue by charging their cars with solar electricity. The world is still working to build the required infrastructure for electric vehicles. Coming up with an advanced solar panel to capture as much as sunlight possible.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $145 million to 69 projects in 24 states to help shape the next generation of solar energy technologies. Funded through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the projects will also improve materials, manufacturing processes, and supply chains for a wide range of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and components of solar energy systems. Power Generation Solar
Teslarati
OCTOBER 28, 2021
That was until the “Clean Energy for America” bill came out, hinting toward a potential $12,500 EV tax credit for cars under $80,000. After a drastic portion of the Build Back Better plan was scrapped, the EV tax credit still remains, according to the White House.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 29, 2021
A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. Because VREs such as solar and wind power produce electricity only when the sun shines and the wind blows, they need back up from other energy sources, especially during seasons of high electric demand. California draws more than 20% of its electricity from solar and approximately 7% from wind, with more VRE coming online rapidly.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 19, 2015
General Motors is partnering with DTE Energy to build a new 800-kilowatt solar array at its Warren Transmission plant that will be GM’s largest solar installation in Michigan. The 2,800 solar panels will generate clean electricity that will go back to the grid. Warren Transmission builds front-wheel drive transmissions for a variety of GM’s most-popular cars, crossovers and SUVs, as well as the drive unit for the new 2016 Chevrolet Volt.
Teslarati
APRIL 1, 2021
In an announcement on Wednesday, tech giant Apple revealed that it is building a big battery storage project at a Northern California solar farm. The project will also store energy gathered from the California Flats, a 130 MW solar farm.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2013
MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America. The Volkswagen Chattanooga Solar Park has a peak output of 9.5 —Wolfram Thomas, at the solar park launch event.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 2, 2013
A University of Colorado Boulder team has developed a new solar-thermal water-splitting (STWS) system for the efficient production of hydrogen. One of the designs proposed by the team is to build reactor tubes roughly a foot in diameter and several feet long, fill them with the metal oxide material and stack them on top of each other. Despite the discovery, the commercialization of such a solar-thermal reactor is likely years away, the researchers said.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 15, 2019
In a major new report on hydrogen, the International Energy Agency says that the time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. The report—The Future of Hydrogen: Seizing Today’s Opportunities—finds that clean hydrogen is currently receiving strong support from governments and businesses around the world, with the number of policies and projects expanding rapidly.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 27, 2016
Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition Former US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Yi Cui and Nian Liu, all currently at Stanford University, write in a Perspective piece in Nature Materials that research in materials science is contributing to progress towards a sustainable future based on clean energy generation, transmission and distribution, the storage of electrical and chemical energy, energy efficiency, and better energy management systems. “If
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels. Unlike sugar-based biofuel producers, Joule directly and continuously converts solar energy into liquid fuels, without costly raw materials, pretreatment or downstream processing.
Green Car Congress
MAY 25, 2021
Our partnership with Iberdrola will connect us with a major clean energy company and strategically positions us to be a European leader in green hydrogen production. We believe that this is just the start of our expansion into new markets, bringing new clean technology to customers, and supporting efforts to bring the European Union’s Green Deal to fruition. Hydrogen Hydrogen Production Power-to-Gas Solar Solar fuels WindCummins Inc.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. The goal of CARB’s Zero and Near Zero Emission Freight Facility program is to support transformative, cost-effective clean technologies that can be adopted by other freight facilities and accelerate the commercialization of these technologies statewide.
Green Car Congress
JULY 20, 2019
Haldor Topsoe will build a 10 kg/hour methanol plant to demonstrate the company’s electrified and extremely compact eSMR Methanol technology for cost-competitive production of sustainable methanol from biogas. The technology heats the process using green electricity from wind turbines or solar panels instead of natural gas. Methanol is used as a clean fuel or an important intermediary in the production of many chemicals and polymers (plastics).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2014
KCCS) have installed a Solar Cycle Station for EV at the headquarters of Shintec Hozumi Co., Based on a development plan by Shintec Hozumi, KCCS designed and constructed the system so that solar-generated power charged to electric vehicles can be utilized in times of disaster as backup energy, contributing both to the efficient use of clean energy and disaster prevention. Kyocera Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary Kyocera Communication Systems Co.,
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
A research demonstration unveiled at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE ORNL) combines clean energy technologies into a 3D-printed building and a 3D-printed natural gas-powered hybrid vehicle to showcase a new approach to energy use, storage and consumption. An ORNL team worked with industrial partners to manufacture and connect a natural-gas-powered hybrid electric vehicle with a solar-powered building to create an integrated energy system.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2017
The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. The SCQAMD project will build and demonstrate electric-drive trucks, near-zero emission low NO x natural gas engines, an electric top handler, and wireless electric vehicle charging technologies for cargo handling equipment and drayage trucks.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 17, 2012
The Center for Environmental Research and Technology at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering, has received a $2-million award for a two-year project to build solar arrays, advanced battery storage, vehicle charging stations, an electric trolley, and a grid management system to provide clean energy to clean vehicles efficiently. Separately, AECOM Technology Corporation and REC Solar unveiled a 1.16
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 28, 2009
The US Department of Energy will invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three new Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating research and development in three key energy areas, one of which is developing an effective solar energy to chemical fuel conversion system—i.e., The objective of the Fuels from Sunlight Hub is to accelerate the development of a sustainable commercial process for the production of solar fuels, likely using mechanisms based on photosynthesis.
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