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Demand Response Management for EVs

Blink Charging

While electric vehicles are celebrated for their eco-friendly and efficient design, they present a challenge to the power grid during peak hours or certain energy events. Recognizing this, grid regulators and utility companies are actively considering demand response strategies for electric vehicles.

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Avangrid just broke ground on its first solar farm in California

Baua Electric

GW of installed capacity of renewables in the US, is building the 57-megawatt (MW) Camino Solar Project in Kern County, California. The solar farm’s 105,000 solar panels will generate enough clean electricity to power around 14,000 households annually. Avangrid , which already has 8.7

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. power-grid transmission.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

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. One is to do a modernized version of what we have done in the past: Build giant, centralized infrastructure.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

Yesterday, in a livestreamed event, Dan O’Dowd —a software billionaire and vehement critic of Tesla Motors’ allegedly self-driving technologies—debated Ross Gerber, an investment banker who backs the company. Dowd published the findings, running an ad in The New York Times and a commercial during the Super Bowl. What’s next?

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GE Energy launches fully networked Wattstation and Wattstation Connect software; pay by smartphone

Green Car Congress

The WattStation Connect full-service software platform helps meet a variety needs for providers of EV charging services, whether for a retailer looking to attract new customers, a commercial property manager in need of information on electricity usage or a fleet owner in search of better cost-allocation data. Smart grid demo.

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Audi & Hager Group investigating bidirectional charging at home

Green Car Congress

As a further expansion stage in combination with a home storage unit, it is possible to achieve near complete energy independence and increased security of supply in the event of a blackout. In the first half of 2020, the proportion of green electricity as a percentage of the total electricity mix in Germany exceeded 50% for the first time.

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