Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. These selections include: Abengoa Solar, Inc. Lakewood, CO – up to $10.6 eSolar, Inc.

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Baua Electric

MAY 24, 2024

Nissan began building the LEAF at its Sunderland, UK plant in 2013, with over 280,000 built at the facility. billion (£3 billion) investment to upgrade the facility to build three new electric vehicles. Nissan will build electric versions of some of its best-selling models, including the LEAF, Qashqai, and Juke.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

California’s current strategy of recovering a myriad of fixed costs in electricity usage rates must change as the state uses more renewable electricity to power buildings and vehicles, according to the findings from a new report from the Energy Institute at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and non-profit think tank Next 10.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts. billion in follow-on investment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

As utilities have begun retiring older plants, however, comparatively high costs have made it difficult to justify building new nuclear power plants. In the building phase, cost savings may be realized through modular and advanced manufacturing techniques that bring most of the work to the factory instead to the construction site.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

GE and Nissan have identified two key focus areas for the research efforts: the first relates to the integration of electric vehicles with homes and buildings; the second looks at electric vehicle charging dynamics and the future impact on the grid once millions of electric cars are on the road.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

Linear accelerator concept for capsule acceleration and deceleration between 300 and 760 mph (480 and 1,220 km/h). Hyperloop concept sketch. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL.would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. Improving Predictions of the Efficiency of Natural Ventilation in Buildings. million to Stanford faculty for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

The concept is the same embodied in Audi’s e-gas project ( earlier post ), to which the VGV proposal makes continued reference. Audi, along with ETOGAS, is building the first commercial-scale demonstration plant (6.3 This would help speed up the return on investment in VGV for the development costs of the energy transition.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The system would be grid-connected, so the spheres could also be used to store energy from other sources, including solar arrays on shore, or from base-load power plants, which operate most efficiently at steady levels. This could potentially reduce reliance on peak-power plants, which typically operate less efficiently. Slocum, A.H.;

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

Later in the program, teams that move to Phase 2 will focus on building components, unit operations, and prototype systems to reduce technical risks and costs. The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. US $5 PER KILOGRAM Cost of green hydrogen today. Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. To meet such targets, it’ll be necessary to build, and build fast.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Renewable generation technologies, such as solar and wind, pose a fundamental challenge to centralized power generation due to variability and intermittency, ARPA-E noted. Electrochemical GTL has the potential to outperform these systems in cost, throughput, and efficiency while keeping the footprint of the reactor small.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Commission’s funding is the cost-share for the company’s $6.2 The total cost of the project is $12.4 The program provides money to small businesses, non-profits, individuals and academic institutions to conduct research that establishes the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts. Seeo is contributing $5.6

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Production of Renewable Diesel, Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Gasoline, and Marine Fuel from Lignocellulosic Biomass at Dramatically Improved Yield, Efficiency, and Cost”, $2,000,000. Comstock Inc., dry ton equivalents of hardwood biomass per day (0.5 Topic Area 2: Pilot Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries LanzaTech, Inc.,

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Indeed, the sheer concept of securing construction permits, tackling technical questions and getting the consent of your tenants can seem like a daunting prospect. Third, you can take advantage of EV charger incentives to subsidize the cost of your investment. Money, money, money: figuring out the costs. Not too bad, right?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The President’s Climate Action Plan contains a goal of doubling renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources between 2012 and 2020. By the end of FY 2015, achieve best in class solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at $1.85/watt Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

These appliances are part of the broader concept of the Internet of Things (IoT), where everyday objects are connected to the internet, enabling them to collect and exchange data for improved functionality and user convenience. The stored ice is then used to cool buildings during peak demand times.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In conjunction with the annual Solar Power International conference, the US Department of Energy (DOE) released new research showing that the solar industry has achieved the 2020 utility-scale solar cost target set by the SunShot Initiative. Solar energy currently supplies about 1.5% of US electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

However, the financial cost of the shift is causing concern. The second measure aims at making the support of renewable energies more dependent on the rules of competition and thus more cost-effective. For example, the investor offering the lowest feed-in tariff would be awarded the contract to build a new wind farm.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

While solar and wind provide carbon-free electricity or H 2 through water splitting, they lack the ability to directly produce carbon-based fuels and chemicals without additional carbon sources. Moreover, the cost of the catalyst, specially noble metals, hindered its acceptability. The precious noble metals (Pd, Pt, and Ru, etc.)

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Several companies are striving to develop the concept into a viable commercial solution. Despite the fact that the basic concept of hyperloop technology has been known for many years, it is still in development. Hyperloops: When Can We Hope On One? Hyperloop: How Does It Work? What Distinguishes Hyperloop From High-speed Trains?

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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. Solar mobile charging stations along highways make Long-Haul Journeys possible.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

The long-term goal of hydrogen production and delivery R&D is a high-volume hydrogen cost of. Innovative materials, processes, and systems are needed to establish the technical and cost feasibility for renewable, low carbon hydrogen production. Technical Targets for Catalysts. 2020 Target. FRP material is cheaper than steel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Gas Technology Institute (GTI) will design and build an engineering-scale CO 2 capture system using the Ohio State University transformational membrane process. The project will attempt to achieve DOE’s transformational carbon capture performance goal of CO 2 capture with 95 percent CO 2 purity at a cost of $30 per tonne.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Phase III applications are sought, to further develop and specifically demonstrate a promising system concept for bio-fueled SOFCs in distributed generation applications, with potential commercial viability. Buildings Technologies. Solar Technologies. Wind Technologies.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Whittingham published a paper in Science ; Exxon began manufacturing coin cell lithium batteries, and a Swiss watch manufacturer, Ebauches , used the cells in a solar-charging wristwatch. Moreover, company executives thought Whittingham’s concept was unlikely to ever be broadly successful. Still, there were problems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. Tour Engine, Inc. ,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. More than 540 initial concept papers were received in the three focus areas. Earlier post.) Electrofuels. per gallon.

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EV Info

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Homes and public buildings: Making homes, schools and hospitals greener, warmer and more energy efficient, including a target to install 600,000 heat pumps every year by 2028. Over the next couple of years, you will see more and more hit the market and as technology betters, the cost of electric vehicles will come down.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

While renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, may have some potential to mitigate carbon emissions, this is not seen as a viable large-scale alternative for commercial shipping. Engine concepts include gas-only engines; dual fuel 4-stroke; and 2-stoke. LNG engines currently being produced cover a broad range of power outputs.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When our solar system was very young, there were no planets—only a diffuse disk of gas and dust circled the sun. Some of those planetesimals, as astronomers call them, grew to be hundreds of kilometers across as they swept up more dust and gas within the swirling solar nebula. The Dawn spacecraft used solar-electric propulsion.

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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. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Abengoa Solar Inc.

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