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Estes just offset nearly 100% of its energy needs with rooftop solar

Baua Electric

Estes has partnered with Dynamic Energy on the PV installations at the two terminals in Lakewood and Pine Brook, New Jersey. The New Jersey terminals represent the fourth and fifth terminals Estes has solarized.

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OnStar and Google demonstrate concept service for managing charging Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy

Green Car Congress

OnStar and Google are working together to demonstrate a new OnStar service for managing the charging of Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy, using the 17 Chevrolet Volts in Google’s “Gfleet” based at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Renewables in the US grid. was conventional hydropower. Time-of-Use (TOU) rates.

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Fusion Tech Finds Geothermal Energy Application

Cars That Think

That may sound like a stretch, but the concept was tested in a 1970s experiment in which Bell Labs built a 14 km waveguide transmission medium in northern New Jersey. Quaise Energy has developed a prototype portable gyrotron, which they plan to be conducting field tests with later this year.

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NEESC releases 2015 hydrogen & fuel cell development plans for eight Northeastern states; power generation and transportation

Green Car Congress

Broadly, NEESC observes, demand for new electric capacity is expected to increase, due in part to the replacement of older, less efficient, base-load generation facilities. Fuel cell technology can help meet electric grid needs as a high efficiency, distributed generation asset that can be located directly at the customer’s site.

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CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

Green Car Congress

Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010). Electric (Battery) Emissions Health Smart charging Smart Grid' PJM Interconnection” Environmental Science & Technology doi: 10.1021/es505822f.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

Green Car Congress

California has experienced tremendous success implementing policies that incentivize innovation in business, technology and carbon reduction. The state has become the most energy-productive major economy in the world, moving up three spots from 2013 to 2014, while also reducing its carbon intensity by 4.5%. below their 2006 levels.

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Fighting Climate Change with Clean Energy

EV Match

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. It’s an easy way to add clean energy to the grid and reduce fossil fuel consumption.