Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It can also be used to buy and store electricity from the national grid when it is cheap and green, for later use. This improves the efficiency of housing association Viva’s own energy system as well as that of the city’s power grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Key distinguishing factors are the environmental footprint of industry, the availability of cheap but clean electricity, a technically skilled labor force, and incentives driving battery demand. France performed best in the environmental category, helped by its electricity grids low carbon emissions factor, at 28gCO2/kWh in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2017

Moixa offers a compact and affordable smart battery for residential customers that helps households to save money by storing spare solar or cheap tariff electricity. In addition, its cloud-based GridShare platform helps manage and aggregate distributed storage resources, thereby delivering grid services and savings for the energy system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

It is not connected to the gas grid. It only uses power from the grid in the winter. We’re using cheap raw materials and don't need precious metals or other expensive components. The solar panel will be under test in Oud-Heverlee, a rural town in Flemish Brabant. Soon, 20 hydrogen gas panels will be added to this mix.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

And because such batteries could be installed and operated just like conventional solid lithium-ion batteries, without any of the auxiliary components needed for a lithium-air battery, they could be easily adapted to existing installations or conventional battery pack designs for cars, electronics, or grid-scale power storage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Cheap and abundant, sodium is a promising candidate for new battery technology. However, the limited performance of sodium-ion batteries has hindered large-scale application. The research team continues to refine their design.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The battery stores power from the grid or from solar panels and stores it for later household use. Asia is another key market, with an incomplete electric grid, and we believe there will be a large market opportunity in North America, where we’re paying twice as much for peak power and need a way to store cheap off-peak power.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years. —Professor Aguey-Zinsou. —Llewellyn Owens, H2Store CEO and Co-founder.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

Nissan and multinational power company Enel will launch the first major vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trial carried out in the UK. By giving Nissan electric vehicle owners the ability to plug their vehicles into the V2G system, owners will have the flexibility and power to sell stored energy from their vehicle battery back to the National Grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2019

Fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (FC-PHEVs) can have extended range while utilizing cheap grid electricity, but has poor durability of onboard fuel cells due to dynamic loading. times, respectively, for an urban, highway and a combined urban-highway driving cycle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In contrast, the LSP method not only saves energy but uses aluminum, a cheap and abundant metal. An array of light beams impinging upon the grid would activate the LSPs. Sharma proposes that a transparent enclosure containing loosely packed carbon and aluminum nanoparticles could be placed over the smokestack of a power plant.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. Economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric.” An open-access paper on their study appears in the journal Nature Energy. Popovich, N.D., Rajagopal, D.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

Since grid-scale electrical energy storage requires hundreds of gigawatt-hours to be stored, the batteries for this application must be inexpensive, robust, safe and sustainable. The vanadium redox flow battery is one such battery technology that has reached an advanced level of development for grid-scale applications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Unlike earlier studies, the CMU team combined detailed modeling of the operating constraints of the electric grid with an estimate of the environmental and health damages from the additional emission due to vehicle charging, in addition to evaluating the change in operating costs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2015

Innovative companies like Tesla give us new options that enable us to reduce our reliance on the grid when prices are high, and EnerNOC’s software gives us the visibility we need to make informed decisions about when to use these technologies and how to measure the impact they're having on our business.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

We see $548 billion being invested in battery capacity by 2050, two thirds of that at the grid level and one third installed behind-the-meter by households and businesses. Coal emerges as the biggest loser in the long run. —Elena Giannakopoulou, head of energy economics at BNEF.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

To compensate for the increased amounts of these inherently–variable sources of electricity, the power grid requires additional flexibility to manage fluctuations in generation. But allowing grid operators to control electric vehicle charging speed could reduce these costs further.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

We need an interactive grid to make this work. We have to change the regulatory requirements to recognize the investments in the smart grid that have to be made. Right now we are operating with a grid that was not adequate at middle of the last century. Gasoline is too cheap. The challenge is demand creation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

Powervault units can also automatically charge using low-cost, off-peak energy from the grid. Powervault is an innovative home battery system, which enables homeowners to increase their ability to store and use the solar energy freely-generated from their own solar panels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

However, grid-scale freshwater electrolysis would put a heavy strain on vital water resources. Developing cheap electrocatalysts and electrodes that can sustain seawater splitting without chloride corrosion could address the water scarcity issue. Dai, Yun Kuang, Michael Kenney).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The lithium, found in salty water, or brines, is the most cost-effective on the market; it’s cheap and easy to extract, giving competing battery gigafactories new, affordable American lithium resources that will be a global game-changer. Even more than hybrid cars, grid storage and the “powerwall” will drive lithium demand through the roof.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

While OEMs and utilities continue to define and refine hardware standards and communication protocols for smart charging, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done in preparing both the grid and the process to accommodate the expected influx of plug-ins, and to make the process as easy as possible for consumers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

All stressed that plug-in technology already exists and just needs a push on the financial front from Congress.&#. Updated to attribute projection on “smart-grid&# earnings to FERC Chairman.). All stressed that plug-in technology already exists and just needs a push on the financial front from Congress. By Judith Burns.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

A*STAR is also conducting research in Solar Photovoltaics, Next Generation Power Grids, Intelligent Energy Distribution, Fuel Cells, Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals and Sustainable Manufacturing. Carbon Capture and Utilization. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2015

The Long-shot quadrant of the Lux Innovation Grid (LIG) has become choked with start-ups with unproven technical value and business execution. This positive commercial traction is an exception rather than the norm, Lux said. Click to enlarge. Lux suggested.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The most popular time to charge vehicles is overnight but as around eight in 10 journeys use less than 18% of the battery and five average length journeys could be completed on one charge, there is now evidence to support the need for intelligent technology that will allow electric vehicles to interact with the national grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Green Car Congress had an opportunity to follow up with Luca Guala of Systematica to learn more about the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system being applied in Masdar. The initial system is likely to be expensive because of prototyping issues but the final PRT system promises to be rather cheap compared to mass transit. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

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. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Silicon based PV, on the other hand, is hugely scalable and relatively cheap. It really isn’t a fair fight. Click to enlarge.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

This project is currently at the stage of conducting grid readiness assessments.] Those guys don’t have the wherewithal to finance a battery-electric truck that costs twice as much as a diesel truck, and they’re usually buying third- or fourth-owner diesels anyway, that are super-cheap. So WattEV is going to offer truck-as-a-service.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2017

Exhaust systems are cheap to install, but generally not the best option for the large volumes of fumes produced by robotic welding applications. The RoboVent Grid™ system is built with standardized, modular components to provide maximum flexibility in a ducted robotic welding system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

If successful, new battery technologies developed under this program will give electrified light-duty vehicles range, performance, lifetime, and cost required to shift transportation energy from oil to the domestically powered US electric grid. Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Cheap gas prices and a strong economy are creating increased goods movement and prompting Californians to drive more. Effective grid management to incorporate this level of renewables remains a key challenge for the state. billion in 2014, up 0.08% from the previous year. and the European Union.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The goal is to develop energy storage systems with high-energy density to meet the ever-demand for the electric grid to provide reliable, distributed power. High-energy density magnesium batteries for smart electrical grids. Earlier post.) These investigations are targeting increased capacitance on the order of 1000 F/g.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), with the intrinsic advantages of resource abundance and geographic uniformity, are desired alternative battery technology to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) for grid-scale energy storage and transportation applications. A paper on their work is published in the journal, ACS Energy Letters.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. A wave of green globalization allows all countries to share in the benefits of decarbonization. The result is a win–win for climate and security. Geopolitical friction is low.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal.

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