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Topsoe and First Ammonia sign 5GW electrolyzer agreement for green ammonia

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Topsoe’s SOEC manufacturing plant is to be built in Herning, Denmark, and has recently received FID from the board. First Ammonia will operate all its plants dynamically to support existing renewable power markets. At 5GW, this would be the largest electrolyzer reservation of any type. —Joel Moser, CEO of First Ammonia.

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Nissan and Enel to launch major V2G trial in the UK; LEAF and e-NV200

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A trial comprising 40 V2G units began in Denmark in January 2016. The announcement follows the signing of a partnership agreement between Nissan and Enel in Paris in December 2015 during the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to trial V2G technology in Europe. Earlier post.)

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Solar and Battery Companies Rattle Utility Powerhouses

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Analysts and power insiders sketch scenes including interconnected local renewable grids that draw on short-duration battery storage (including the small batteries in electric vehicles in a garage, models for which Tesla just happens to make) combined with multi-day storage for power generated by wind and solar.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. “The more fluctuating energy you have from renewables, the more it makes sense to have a smart grid,&# said Markus Ewert from the new technologies team of German utility E.ON The infrastructure is already there.&#

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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And these EVs are powered mostly by renewable energy. But the Netherlands (like some other Euro countries, e.g., Denmark) still suffers from some semi-permanent incentives instability so 2021 started a bit slow. Domestic EV sales increased “only” from 13% to 22% and almost touched 100k, so pretty darn good in absolute terms.

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