Electrek

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Italian startup Energy Dome , maker of the world’s first CO2 battery, is officially entering the US market. Energy Dome’s battery uses carbon dioxide to store energy from wind and solar on the grid. The post The world’s first CO2 battery for long-duration energy storage is headed to the US appeared first on Electrek.

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Electrek

JUNE 8, 2022

Italian startup Energy Dome today announced the launch of the world’s first CO2 battery in Sardinia, Italy. The battery uses carbon dioxide to store renewable energy on the grid, and Energy Dome says the technology can be quickly deployed anywhere in the world.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These VPPAs will enable Honda to fully offset the remaining carbon-intensive grid-supplied electricity being used in its Ohio, Indiana, and Alabama automobile manufacturing operations, and will help the company meet its voluntary carbon reduction goal. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The high emissions intensity of refining concentrate to lithium carbonate or hydroxide, in part driven by China’s power grid mix and reliance of coal. The low emissions output from mining equipment and on-site vehicles, despite their comparatively high energy intensity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

Generation of green electricity is synchronized to follow patterns of consumption so that a supply from the grid with green electricity can be guaranteed on a quarter hourly basis. In many previous green power contracts, feed-in to the grid takes place purely on an annual balance basis.

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The Driven EV News

APRIL 4, 2023

Polestar says selling lots of EVs is not enough, it needs also to cut emissions by making grids greener and using suppliers that are powered by renewables. The post Polestar slashes CO2 emissions from EVs through green metals, more renewables appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

EPA decides, for instance, how much of a switch from coal to natural gas is practically feasible by 2020, 2025, and 2030 before the grid collapses, and how high energy prices can go as a result before they become unreasonably “exorbitant.”. There is little reason to think Congress assigned such decisions to the Agency.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2019

Unfortunately, due to our grid situation, electric cars are still too early for this strategic goal in the sense of German climate protection efforts. Buchal, Christoph, Hans-Dieter Karl and Hans-Werner Sinn (2019) “ Kohlemotoren, Windmotoren und Dieselmotoren: Was zeigt die CO2-Bilanz? ”, ifo Schnelldienst 72 (08) (in German).

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Tesla nickel supplier BHP announced that construction on one of the world’s largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems has started. The solar farms and battery will be integrated into TransAlta’s Northern Goldfields remote power grid, replacing power currently supplied by diesel and gas. MW solar farm at Mt.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. With a CO2-neutral energy supply of the plants, we are consistently pursuing this approach and are actively driving sustainability in production. This ensures a reliable power supply even in fluctuating grids.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2015

The Audi e-gas plant in the city of Werlte in Lower Saxony ( earlier post ) produces CO 2 neutral-fuel (synthetic methane from water, renewable electricity and CO 2 ); it now also contributes toward stabilizing the public power grid. This has resulted in the plant being accepted under the direction of grid operator Tennet TSO GmbH.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

At the Tucson site, they are using electricity from the Arizona grid, which gets an increasing amount of power from local solar panels. Commissioning of the facility has already begun, and it is set to begin operation this July. Dimensional’s technology can run on all forms of renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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

APRIL 12, 2022

Mercedes-Benz enables “green charging” at all of the around 300,000 public charging points in the Mercedes me Charge network throughout Europe and ensures that a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable sources is fed into the grid. Additional CO2 savings are expected to be achieved through further measures—i.e.,

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Teslarati

JUNE 7, 2023

Eneco, an energy producer in the Netherlands, is relying on Tesla to power its biggest battery project to date, which will be used to “more efficiently balance Belgium’s electricity grid” and is expected to be operational in 2024. This project is an important step for us towards a CO2-neutral energy system in 2035.”

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2022

While EVs have no "tailpipe" emissions, the grid electricity used to charge them can be a source of carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

The report, Bucks for balancing: can plug-in vehicles of the future extract cash—and carbon—from the power grid? , is based on a research collaboration between a team of engineers from Ricardo and National Grid, the operator of the high voltage electricity transmission system within Great Britain (GB). Click to enlarge.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The upstream, “well to wheel” emissions of the EV are linked to electricity generation and the electrical grid, with lower emissions in regions that use more renewable energy sources. The post How EVs Are Reducing Carbon (CO2) Emissions appeared first on Blink Charging. Let’s not forget our carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

As part of the EU-funded H2FUTURE project, partners voestalpine, VERBUND, Siemens, Austrian Power Grid, K1-MET and TNO are researching into the industrial production of green hydrogen as a means of replacing fossil fuels in steel production over the long term.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2019

The project seeks to address multiple challenges related to the expansion of EVs, including the repurposing of used EV batteries, the expected impact of EV demand and renewable energy on the nation’s utility operators and the integration of EV batteries as a storage solution for the electric grid.

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Teslarati

MARCH 19, 2024

“They play a pivotal role in advancing the Net Zero transition through the reduction of Co2 emissions, and are crucial for securing the future stability of the UK’s energy supply and reducing dependence on foreign gas imports.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2022

Sundsvall Energi, biogenic CO2 supplier and host for FlagshipTWO. The goal is to make the investment decision in late 2023, subject to environmental permitting process and extension of the electricity grid connection. The fuel is intended for the maritime industry to support the transition to carbon neutral shipping.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2019

Today, biogas in grid quality is much costlier to produce than the natural gas it replaces. It even utilizes the CO 2 that makes up about 40% of biogas and typically is costly to separate and vent in production of grid quality biogas. —Peter Mølgaard Mortensen, Principal Scientist at Haldor Topsoe. Heating principles. (A)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane. The wind-to-gas pilot plant “WindGas Falkenhagen” was constructed in 2013 to store wind energy in the natural gas grid. Type of CO2 source (biogas; waste water; atmosphere).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [ 15 ] Electric power grids are designed with capacity to serve the highest power peaks demanded (e.g. PHEVLERs help support the electric grid. PHEVLERs are better than BEVs in support of the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. Each of the 10 2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners will receive $25,000 in prize money. African Clean Energy (Lesotho) produces cookstoves that reduce smoke emissions and solar electricity for small electronics and LED lighting.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2016

The potential WTG CO 2 emission reduction with low carbon grid electricity indicates the potential role electrochemical CO conversion can play in low carbon liquid fuel when the electricity grid is highly renewable or decarbonized.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 20, 2023

One of the most common sustainability goals for businesses is reduce CO2 emissions. And while the energy grid is slowly becoming more “clean” as suppliers switch to renewable sources, business owners can also make a difference. A company that wants to reduce CO2 emissions should review its upstream emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Saratoga Energy has won a National Science Foundation grant to scale up its breakthrough process for generating low-cost, top quality carbon nanotubes from carbon dioxide for use in making high-performance Li-ion batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles, grid storage, and military and aerospace applications.

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Driivz

JUNE 22, 2022

Decarbonization (or decarbonisation) is reducing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere as a component of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Deep decarbonization should also address reducing CO2 emissions in the manufacture, transport, and disposal of road vehicles and their components.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

This CCUS project with Enhanced Water Recovery will eventually inject about 1 million tons of CO2 and create approximately 1.4 In addition, USTDA will conduct three reverse trade missions to bring Chinese delegations to see environmental, smart grid, and CCUS technologies in the United States over the next year.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

And the lifetime CO2 footprint of EVs will get smaller as the grid gets greener. And with smart charging and some upgrades , even urban grids with high EV density should be able to handle the demands of charging, a 2020 Energy Department study found.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2018

Electric vehicle customers typically plug in and charge their vehicles when they arrive home after work, but this early evening charge time is often when demand on the grid is highest and when electricity is the most expensive. Honda SmartCharge is uniquely able to shift electric vehicle charging in real-time without impacting the customer.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Connected and intelligent charge management is one of the many proposed solutions to assist the mass adoption of EVs.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As more renewable energy sources are integrated into the power grid, the overall greenhouse gas emissions associated with EVs can be further reduced. This tool allows users to select specific EV or PHEV models and input their zip code to compare the CO2 emissions from these vehicles with those from gasoline cars.

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Driivz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And the planet benefits when utilities can avoid building more CO2-emitting power plants and use DSM to compensate for the variabilities in solar- or wind-sourced electricity. Increasing supply is costly — a cost passed on to customers in the form of high rates for peak demand hours — and typically increases CO2 emissions.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The company claims that both installations will offset nearly 100% of their grid energy demands, with a total savings over a 25-year expected lifespan that’s expected to exceed $1 million based on projected energy savings.

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