Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

The TCEP would integrate coal gasification, combined-cycle power generation, CO 2 capture, and. This is another important milestone for the Texas Clean Energy Project, coming on the heels of last month’s power purchase announcement with CPS Energy in San Antonio. urea production. CO 2 capture and shipment via pipeline shown at top.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

Texas follows in second with nearly 3.2 There are over 300 utility-scale battery storage projects planned to be brought online by 2025, with roughly half of them being in Texas. Currently, Tesla has pilots for these programs in states including California , Texas and Massachusetts, along with the U.S. As the EIA also notes, U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. power-grid transmission.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

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Teslarati

MAY 14, 2021

And we can also, in working with the utilities, use the Powerwalls to stabilize the overall grid. So let’s say that there’s a–like there was in Texas, there was a peak power demand, and the power demand, because the grid lacked the ability to buffer the power, they had to shut down power,” Musk explained.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

MoveOn Energy, the solar farm’s developer , will install a further 45 MW of power on its own behalf and connect that to the grid by summer 2024. It sits on over 500 hectares (1230 acres) of the former Witznitz II open-cast brown coal mine. From that point the solar farm will feature more than 1.1 million modules.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2016

A US-wide county-level study comparing lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from several light-duty passenger gasoline and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has found that PEVs can have larger or smaller carbon footprints than gasoline vehicles depending on regional factors and the specific vehicle models being compared. Yuksel et al.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Photo: Primergy Solar Solar topped coal’s output in Texas for the first time in any month, sending 3.26 million megawatt-hours (MWh) onto the grid vs. coal’s 2.96 ERCOT’s generation data also revealed that coal’s market share fell below 10% for the first time ever to just over 9%. million MWh in March.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change. This was plain wrong.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. We got a heartrending reminder of this fact in February 2021, when Texas experienced an. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. There are a few possibilities.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 19, 2024

Photo by Kelly on Pexels.com In the first half of 2024, the US power grid got a major boost, with developers and power plant owners adding a hefty 20.2 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric generating capacity. Texas and Florida were at the forefront, contributing 38% of the US solar additions. What’s coming in H2 2024.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

If every home in the United States were to implement these energy-saving technologies, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas—32 million homes—off the power grid. Delta Electric Vehicle Charging Station. Trina Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation System.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

In Germany, renewable electricity generation will be 35 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2050. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? The same can be said for the electricity companies that generate power in the USA. in Texas, a 15% swing.) Source: EIA.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The plant was originally fueled by coal but was converted to natural gas in 2010. However, the Raizen COPI mill exports surplus co-generated electricity to the public grid. The resulting electricity cogeneration and surplus export credit, based on a displacement of Brazilian marginal electricity, is estimated to be 21.86

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

Others are sugarcane molasses ethanol from Guatemala; mixed feedstock to biodiesel from Texas; and a new ARB-staff-developed pathway for North American landfill gas. The Pantaleon facility also generates and utilizes process heat and electricity from bagasse combustion for all its industrial operations. electricity in LFG processing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

Regionally specific lifecycle CO 2 emissions per mile traveled for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the US can vary widely based on grid emission factors (i.e., Under some conditions, the battery electric Nissan LEAF can produce higher emissions than a Toyota Prius hybrid.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 3, 2006

We have diversified sources to meet many of our energy needs (for example, coal, nuclear power, hydroelectric and biomass). clip ) Existing technology allows one other form of energy to serve as a transportation fuel: electricity. Those costs can be reduced far more if such vehicles' batteries can be charged by the electrical grid.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 8, 2022

ISO 15118 is an un-intuitive name for something that seems unbelievably simple: a set of protocols that allows an electric vehicle to communicate with charging infrastructure (like a charging station) so that all you need to do to charge your vehicle is plug it into a compatible port. Despite our dependence on electricity, the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

I went and spoke to their City Council and said “For $50,000 a house I’ll put in solar AND battery systems and take you off the grid. If you’re going to do it, take the homes off the grid. That’s pretty mean to the rest of the grid. I want to sell power to Texas, because we can. Everything else is wireless.”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

In addition to providing the heat for system processes, the CHP generator will provide 7.5MW of green electricity. There has been activity with biomass electrical power generation in the past several months. We can make our facilities custom tailored for a site, corn in Ohio, it might be sorghum in Texas. Efficiency.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

square kilometers of solar farms generate electricity for Taiwan ’ s grid. So sustaining TSMC—and the massive, growing amount of electricity that keeps the company running—has become a high-stakes imperative for Taiwan. Next year TSMC’s share of Taiwan’s electricity could hit 12.5

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

My sojourn from grease monkey to EV advocate By TERESA PORTER; PRESIDENT, HEART OF TEXAS ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Teresa Porter and her Nissan at an outreach event in Texas. I’m probably the last person you’d expect to be passionate about electric vehicles (EVs). I won’t even try to take credit for the progress.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

[The following is an article I wrote in Earth Island Journal last year to answer the question "Public Transit or Electric Car? " ] Greater support for mass transit and appropriate land use policies that make mass transit accessible are essential. There is, however, an alternative path: Electricity.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 26, 2021

"This departs from the status quo in some pretty meaningful ways," says Mike O'Boyle , Director of Electricity Policy at the think tank Energy Innovation. For one, CES would set a clear target, the so-called "80x30" standard: generating, across the US, 80% of electricity by 2030 from clean sources, including renewables, hydro, and nuclear. (In

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Yet he has a fan base inside the world of electric cars. Giga Texas opening – Elon Musk Perhaps that’s been inspired by Musk’s massive job cuts at X (formerly Twitter), and at Tesla, where Musk nearly fired the entire Supercharger team earlier this year. That said, coal is no longer specifically one of Trump’s crusades in 2024.

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