Remove Coal Remove Energy Grid Remove Engine Remove Global
article thumbnail

UC Riverside opening Sustainable Integrated Grid Initiative; integration of solar energy, battery storage and electric and hybrid vehicles

Green Car Congress

The testbed, which is located at UC Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), includes: Four megawatts of solar photovoltaic panels. Construction of the initial testbed platform was also supported by an additional $10 million in contributions from UC Riverside and private partners.

Grid 287
article thumbnail

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

Green Car Congress

Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. In Jawor (Poland), a new CO 2 -neutral engine plant is being built. The plant will start operating in 2019.

Germany 170
article thumbnail

IBM Research launches 10y project to support China in transforming national energy systems; “Green Horizon”

Green Car Congress

Dubbed “Green Horizon”, the initiative sets out to surpass current global practices in three areas critical to China’s sustainable growth: air quality management; renewable energy forecasting; and energy optimization for industry. Global urbanization is creating air quality challenges for all major cities around the world.

China 275
article thumbnail

IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

Cars That Think

That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change.