Coal Grid Industry Stimulus 
Green Car Congress
MAY 19, 2011
Among the findings of the survey: Approximately one-third (33.8%) of respondents felt the lack of investment to modernize the grid is a primary roadblock preventing the widespread support of EVs. 19% of those surveyed indicated the government should bear the primary burden of developing and funding an EV infrastructure or smart grid.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2011
Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? The automotive industry is living proof that private companies will rarely change their behaviors without a significant stimulus to that change, and furthermore one that needs to be mandated. Power plant capital costs.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 20, 2017
The overarching objective of the study is to analyze the scale and scope of investments in low-carbon technologies in power generation, transport, buildings and industry (including heating and cooling) that are needed to facilitate such a transition in a cost-effective manner, while also working towards other policy goals. Around US$3.5
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2009
The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. Annual investment in the global renewables industry had grown from $16.5
Revenge of the Electric Car
APRIL 6, 2010
billion in stimulus grants to the industry. On the Grid. The study also considered how much strain electrical vehicles might put on the city’s electrical grid. It concluded that if the number of electric vehicles reaches about 50,000 vehicles by 2015,&# it would not have an impact on the grid, according to Post.
Green Car Congress
MAY 27, 2009
Wendel Dreve and Marion Gilliland have dedicated the past five years to pursing their dream of transforming the corn ethanol industry. First, the industry is approaching the ethanol-to-gasoline blend wall of 10% ethanol, 90% gasoline in standard gas engines. All of these issues are contributing to excess capacity in the industry.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.
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