Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Photo: Xcel Energy Xcel Energy has started delivering clean energy from one of the US’s largest solar farms: Sherco Solar in Minnesota. It’s a major step in the utility’s push to ditch coal and move to renewable energy across the Upper Midwest. What’s notable about Sherco Solar is not just its size but also its cost efficiency.

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Coal Solar Minnesota Tax Credit 98

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

90% is from coal. Small non-circle icons indicate EVs (e-car: triangle-icon; e-bike: plus-icon), with emission factors that vary among the 15 electricity grids. Unique aspects of China include the large population and coal-heavy electricity system. In China, 85% of electricity production is from fossil fuels, of which ?90%

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Emissions China Gasoline-Electric Fleet 252

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). Emissions are represented in 12 km resolution grids. Click to enlarge.

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution 236

Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2025

million people across Minnesota and Wisconsin, has partnered with Prisma Photonics to roll out real-time monitoring technology across 90 miles of transmission lines in northern Minnesota. Prisma Photonics will provide its PrismaPower system to track threats like wildfires, ice, wind, and physical damage to the Minnesota grid.

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Grid Minnesota Solar Installation 52

Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2016

In North America, an electric car charged on even the dirtiest, most coal-intensive electric grid in the nation. After more than a dozen studies and five-plus years of plug-in car sales, we know the answer.

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Minnesota Emissions Electric Cars North America 60

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2016

Jeremy Michalek accounted for regional differences in emissions due to marginal grid mix; ambient temperature; patterns of vehicle miles traveled (VMT); and driving conditions (city versus highway). The researchers said this is due to the combined effect of grid carbon intensity, highway driving, and regional temperature.

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Gasoline Plug-in Prius Plug 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2014

There are three reasons for this lack of observed effect, they concluded: (1) at present the overall share of emissions from the LDV sector is only 20% of US CO 2 emissions; (2) EDV charging can still produce comparable emissions to conventional vehicles depending on the grid mix; and (3) the effect of other sectors on emissions is significant.

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Emissions Oil Prices Vehicles Oil 236