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Tesla Virtual Power Plant is providing energy security to Australian homes

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“Even if all lights go out in the neighborhood, you will still have power. 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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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Almost all electrical consumers in production—computers, industrial drives, robots and production technologies, hall lighting and so on—already require direct current.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

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We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. These have no replacements planned to open in the short and medium term. Nuclear 15%.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. and tap clean, renewable energy sources.

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