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New York City Department of Sanitation Testing Four Different Hybrid Trucks

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The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) will be testing in daily operation three different types of hybrid refuse collection trucks and a hybrid rack truck. The trucks were unveiled at the Parks & Recreation Department’s 21 st Annual Vehicle & Equipment Show in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens.

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NYSERDA awards $1.4M to 6 projects for advanced energy storage technologies; Electromotive and Ioxus for heavy-duty hybrids

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This is the second of three rounds of funding to help members of NY-BEST move promising technologies toward commercialization. NY-BEST is an industry-focused coalition working to establish New York as a global leader in energy storage technology for heavy-duty transportation, electric grid and other storage applications.

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US DOE Awards More than $47M in Recovery Act Funding to Advance Smart Grid Development; New Smart Grid Report and Smart Grid Clearinghouse

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The US Department of Energy delivered more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for eight projects to further smart grid demonstration projects in seven states. The $47 million in new Recovery Act awards will support existing projects that are advancing demonstration-scale smart grid technologies.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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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. year grid study from the U.S.

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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

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Delivery vans, commercial-use vans, and pickup trucks are considered light-duty vehicles. Electric school buses equipped with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology also have tremendous potential as “batteries on wheels” that can store electricity and provide it to the grid or to buildings when needed. and Europe.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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Large commercial trucks and other heavy equipment have run on diesel fuel for many decades now. Requirements for more aggressive emission after-treatment and the hardware to achieve that add cost and complexity for fleet operators. hours—at the cost of longer installations, more infrastructure work, and higher charging station costs.

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Researchers Aim to Decarbonize Chemical Industry by Electrifying It

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We are able to model how these reactions would be implemented in the chemical plant and we are able to consider how the grid and chemical plant would work synergistically together.” And research can be rapidly translated into commercial solutions. While still new, the initiative is ramping up its activities.