Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

A 1 megawatt (MW)/2 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery energy system powered by LG Chem batteries has been commissioned for Southern Company and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) at a solar photovoltaic (PV) facility in the Southeastern region of the US. —Sunghoon Jang, SVP, Energy Solution, LG Chem.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Hydro-Québec has joined a Ford-EPRI North America-wide demonstration and research program on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). EPRI has identified nine utilities across North America to test drive the vehicles and collect data on battery technology, vehicle systems, customer use and grid infrastructure. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2010

Eaton Corporation is collaborating with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on a prototype integrated solar-assisted electric vehicle charging station to be erected at EPRI’s research laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn. Source: EPRI. Simple block diagram of the SMART system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Widespread adoption of electric transportation, including electrification in the off-road sector, could lead to substantial reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and could modestly improve air quality, according to a new analysis released by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2011

The announcement of US DRIVE marks the addition of two new members that bring additional focus on electric-drive vehicle technologies to the partnership: the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Tesla Motors. Energy industry: BP America, Chevron Corporation, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil Corporation, and Shell Oil Products US.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

Sierra Northern Railway is the freight division of privately-owned, Sierra Railroad Company. Sierra Railroad Company is also the principal owner of Sierra Energy Corporation, which has developed a proprietary waste-to-clean-hydrogen technology: FastOx gasification.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Through its Charging Perks pilot, Xcel Energy is directly working with BMW, Ford, General Motors, and Honda to test how the company can help customers charge their EVs at times when they can save money, use more renewable energy, and when it is most optimal for the energy grid. Achieving our EV vision to have 1.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and partners will perform a pre-front end engineering design (pre-FEED) study on the integration of a 10 MWhe (megawatt-hour electricity) SandTES pilot system into Alabama Power’s Ernest C.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

VIA Motors, a electric vehicle development and manufacturing company, signed a contract worth $20 million to build and to deliver extended-range electric pick-up trucks and vans to more than 50 participating fleets. VIA Motors’ extended-range electric vehicle (E-REV) powertrain. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2013

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the California Energy Commission today unveiled a utility-scale sodium-sulfur battery energy storage system ( earlier post ) pilot project to better balance power needs of the electric grid. EPRI’s reports will be made available to the public.

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JUNE 6, 2013

About 120 work trucks, to be used by publicly owned utilities and municipal electric companies, will utilize advanced plug-in hybrid power systems by Odyne Systems, LLC, using Johnson Controls'' batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Founded in 1992, USCAR is the collaborative automotive technology company for Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors. The goal of USCAR is to further strengthen the technology base of the domestic auto industry through cooperative research and development.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Among the projects selected are one by GM and EPRI of California to improve welding techniques for automobile manufacturing and power plant builds in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). GM and EPRI. Partners range from small to large companies, industry consortiums and institutes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

Eaton will work with grant recipient South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and other affiliates, including the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), Altec Industries, Compact Power Inc., Mark Duvall, director of Electric Transportation at EPRI.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

A pilot project by We Energies, Alstom and The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) testing an Alstom advanced chilled ammonia process ( earlier post ) has demonstrated more than 90% capture of carbon dioxide from the flue stream of a coal-fueled power plant in Wisconsin (the Pleasant Prairie Carbon Capture Pilot Plant ).

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AUGUST 12, 2015

General Electric Company. will partner with GE Global Research, EPRI, Southern Company, American Electric Power and FirstEnergy to design and test a high temperature nickel-based superalloy thick-walled header for cycling and flexible plant operation in new and existing plants. General Electric Company. Alstom Power Inc.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. Ford’s key partners in this effort include: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). and its parent, Atlanta-based Southern Company.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Also, seven regional electric utility partners are joining Ford and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to conduct real-world tests on an expanding fleet of Ford Escape PHEVs. and its parent, Atlanta-based Southern Company. Arshad Mansoor, EPRI vice president of Power Delivery and Utilization. DTE Energy of Detroit.

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Green Cars News

JULY 31, 2014

Eight carmaker, 15 utility companies and the US-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) will unite to work together in the development a new standardised smart grid system which should make the management of electric car charging easier. The new system would allow utility companies to commu[.]. Electric cars'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), along with several auto manufacturers, utilities, and regional transmission organizations, will demonstrate the Open Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) Platform software system, developed by EPRI and Sumitomo Electric Industries. Earlier post.). Auto manufacturers are American Honda Motor Co.;

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MAY 5, 2009

In a post on GM’s FastLane blog, Vice Chairman Tom Stephens said that the company will apply plug-in hybrid technology to one of the four core brands remaining after the restructuring: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC. of Energy (DOE) and nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 1, 2008

Here's one of the announcements that came out of the conference : EPRI, GM, 34 Utilities Collaborate to Advance Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles PALO ALTO, Calif. Additionally, research released last year by EPRI and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) pointed to the potential of PHEVs to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Power companies trim trees and inspect lines on a regular—if not particularly frequent—basis. My organization, Buzz Solutions , is one of the companies providing these kinds of AI tools for the power industry today. We worked with EPRI and power utilities to create guidelines and a taxonomy for labeling the image data.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The utility is participating in a national consortium that recently was awarded a federal stimulus grant to purchase plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and the company is buying more trucks to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as well. PECO is expanding its fleet with new natural gas and hybrid electric models.

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APRIL 22, 2009

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) also has signed an LOI to provide USPS integration tools. Earlier this month, Chrysler announced A123Systems as one of its strategic partners and production battery supplier for the company’s initial production electric vehicles.

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MAY 28, 2010

In addition to ORNL, the members of the team are: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Westinghouse Electric Company. Idaho National Laboratory. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. North Carolina State University, Sandia National Laboratories. Tennessee Valley Authority. University of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Clean Coal Power Initiative Round III Selections include: American Electric Power Company, Mountaineer Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Demonstration. million metric tons per year) in a 235 MW flue gas stream at the existing 1,300 MW Appalachian Power Company (APCo) Mountaineer Power Plant near New Haven, WV. Earlier post.).

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EV Connect

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

EV Software Interoperability: A Closer Look As the demand for public EV charging stations increased, many companies like EV Connect began providing charging stations and corresponding software. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Northern Arizona University. Sources J.D.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

EPRI will team with Dooher Institute of Physics and Energy, Worley Parsons Group, Inc., Teaming with the University of California at Irvine, Southern Company, and ConocoPhillips, TDA Research will demonstrate the technical and economic viability of a new IGCC power plant designed to efficiently process low-rank coals. (DOE

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

a producer of plug-in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and partner Silver Spring Networks, a provider of smart grid solutions, are participating in a plug-in electric vehicle (EV) pilot program sponsored by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). ClipperCreek, Inc.,

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The projects, led by universities, private companies, and national laboratories, were selected to develop technologies to advance UNF recycling, reduce the volume of high-level waste requiring permanent disposal, and provide safe domestic advanced reactor fuel stocks. Earlier post.) Award amount: $1,520,000). Award amount: $5,000,000).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

Other infrastructure companies include Better Place, NRG Energy and Southern California Edison. JARI (Japan); EPRI; KAIST (Korea); University of Tennessee; Underwriters Laboratories; TÜV North America; and California Department of Transportation are also involved. There is heavy involvement from industry and government in the effort.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

In December 2010, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) revised its methodology and cost figures for technologies within specific applications. Companies that can financially sustain themselves through the EV ramp will succeed in the long run, assuming that they have the technology and auto industry credibility.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Special interests who preferred to maintain the internal combustion status quo (read oil and auto companies) have long needed to plant seeds of doubt. Because people naturally, logically believe electric cars are a good idea. Dubious presumptions about PHEV usage lead the authors to minimize any potential petroleum and emissions reductions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Momentum is building as governments, technology companies, communities and universities are increasingly working together to prepare the market for electric vehicles. —Ed Ed Peper, GM North America vice president, Chevrolet. GM says it is working on plug-in commercialization on several other fronts.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. I did, too, until Ford confiscated the cars and sold the company. Now the relationship with EVs may be going further still.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Sion Power Corporation, a Brookhaven National Laboratory spin-out company, will develop an ultra-high energy Lithium-Sulfur battery able to power electric vehicles more than 300 miles between charges, with and energy density of 500Wh/kg that is 3x that of current Li-ion batteries. PolyPlus Battery Company. Wildcat Technologies, EPRI).

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