Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 158 Tesla Megapack 2 XL battery units are going to be used for load shifting and fast-frequency response services on the Hawaii Electric grid. Plus Power claims that it is “the most advanced battery in the world” due to its wide-ranging grid service capabilities. Get started here.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energy storage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. Earlier post.) This latest funding round will enable Ambri to deliver commercial systems to customers, build its initial commercial-scale manufacturing plant, and continue technology development.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

The system will be installed at the Hawi wind farm on the island of Hawai’i and connected to the Hawai’i Electric Light Company (HELCO) utility grid. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.). The equipment purchase and associated service contracts, valued at approximately $1.8

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Teslarati

JUNE 29, 2022

When Tesla unveiled the Megapack, the company positioned it as a battery that had the potential to render traditional coal and gas-fired peaker plants obsolete. Being grid-scale batteries, Megapacks could perform tasks that are typically assigned to peaker plants. The same is true for China-based battery companies.

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Batteries Battery Hawaii Tesla 76

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2010

has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and the Hawai’i Electric Light Company to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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Wind Hawaii Energy Energy Storage 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Harbor/Hickam, Hawaii; Fort. Smith, Hawaii—SPIDERS is to enable those facilities to operate. independent from the bulk power grid (i.e., Focused on three distinct military. installations—Joint Base Pearl. Carson, Colorado; and Camp. mode”) for extended time periods, with maximum assurance that. sources into the.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. is using pay-as-you-save financing to help transportation companies switch to electric buses. African Clean Energy (Lesotho) produces cookstoves that reduce smoke emissions and solar electricity for small electronics and LED lighting.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Young Brothers, the project’s demonstration partner, is a subsidiary of Foss Maritime Company, a shipping firm which has strong environmental and financial interests in the project. Like many operators, the company uses diesel engine generators to provide power to refrigerated containers. —Sandia’s project manager, Joe Pratt.

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EV Match

JANUARY 13, 2023

That said, EV drivers can also save hundreds of dollars charging overnight instead of during peak hours, or at public charging stations, since many utility companies offer time-of-use pricing. During peak demand, utility companies have to compensate for the surge in power needs by turning on “peaker” plants. Hawaii Power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

Another three are on the West Coast and in Hawaii: Seattle (4), Portland (5), and Honolulu (6). In Atlanta, Nissan workplace outreach has resulted in more than 100 LEAF sales to Southern Company employees. Honolulu, with 26 quick chargers, has one of densest charging grids in the US.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The PB150 PowerBuoy, with a peak-rated output of 150 kW, is the largest and most powerful wave power device designed by OPT to date, and is designed for use in arrays for grid-connected power generation projects. (OPT) has completed the first of its new generation utility-scale PowerBuoy device, the PB150. Earlier post.) The PowerBuoy 150.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2011

A second PB150 is now under construction in the US for an anticipated utility-scale project in Oregon, and the Company is involved in other planned projects in North America, Australia, Japan and Europe that would utilize the PB150 PowerBuoy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Perspective by The Townsend Company. Would a CAFE-type standard for renewable energy generation companies in the USA not also be appropriate? 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.

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2009

How serious is the US about delivering a new Smart Grid system? Well, it’s fair to say the US Department of Energy is willing to put its money where its mouth is, with more than $47million in funding dedicated for eight projects to further smart grid demonstrations in seven states. So what are the projects that will benefit?

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The US Army Tank Automotive Research Centre in Hawaii has this week taken possession of the first of four battery electric ancillary power vehicles with a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability.

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Electric Vehicles Hawaii Escape Vehicles 50

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The work is part of a newly signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between ASU and Sandia to collaborate on algae-based biofuels, solar fuels, concentrating solar technologies, photovoltaics, electric grid modernization and the energy-water nexus.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

billion invested in 180 green-technology companies. incentives, and concerns over the electrical grid are slowing the electric. billion invested in 180 green-technology companies worldwide in the first quarter of 2010, according to a study by the Cleantech Group and Deloitte. Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Kailua, Hawaii) will enhance a numerical model to quantify the relationships between ocean thermal energy conversion discharge component design, device performance, and environmental changes that may result from the discharge plume of ocean thermal energy conversion facilities. DOE Funding: $600,000. Total Project Value: $1,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

Ironically, however, the applicability for these vessels would be when they are visiting ports outside of California (such as Portland (OR), and Tacoma and Seattle (WA)) since the major California ports are currently installing grid-supplied shore power capability at all container terminals. Honolulu, Hawaii; and Seattle, Wash.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. slow charge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

By understanding the characteristics of cloud shadows that pass across a large PV system, utility officials can devise strategies to better manage those fluctuations so the grid isn’t adversely impacted. The study also includes General Electric, the Hawaiian Electric Company and the Hawaiian National Energy Institute.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 21, 2017

Before I knew it I was writing speeches, presentations and special events for Mattel’s CEO and Division Presidents, scripting much of New York Toy Fair, creative directing all the company’s award shows, and even hosting shows on behalf of the company on stage in tuxedos and on the roof of the building in a Barbie pink sport coat.

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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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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp., Mountain View, Calif.—began

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Better Place introduced its electric vehicle (EV) services platform at the Frankfurt Motor Show, in conjunction with Renault’s unveiling of the Fluence ZE Concept with Quickdrop (switchable) battery system and an expanded agreement with Renault, committing both companies to a volume of at least 100,000 electric cars in Israel and Denmark by 2016.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My wife, Zan, and I were recently on the Big Island, Hawaii, and while there we toured the state’s only geothermal plant. Hawaii's 30 megawatt geothermal control room. The rest of Hawaii’s electricity is generated by burning oil. Hawaii's 30 MW geothermal power plant. URL: [link]. By JOHN MARKOFF.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready. No announced plans.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Building Computing Energy Gadgets Investing Smart Grid Transportation Travel ADVERTISEMENT Books that Matter Know Your Eco-Labels Hurray for the Bad Economy! Join Matter Now! Newsletter LinkedIn Twitter Facebook News and ideas for a sustainable world Search 04.17.09 I have never been a big fan of battery swapping.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The Norwegian company just last week met with Gov. Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford. Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up.

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