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Sandia Labs project team building fuel cell cold ironing system for deployment at Port of Honolulu in 2015

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A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Like many operators, the company uses diesel engine generators to provide power to refrigerated containers. Earlier post.).

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Toyota and Servco Pacific pilot test new car share application in Hawaii

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Servco) have partnered to test a new car-sharing technology in Honolulu. When the employee-only pilot testing program concludes, Servco, the distributor of Toyota vehicles in Hawaii, will use the car-sharing technology to launch a new Honolulu-based car share business by the end of 2017. Toyota and Servco Pacific Inc.

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ZSW develops process for Li-ion batteries with extended cycle life; 10,000 charge cycles

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The cells have a power density of 1,100 W/kg. The active materials for the batteries exclusively originate from German companies. The Lithium-ion batteries are intended for use in electric vehicles and as solar power storage systems. That also provides excellent prospects for a long calendar life. In a 2012 paper (Tran et al.)

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NREL data set shows clouds effects on solar power

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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has produced and made available a rich data set showing what happens, second-by-second, when clouds pass over a solar power installation. The study also includes General Electric, the Hawaiian Electric Company and the Hawaiian National Energy Institute.

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Alcoa and Phinergy enter joint development agreement for high energy-density aluminum-air batteries

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Automotive manufacturers are looking for technologies that enable zero-emission cars to travel the same kinds of distances as gasoline-powered cars. The company says that it has also developed an advanced battery management system to increase the energetic utilization of the battery. 2013.11.020. Ponce de LeĂłn, R.J.K. Jones, K.R.

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Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected

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The aftermath was even more calamitous: More than 4,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of the shortage of medical care and basic resources during the extended power outages that followed the storm, according to research reported in The New England Journal of Medicine. How can a microgrid help after a power outage?

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Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

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Although two containers are shown here, the actual number of containers would depend on the power and energy requirements of the vessel to be powered. This practice in which a vessel at berth connects to a source of electricity on the shore is called “cold-ironing”, shore power or Alternative Maritime Power (AMP).

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