Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Generation 2 moves the Haber-Bosch process to renewable sources of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2023

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting based on solar energy is one promising approach for the production of green hydrogen. The novel photoanodes suppress the undesirable internal and external losses associated with photoelectrochemical water splitting, resulting in an unprecedented photon-to-current conversion efficiency of 12.79%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) produces the required hydrogen by means of solar power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2015

A team of researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have hit a new milestone in their development of a hybrid bioinorganic system for solar-to-chemical energy conversion. In the new system, solar energy is used to split the water molecule into molecular oxygen and hydrogen.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2023

Rivian plans to convert the Starfire Mine in Kentucky to a solar energy center. The conversion is estimated to be a $1 billion solar project. It will be one of Kentucky’s largest renewable power projects once converted. The Starfire Mine, Kentucky, was once one of the largest coal mines in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2013

The combination, suggests the team in paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , could integrate into energy storage and distribution networks to provide a means for renewable energy storage. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels Power Generation' —DiMeglio and Joel Rosenthal.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. We hope that it can be a steppingstone for future sustainable solar fuel production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A team at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) has successfully integrated solar heat into a solid oxide electrolyzer. The experimental setup of the prototype system consisted of a solar simulator, a solar steam generator, a steam accumulator and a solid oxide electrolyzer. Hot steam with a maximum flow rate of 5.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from renewable sources. Just as plants use solar energy to produce sugar, for example, from carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and water in several steps, artificial photosynthesis uses renewable energies to produce valuable chemicals from CO 2 and water through electrolysis with the help of bacteria.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2015

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed an innovative hydrogen-producing photoelectrochemical cell (PEC), using solar-driven biomass conversion as the anode reaction. Most of the earlier work exploring the conversion of HMF into FDCA utilized aerobic oxidation using heterogeneous catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $20 million in funding to advance perovskite solar photovoltaic technologies. ( When used to create solar cells, they have shown potential for high performance and low production costs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. The project is still in the fundamental research stage. —doctoral student Huilei Zhao.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta. Phase 1: Renewable energy.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

EV owners are more likely to add solar panels to their homes, according to a new US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study – here’s why. And conversely, owning photovoltaic panels also has a bearing on whether a homeowner buys an electric vehicle, but not as strongly.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research ( DIFFER ) is partnering with Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to develop a device that absorbs water vapor, and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen directly using solar energy. One of these sustainable fuels is hydrogen, which can be used to store renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A team from Bauhaus Luftfahrt in Germany has analyzed the climate impact and economic performance of solar thermochemical jet fuel production. Schematic of solar thermochemical fuel production path. A solar tower or dish concentration system can deliver the required level of radiative flux. kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

Photo: Oxford PV Oxford PV , a spin-off from the University of Oxford, says it’s achieved the world record for the most efficient solar panel. That’s a big deal compared to the more typical 16-24% in commercial solar panels. Solar power is the MVP of renewable energy, making up a massive chunk of new clean energy sources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The feed-stock reduction is achieved primarily by supplementing the process with oxygen and hydrogen produced by water electrolysis units that are powered by clean wind and solar generated electricity. The DGF high carbon conversion efficiency fuel production strategy meets the highest RSB or ISSC standards of environmental fuel production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). NO x -vs.VOC-limited for O 3 , NH 3 -rich vs. NH 3 -poor for PM). coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The plant will use a proven conversion process, leveraging recent process improvements and technologies to increase sustainability and efficiency. Additionally, the JV is seeking to enable use of green energy to power the conversion process, thereby minimizing and eventually avoiding reliance on natural gas as is the conventional approach.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. As we move to more and more renewable penetration, this intermittency will make a greater impact on the electric power system. —Drake Hernandez.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the main impediments to harnessing solar energy is storage. Solar batteries work as a short-term solution, but not when it comes to long-term storage or to power, say, an entire city. Solar energy and oil wells might sound like an odd combination, but the principle is similar to how geothermal energy would be harnessed.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

While the country is one of the world’s largest producers of wind and solar renewable energy, it faces the issue of renewable energy being weather-dependent and prone to fluctuation. The uses of green methanol for commercial shipping have already been pioneered by Danish shipping giant Maersk.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2017

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recaptured the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting process. Structure of an IMM photocathode configured for water splitting with TEM cross-section of the active layers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Electrocatalysis and photocatalysis (artificial photosynthesis) are among the most promising ways to achieve effective storage for renewable energy. Understanding the nature of the first reaction intermediate is a critical step toward commercialization of the electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion to useful chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2019

Rotterdam The Hague Airport and a European consortium led by EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft mbH signed a cooperation agreement to develop a demonstration plant that produces renewable jet fuel from air. This plant aims to be the first worldwide to offer renewable jet fuel from air to the market.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

Photo: Argonne National Laboratory A five-year study of solar farms planted with wildflowers and native grasses discovered that native bees showed a 20-fold increase in numbers. The scientists collected data from two Enel Green Power North America solar farms in southern Minnesota built on retired agricultural land.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program for technologies that use renewable energy to convert air and water into cost-competitive liquid fuels. ( Conversion efficiency, %. DE-FOA-0001562 ). hydrogen or electricity). H 2 via SMR.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Enel Green Power, through its North American renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, Inc. The project, which is expected to be operational in 2023, will convert renewable energy from one of EGPNA’s solar plants in the United States into green hydrogen to be supplied to a bio-refinery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

SoCalGas) introduced an innovative new solar-powered hydrogen generation system during the California Air Resources Board Technology Expo and Symposium at the University of California, Riverside. STARS converts a record-setting 70% of solar energy into chemical energy. Southern California Gas Co. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2013

million to seven research teams—six from Stanford and one from Carnegie Mellon University—to advance research on technologies for renewable energy conversion to electricity or fuels and for capturing CO 2 emissions and converting CO 2 to fuels. High-efficiency thin-film solar cells.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

In a paper published in the journal Joule , they suggest that the results show great potential for the electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into value-added chemicals. Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is a promising approach to solve both renewable energy storage and carbon-neutral energy cycle.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2022

A glimmer of hope, however, comes from solar fuels. For the first time, scientists and engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have reported a successful demonstration of an integrated fuel production plant for solar kerosene. They also reported good material stability for multiple consecutive cycles.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Later this month (17-19 October), we’re heading to the NEC in Birmingham for Solar and Storage Live 2023. The UK’s leading exhibition for renewable energy will welcome more than 450 exhibitors, 300 speakers and tens of thousands of visitors. The conversation will take place in the ChargEV Theatre on 17 October at 2.50pm.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2020

Statkraft, Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy, has agreed to a deal to help further decarbonize the UK’s power sector and deliver a new approach to managing the stability of the grid. GE Power Conversion will manufacture and install two Rotating Stabilizer synchronous machines at Statkraft’s site in Keith, Moray.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. The new sodium-based molten salt battery uses two distinct reactions. mAh cm −2 , a discharge duration of 28.2

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