Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. BMW i has worked with universities, national laboratories, utilities and industry partners to maximize residential energy efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced nearly $8 million for nine cooperative projects that will complement existing H2@Scale efforts and support DOE’s Hydrogen Shot goal to drive down the cost of clean hydrogen by 80% within the decade. Award amount: $500,000). Award amount: $1,189,000). Award amount: $1,157,219).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

These conductivity-enhanced materials have the potential to lower the costs and impacts of adding renewables and electric cars to the grid, maximize next-generation energy storage technologies, and support electrification for energy-intensive sectors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The 2020 edition of Global Landscape of Renewable Energy Finance highlights however, that while a cumulative US$1.8 Renewable energy investment slightly declined in 2018, with modest growth through 2019. Although this was largely due to the decreasing costs of renewables, the total installed capacity continued to grow.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. of Monrovia, Calif.; Flux Power of Vista, Calif.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Heliostats are mirrors that track the sun in order to reflect highly concentrated sunlight to a receiver, where it can be stored as heat for long-duration energy storage and converted into electricity. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Colorado State University. 8 Rivers Capital.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. Funds for the 13 projects come from the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program. The total cost of the project is $12.4 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2014

a company focused on the exploration and development of minerals for the “new green economy”, will invest in a new graphene-related venture, Graphene Energy Storage Devices (Graphene ESD). Graphene ESD has been formed to commercialize the technology and bring the graphene-based energy storage devices to market.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will make up to $130 million available to develop five new program areas including biofuels, thermal storage, rare earth alternatives, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Related Funding Opportunity Announcements here.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Two of the awardees, Halotechnics and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), also received funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). 1 million to use high-fidelity solar forecasting to predict load impacts on California’s electricity grid and reduce solar integration costs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. Hydrogen and its derivatives could be that fuel, argues a commentary by four energy researchers in the journal Joule.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Standardizing PEV batteries could reduce the purchase and ownership costs of PEVS, as well as addressing additional consumer issues such as maintenance and safety. million to demonstrate renewable energy management using a compressed air energy storage system. The project includes $437,093 in match funding from Anaergia.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2009

The US will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and difficult, according to a new Duke University analysis.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston. tesla magnetic field in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2011

(A) Energy storage potential (ESP) based on annual production of the elements. C) Extraction costs of the elements in the couples, calculated from the USGS prices of the elements. Lifetime system cost, and other factors, will likely limit scale up more than. only for grid-scale batteries? Source: Paul Albertus.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2013

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has joined DOE and research partners in launching the Advanced Management and Protection of Energy Storage Devices (AMPED) program ( earlier post ). Battery Management System Design - Washington University ($2 million).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

The consortium will collaborate with universities such as U of T, Ontario Tech and Waterloo to address some of their material development and technology improvement requirements and characterization. However, the cost of producing MEAs is high and the durability is often poor. Next Generation Membrane Electrode Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

Selected projects must include one or more national laboratories and shall also include partners from one or more of the following: industry, universities, nonprofits, institutes, codes and standards organizations, associations, or other relevant stakeholders. As above, the cost share must be funds-in. Example H2@Scale Topics.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Sendyne, a developer of semiconductor components and advanced circuits for the management of battery systems used for grid storage and EVs, was awarded a new patent for its active balancing technology. More of the total energy storage capacity of all cells is utilized, regardless of variations in capacity from one cell to the next.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The idea, says Daniel Codd , a researcher in renewable energy systems at the University of California, San Diego, is to store solar-produced heat in rock formations below the surface, creating a solar-charged geothermal resource in which heat is stored for meaningful durations. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. In contrast, most of conventional electrolytes fail to work below minus 20 ?C.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

The second-generation concept machine is part of an electric site research project that aims to transform the quarry and aggregates industry, reducing carbon emissions by up to 95% and total cost of ownership by up to 25%. Two PhD students are looking at battery aging and energy management for electric vehicles, as well as functional safety.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher is working to determine how oversized a battery has to be while operating safely and efficiently during its lifetime of use by the US Navy. 200,000 in ONR grants over a three-year period to simulate, design and evaluate a high power Hybrid Energy Storage Module.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

These university-industry partnerships will receive almost $34 million in total project support. This project is led by Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University, in partnership with Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation, Ballard Power Systems, Hyteon Inc., Batteries for grid energy storage and medical devices have similar requirements.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 19 new projects to receive a total of $43 million to develop breakthrough energy storage technologies and support promising small businesses. Advanced Management And Protection Of Energy-Storage Devices (AMPED).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will partner with an industry-academia team led by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) to investigate secondary applications for aged battery packs from electric drive vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications. Crucial to the idea of lowering the cost of battery materials, myo-inositol is an abundant organic compound familiar to industry.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. That would mean installing vast amounts of energy storage, such as. The same basic ideas could work on the electrical grid, too.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

Synthetic fuel production from fuel-combustion-based energy and CO 2 (top) and from atmospheric CO 2 using solar electricity (bottom). That solar fuels offer the promise of solar energy storage—a key challenge in a world predominantly relying on renewables. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?. Demonstrate the integration of 50% variable distributed energy resources on distribution feeders with electric vehicles and building energy management systems by 2020 with high reliability and resiliency.

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Blink Charging

JANUARY 3, 2024

Ensure that every EV driver can use your chargers by purchasing chargers that come with universal payment systems, like the Blink Series 8 Commercial Level 2 EV Charging Station. On your Blink Host Dashboard, you can view data on CO 2 Reduced, Oil Saved, Fuel Saved, and Dollars Saved thanks to your EV sustainability program.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Technically feasible levels of energy efficiency and decarbonized energy supply alone will not be sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, according to a detailed modeling of the California economy performed by a team from Energy and Environmental Economics, the Monterey. Laboratory.

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