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The broadband buildout has been seriously hampered by Nigeria’s unreliable power grid. Beyond the mere inconvenience of frequent outages, the poor quality of electricity drives up costs for operators and customers alike. The spotty power grid means that standard telecom equipment needs backup power.

Nigeria

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MARCH 10, 2013

A plot of ESOI for 7 potential grid-scale energy storage technologies. Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. Click to enlarge.

Energy Storage

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APRIL 7, 2011

Total Smart Grid costs. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has released a broad assessment of the costs and benefits to modernize the US electricity system and deploy the smart grid. The analysis updates EPRI’s 2004 EPRI assessment, which estimated the cost of implementing a smart grid at $165 billion.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

The new app, called EcoHub, will initially be tested with and available to residents of the Pecan Street demonstration project, a smart grid living community in Austin. For the first time we’re able to put one of our Smart Grid solutions into the hands of actual consumers, thanks in part to our partnership with Pecan Street.

Volt

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JUNE 4, 2011

The Grid Integration Tech Team (GITT), comprising the domestic automotive industry, electric utilities, and DOE programs and national laboratories, identifies two major task areas that need to be undertaken to achieve its vision of transitioning EVs from early market acceptance to mainstream adoption of millions of vehicles by 2020.

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AUGUST 22, 2009

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded EnerNex Corporation a contract to help NIST sustain the accelerated development of the hundreds of compatible standards that will be required to build a secure, interoperable smart electric power grid. Tags: Infrastructure Smart Grid.

Grid

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JANUARY 8, 2015

The California Independent System Operator (ISO), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) unveiled a comprehensive roadmap to assess the current market environment and regulatory policies for connecting new energy storage technology to the state’s power grid. —California Roadmap.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Anticipated price hikes for coal and natural gas could lead to increase use of renewable energy in electricity generation, making both the grid and EVs cleaner, according to new United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysis.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

DOE also released two companion ESGC reports: the 2020 Grid Energy Storage Technology Cost and Performance Assessment and the Energy Storage Market Report 2020. These reports provide data that informed the Roadmap and provide accessible and easily referenced information for the entire energy stakeholder community.

Energy Storage

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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. —Chi-Jen Yang of the Duke-based Climate Change Policy Partnership (CCPP).

Power Grid

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APRIL 9, 2011

The SunShot Initiative aims to reduce the total cost of solar energy systems by about 75%—to roughly $1 per watt—before the end of the decade. More information and application requirements for each Funding Opportunity Announcement is available on the Funding Opportunity Exchange website.

Solar

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JANUARY 29, 2021

The Electrification Coalition has introduced its EV Policy Showroom, offering policymakers, EV advocates, industry partners and other stakeholders online access to easily navigable data and policy information on the deployment and adoption of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.

Financing

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. The committee also separately derived a range of values for damages from climate change; the wide range of possibilities for these damages made it impossible to develop precise estimates of cost. Damages are expressed in cents per VMT (2007 USD).

2005

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron, already the largest thermal heavy oil producer, is optimizing thermal production in heavy oil fields by leveraging information technology to improve the percentage recovery as well as the economics. Most oil majors and service companies have developed or are leveraging information technology for field management—i.e.,

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JUNE 19, 2009

Smart Grid electric transportation applications summary communications diagram. The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released for public review a report that identifies issues and proposes priorities for developing technical standards and an architecture for a US Smart Grid.

EPRI

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Key deliverables will include: A publicly accessible tool that characterizes the costs of blending and its potential to reduce emissions relative to alternative pathways (e.g., The United States has an extensive network of approximately 3,000,000 miles of natural gas pipelines and more than 1,600 miles of dedicated hydrogen pipeline.

Hydrogen

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Distributed wind energy systems are commonly installed on residential, agricultural, commercial, institutional, and industrial sites, connected either physically or virtually on the customer side of the meter (to serve on-site load) or directly to the local distribution or micro grid (to support local grid operations or offset nearby loads).

Wind

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AUGUST 6, 2022

The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a variety of vehicle-fuel pathways; the levelized cost of driving (LCD); and the cost of avoided GHG emissions. It is hard to overstate the importance of the improvements in battery costs on this analysis.

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MAY 6, 2022

million in funding for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to develop three new pilot programs to test how bidirectional electric vehicles (EVs) and chargers can provide power to the electric grid and other benefits to customers. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved $11.7

Grid

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) released two Requests For Information (RFIs). Sub-categories include: Grid Transmission; Grid Distribution; Modeling, Software, Algorithms, And Control For The Grid; Batteries - Grid Scale; Grid Scale (Non-Battery) Storage; Grid Security; Grid – Other.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Highlights from the report include the following: To reach the 2045 target while electrifying other sectors to meet the state’s economy-wide climate goals, California will need to roughly triple its current electricity grid capacity. A clean electricity grid is necessary to achieve economywide carbon neutrality.

Cleaning

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MAY 1, 2012

The costs of providing a low-speed leased BEV for local city use is far less than trying to replicate the current ownership model of all-purpose long-range ICE vehicle. System-level implications include the decarbonization of the grid and the addition of additional generation capacity. —Tran et al.

Industrial

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NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to accepting payment, the app will show the hourly rate of charging, the estimated time for a full charge and the estimated cost of a full charge. A passive device, such as an NFC tag, contains information that other devices can read but does not read any information itself. Active devices can read information and send it.

Charging

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AUGUST 6, 2013

Source: “Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”. The report identifies insights about the choice of charging infrastructure in each region that will both maximize benefits to consumers (thus helping to drive EV adoption) and maximize benefits to the grid from greater EV use. —“Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”.

Europe

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JUNE 17, 2011

C) Extraction costs of the elements in the couples, calculated from the USGS prices of the elements. only for grid-scale batteries? What is the cost of the elements in the couple (in $/kWh)? started by noting that batteries for grid-scale and electric vehicle energy storage have significantly different performance requirements.

Ni-Li

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AUGUST 15, 2019

It will also be more economical than conventional turbine engines, or even the battery-based systems, on the total cost basis. He previously founded and was the CEO of eMotorWerks, a smart grid electric vehicle charging company acquired in 2017. These tests confirm the company’s fuel economy and maximum power delivery targets.

Hydrogen

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Electricity from all sources flows into the grid and is used to meet instantaneous system-wide demand. Yet owners of existing electrified vehicles are unlikely to vary their charging habits according to the quantity of bioelectricity on the grid.

Fuel

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

DES systems consist of small, stationary batteries installed in neighborhoods, buildings, homes and electricity substations, which can be networked together using smart grid communications technology. permit DES system operators to be compensated for the full range of grid benefits. value proposition.

Energy Storage

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AUGUST 24, 2011

In the face of this trend, manufacturers will integrate their equipment with external storage units, home energy management systems, and smart grid equipment to add value and increase their revenue —senior analyst John Gartner. By 2015, residential EVSE will make up 34% of the market, with nearly as many public charging spots added.

2017

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on potential early markets and deployment opportunities for hydrogen and fuel cells. DOE seeks information on other sources of excess and/or waste hydrogen, including hydrogen-containing waste gases. The 2015 cost target was $2-$3/gge.

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APRIL 28, 2011

The analysis compared the present value of benefits with the estimated costs for energy storage systems installed in various regions across the US. There are a wide range of potential benefits for energy storage applications and when aggregated, these benefits can justify the costs of installing storage in many places.

EPRI

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APRIL 20, 2010

With an Hitachi Automotive Systems- and Airbiquity-created platform forming a central hub in the smart-grid network, the partnership paves the way for creating gateway infrastructures that can be linked with smart-grid systems.

Connect

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MAY 14, 2010

Average fuel consumption, calculated by combining fuel consumption during operation on electric power from grid charge and fuel consumption during hybrid operation after depletion of the battery pack is 37.6 Grid charge time for the battery is approximately 1.5 km/L on the JC08 cycle (88.4 mpg US, or 2.7 hours @ 100V and 1h at 200V.

Suzuki

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Batteries and electrical energy storage technologies are pivotal and straddle two major energy sectors: the grid and transportation. Furthermore, the current cost of EV batteries is about $650/kWh—much greater than an estimated target of $125/kWh of usable energy for widespread implementation.

Energy Storage

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The daily operational costs of a vessel have now surpassed its daily building costs. Fuel accounts for between 30-40% of the cost of running a cruise ship and between 50-60% for most merchant vessels. Earlier this year, ABB won its first order for this new system. Earlier post.).

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JULY 15, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Draft Roadmap and a Request for Information (RFI) seeking stakeholder input on the Draft Roadmap. The track will be continuously updated and informed by the evolving challenges and concerns of the policy, regulatory, and planning bodies who need them most.

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