Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2022

The simulation study demonstrates that efficient control of the energy storage system not only reduces the energy costs of the entire wireless charging road system but also alleviates the pressure produced by the wireless charging load on the existing power grid. —Jie Shi, lead author. Jie Shi, H. 2022.119619.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2022

The California Energy Commission (CEC) adopted a report establishing offshore wind goals and moving the state one step closer to development of the clean energy resource off California’s coast. Additional transmission infrastructure will be needed to deliver offshore wind energy from this region to the grid. Maxwell, Sara M.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Through the JuiceNet platform, these facilities can be remotely controlled and aggregated for grid balancing purposes relying on unidirectional and bidirectional (vehicle-to-grid, V2G) electricity flows. eMotorWerks has deployed more than 25,000 smart-grid enabled charging stations to date.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

Now entering its third phase, ChargeForward originally launched in 2015 to test the ability of EVs to support the electric grid and provide benefits to customers through vehicle-grid-integration applications that enable smart charging and demand response.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The system was built using batteries reclaimed from electrified vehicles (HEV, PHEV, BEV, FCEV) and is connected to the consumer electrical power grid. JERA and Toyota began discussions in 2018 to establish battery reuse technologies, which eventually led to this large-capacity, grid-connected Sweep Energy Storage System.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2021

The infrastructure costs required to transition to electric trucks is significant. The use of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar and energy storage, managed charging and incentives to bring down the upfront cost of charging systems will be critical to this transition, the authors said.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 24, 2022

As the costs of climate change and the price of oil both become too high to bear, auto manufacturers will shift more of their vehicle fleets to electric. As it stands, the power grid is already run-down and outdated , built for the electric loads of a century ago, not for modern life. OpenADR can even turn fleet into an asset.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), California’s non-profit grid operator, released its new five-year (2012-2016) strategic plan. Between now and 2020, wind and solar generation will quadruple within the ISO transmission grid at the same time electric vehicle charging increases significantly.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

The report, Bucks for balancing: can plug-in vehicles of the future extract cash—and carbon—from the power grid? , is based on a research collaboration between a team of engineers from Ricardo and National Grid, the operator of the high voltage electricity transmission system within Great Britain (GB). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

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. —Allison Weis. 2013.10.017.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2011

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. resource constraints, they found. only for grid-scale batteries? What is the cost of the elements in the couple (in $/kWh)? Suitability.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

In most cases the existing technology grid can accommodate truck charging at depots. That perception is shifting, and our research suggests that certain short-haul operations can be electrified today with relatively low-power depot charging that won’t overwhelm the grid. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Energy. Borlaug, B.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

microgrid, distributed energy resource management systems) integrated with DC charging, vehicle grid integration, high-power scalable/interoperable wireless charging, and vehicle-oriented systems. The EVs@Scale lab consortium formed in response committed to develop a 2022 roadmap like the earlier ANSI EV standards roadmap.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2012

A new policy brief published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) International Transport Forum (ITF) notes that existing electricity systems will need to be reconfigured to support the widespread adoption of electric mobility and suggests that Smart Grid technologies and EVs and EVs could be mutually beneficial.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Li-ion battery maker A123 Systems will supply a Grid Battery System (GBS) to Maui Electric Company (MECO), a utility serving residents and businesses on the islands of Maui, Lanai and Molokai in Hawaii. The system, NSTAR’s first battery energy storage project, is proposed for installation at a substation in Medway, Mass. Maui Electric.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. These methodologies will significantly decrease the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of the final HKT design.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

Working with a select group of BMW i3 drivers, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to improved electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership. BMW i Home Charging Services.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Spinning reserves are power generation or storage assets that can come online quickly to serve as bridge power for the grid to maintain system frequency stability during emergency operating conditions and unforeseen. generation; and the ability of a grid operator or vertically integrated utility to call upon. load swings.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

Electric vehicles powered from a clean grid are an essential step in the right direction. Electrifying vehicles adds yet more weight. Ultimately, to manage climate change, the world needs to stop emitting greenhouse gases from vehicles and power plants. —Shaffer et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

In a paper in Nature , they suggest that the use of such redox-active organic molecules instead of redox-active metals represents a new and promising direction for realizing massive electrical energy storage at greatly reduced cost. —Huskinson et al. Background.

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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: $1,189,000). Award amount $1,000,000). NREL, Renewable Innovations, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

When anticipated improvements to electric vehicles and future electrical-grid decarbonization are factored in, a fully electric USPS delivery fleet would result in up to 63% lower greenhouse gas emissions than the agency estimated, over the lifetime of the fleet. The Postal Service analysis looked only at use-phase emissions. 2c02520.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

A recent report by a group called Synapse Energy Economics examined how much electric car owners paid for electricity and compared that with the cost for utilities to build, generate, and distribute that electricity. The results of our analysis indicate that, since 2011, EVs have contributed much more in utility revenues than costs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

The US has offshore wind resources estimated at more than 4,000 gigawatts, with strong, consistent winds located in the Atlantic, Pacific, the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. LCOE is the sum of all annual costs divided by the amount of electricity produced per year.). Funding is subject to Congressional appropriations.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Then it takes the DC from the bus, or car, and converts it back to AC to provide power for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

million in development funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to support research aimed at significantly reducing the current costs of electrical vehicle (EV) chargers and developing “smart” charging capabilities that support power grid efficiency and consumer demand. In 2012, Siemens was awarded $1.6 Appliance connection.

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

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The results from this study suggested a cost of hydrogen as low as ¥17 to ¥27/Nm 3 (US$0.16 - $0.25) using a combination of technologies and the achievement of ambitious individual cost targets for batteries, PV, and electrolyzers. For comparison, the US DOE’s 2020 target for the levelized cost of hydrogen (production only) is $2.30/kg.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

There’s a lot of speculation about the effects widespread EV adoption will have on the electrical grid, but until now, little hard data. A recent study has found that, so far, EVs are having a salutary effect on the grid, saving ratepayers billions of dollars on their electricity bills.

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Setec Powerr

MARCH 22, 2024

These systems enable energy users to manage their energy use more effectively, improve energy efficiency, and reduce dependence on the traditional grid. As a result, it would require notable investment in EVCI and grid upgrading to pare the growth.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Mohan et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

What Californians pay is much higher than the true marginal cost of using electricity. This puts an unnecessary cost burden on low- and middle-income households as we transition to using clean electricity. These households are increasingly responsible for covering high fixed costs as total consumption from the grid declines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2020

Tidal and riverine energy resources are renewable, have the advantage of being highly reliable and predictable, and are often co-located with demand centers, while HKT devices can be designed with low visual profiles and minimal environmental impact. DE-FOA-0002334 ).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) is asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to allow Limited Energy Storage Resources (LESR)—which includes battery and flywheel technologies—to provide the “regulation” service needed to balance electrical supply and demand on the grid. Whitley, NYISO President and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

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).

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