Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of.

Energy

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.

Manufacturer

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. grids demands public scrutiny and accountability. The regions are distributed across three separate and largely isolated networks, called “ interconnections ”–Eastern, Western, and most of Texas.

Grid

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

million over two years will improve short-term wind forecasting, which will accelerate the use of wind power in electricity transmission networks by allowing utilities and grid operators to more accurately forecast when and where electricity will be generated from wind power. Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas).

Wind

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. A residential smart charging pilot launching later this year that will reward customers in Colorado for conveniently optimizing their charging times to benefit the grid and use more renewable energy.

Minnesota

Baua Electric

DECEMBER 21, 2024

A coal plant in South Texas will shut down and convert to a solar + battery electricity generation facility, with the help of a $1.4 The grant will go to San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc (SMECI) headquartered in Atascosa County, Texas, south of San Antonio, and serving 340,000 customers 47 South Texas counties. in 2023.

Coal

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Lithium, a critical material used in high-charge-density batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale electricity storage, is a crucial element in the clean energy supply chain. As domestic demand increases rapidly, there is an urgent need to develop safe, secure, domestic, and cost-competitive sources of lithium.

Wyoming

Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. SunHouse is expected to comprise a few thousand homes, and according to Brad Chelton, president of Brookfield Residential Texas, the Tesla Solar and Powerwalls would be available even to entry-level homes.

Neighborhood

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2012

(Tendril will demonstrate how its cloud platform integrates the BMW ActiveE with the home area network to provide orchestrated and prioritized charging at DistribuTECH taking place 24-26 January in San Antonio, Texas.). —Adrian Tuck, CEO at Tendril.

USA

Baua Electric

AUGUST 14, 2024

The EarthStore system will be in Christine, Texas, south of San Antonio, near the SMECI lignite coal power plant. Sage will operate as a merchant, buying and selling electricity to the ERCOT grid. At scale, this energy storage system will be paired with renewable energy to provide baseload and dispatchable power to the electric grid.

Energy Storage

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Imagine the change to this outlook if these companies were required to provide 20 percent of the power they generated from an alternative energy source in order to provide any power to the grid. The market would focus, consolidate and find some very innovative ways to produce low-cost clean energy. in Texas, a 15% swing.)

Renewable

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. Costs for purchasing an eligible Level 2 charger can also be included.

New Mexico

Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2024

Putting a data center right next to a power plant so that it can draw electricity from it directly, rather than from the grid, is becoming more common as data centers seek out cheap, steady, carbon-free power. Proposals for co-locating data centers next to nuclear power have popped up in New Jersey , Texas, Ohio , and elsewhere.

Power

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. —David Wetz.

Arlington

Baua Electric

MAY 9, 2024

Image: Base Power Base Power just became the only licensed electricity provider in Texas to offer customers an all-in-one monthly energy service, home battery, and installation, and solar isn’t required. The upfront cost is a one-time fee of $2,000 to cover installation, and Base offers fixed monthly pricing for electricity.

Texas

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies. National Grid. University of Texas at Austin. Indianapolis Power & Light Company. Kansas City Power & Light. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. New York State.

Obama

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. This grant would allow ConnDOT to upgrade the upcoming purchases of buses and would fund the incremental cost of a hybrid bus compared to a conventional bus.

Emissions

Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

My sojourn from grease monkey to EV advocate By TERESA PORTER; PRESIDENT, HEART OF TEXAS ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Teresa Porter and her Nissan at an outreach event in Texas. In this part of Texas, it’s a mix of a few big cities and a lot of small towns. I won’t even try to take credit for the progress.

Texas

Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2025

Homeowners then pay a lower-than-average rate for the solar energy they produce each month, saving them money compared to typical electricity rates in Texas. The VPP supports the Texas grid, reducing reliance on polluting power plants during times of high demand. Blake Richetta, chairman and CEO of sonnen Inc.

Batteries

Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2025

Heres how it works: SOLRITE installs solar panels and sonnen batteries at eligible customer households with no upfront cost. Homeowners then pay a lower-than-average rate for the solar energy they produce each month, saving them money compared to typical electricity rates in Texas. Blake Richetta, chairman and CEO of sonnen Inc.

Batteries

Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Smart Meters and Needs Smart energy meters as compared to conventional meters provides flexibility in terms of safety, responsive time, storing and reading data remotely, provides wireless communication that enables the feasibility of calculating the overload and underload on grid through a particular area.

Energy

Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid. Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

Solar

Baua Electric

AUGUST 6, 2024

Image: Sunrun Tesla Electric, Tesla’s electric utility division, is partnering with solar installer Sunrun to grow its user base in Texas. Tesla Electric is currently only available to Powerwall owners in Texas and the UK, but the company has plans to expand its products through this new division. Nasdaq: TSLA).

Tesla

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.

IDEA

Baua Electric

AUGUST 12, 2024

Ford and TXU launched the first-of-its-kind program in Texas, offering free home EV charging during select hours. Ford EV drivers can get free EV charging in Texas Ford introduced the TXU Free EV Miles program on Monday, saying it will help significantly lower the costs of home charging for Texas customers.

F-150

Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sterling will bring a unique perspective to the Board, and expand the diversity of the Board to Texas. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

North America

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. VIA’s use of 100% renewable grid power ensures the battery electric buses will truly be zero emissions. City of Lubbock/Citibus.

Purchase

Noodoe

JANUARY 7, 2022

Operation Cost. As with most EVs, the cost of operating a gas-powered vehicle is simply higher than that of operating an electric one. Also, the majority of these vehicles sit unused during the summer when electricity demands are often the highest and take the greatest toll on the power grid. Benefits of electric over diesel.

Fleet

EV Match

JANUARY 13, 2023

For simple installations, this tax credit will cover the entire cost of the project. National Grid – Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island. National Grid is a large utility company in the Northeast. TXU Energy – Texas. TXU Energy is an utility company in the State of Texas. Austin Energy – Texas.

Charging

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

GM says it is working to reduce the amount of time the switchover from grid to car power takes, but that it will inevitably be slower than home battery solutions (which can respond in only a couple seconds, or even less than a second) because those stay continually energized, whereas the car requires more communication and a wake-up process.

Silverado

The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

& On the other hand, it’s easy to forget about the cost of your electric bill, since you pay it once a month and unless you’re in Texas, electrical service is always right there. The problem is, trucks aren’t fuel efficient, which is one reason the great big mythical THEY are coming for your trucks.

F-150

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

I went and spoke to their City Council and said “For $50,000 a house I’ll put in solar AND battery systems and take you off the grid. If you’re going to do it, take the homes off the grid. That’s pretty mean to the rest of the grid. I want to sell power to Texas, because we can. Everything else is wireless.”.

Solar

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The social cost of carbon emissions starts at US$125?t Dramatic improvements in battery technology, coupled with the existing electric drivetrain in predominantly diesel-electric freight trains in the US, pave the way for a rapid conversion to battery-electric freight rail and with substantial cost savings. t –1 by 2040. Popovich, N.D.,

Diesel

Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

According to GM the V2H bundle will initially only be available for purchase in California, Florida, Michigan, New York, and Texas. “We That brings the total component cost to $7,299. in future updates,” said spokesperson Sanaz Marbley to Green Car Reports. It’s good for charging at 19.2

GM

Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sterling will bring a unique perspective to the Board, and expand the diversity of the Board to Texas. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

North America

Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. We got a heartrending reminder of this fact in February 2021, when Texas experienced an. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. unprecedented and deadly winter freeze.

Power Grid

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. power-grid transmission. year grid study from the U.S.

Cleaning