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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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. How fast can you ramp your power plants up and down to handle the variability from wind and solar?

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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. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Real weighted average cost of capital is 7.5% Source: IRENA.

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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

APRIL 30, 2019

—co-author Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). However, these reduced emissions came at a high cost. —Michael Greenstone.

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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

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

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. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. Reduction in annual generation cost and external emissions costs due to controlled charging compared to uncontrolled charging ($2010).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a new lithium/polysulfide (Li/PS) semi-liquid (flow) battery for large-scale energy storage, with lithium polysulfide (Li 2 S 8 ) in ether solvent as a catholyte and metallic lithium as an anode. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors. Nuclear power generates nearly 20% of US electricity, delivering reliable, low-emission baseload power to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. —Daniel Kammen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2018

As more renewable sources of generation (biomass, wind, solar) are progressively deployed in the market, the electricity supply becomes more weather-dependent and thus more volatile so that a substantial amount of gas-fired power plant capacity will be necessary for reliability of supply.

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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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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The UK has been a leader in deploying on and offshore wind turbines. What we have not done so well is to ensure that we have a solid base level of generation to supply electricity when there is no sun and no wind. At the time of writing, mid-morning 21 Sept, we have: Wind 9%. True cost of Smart Meters. Nuclear 15%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

The hydrogen is combined with CO 2 to produce methane, which is pumped into and stored in the existing natural gas grid and used like natural gas for use in power generation, transportation, or other thermal and industrial uses. This would help speed up the return on investment in VGV for the development costs of the energy transition.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The cost of Li-ion batteries currently affects the affordability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEV/EV) for consumers. For the field test, researchers will deploy aged EV batteries at the University of California (UC), San Diego’s campus-wide electric power grid.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy. Here’s how.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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Industrial Industry Climate Change Grid 301

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Many experts believe that the first step in overhauling the chemical industry will involve moving away from thermally-driven chemical reactions and separation processes that require heat from fossil fuel combustion and moving towards reactions that use electricity generated by renewable resources, like wind and solar. “DC-MUSE

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The President’s Climate Action Plan contains a goal of doubling renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources between 2012 and 2020. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?. Reduce the cost of plug-in vehicle battery technology to $300/kWh by 2015 and $125/kWh by 2022.

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2014 2018 Energy Climate Change 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The rise of renewable solar and wind power is demanding sustainable storage technologies using components that are inexpensive, Earth-abundant and environmental friendly. In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Many local devices that can either generate electricity, like rooftop solar panels, or store energy, like electric cars, are expected to help reduce the costs of the traditional system, especially as intermittent renewable energy provides a bigger fraction of our energy use. Making Large Wind Farms More Productive, Less Expensive.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works. Our aim is to firm renewables, making solar and wind into baseload generation." Our aim is to firm renewables, making solar and wind into base load generation."

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works. Our aim is to firm renewables, making solar and wind into baseload generation." Our aim is to firm renewables, making solar and wind into base load generation."

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

These challenges include cost; the availability of power suppl; the proximity to metering equipment; physical limitations in high-rise units; parking issues; homeowner association requirements; allocation of charging costs; and the complexity of decision-making. Integrating EVs with the grid. Representing about 3.7%

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Transportation Climate Energy Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By allowing utility operators to pump water up to a dam or impoundment during periods of low electricity demand and release water during times of peak electricity demand, pumped storage hydropower improves the reliability of electric grids and helps increase the use of variable renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Electric school bus fleets with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities are cost-effective with today’s technology, and could save schools money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving public health, according to a new study by a team at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

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Fleet Electric Electrical Climate Change 210

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

smart grid), storage (grid level, end user, community), monitoring and measurement. Clean Energy : solar/PV, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biofuels. Healthcare Advancement : cost of care/reimbursement, quality of care, compliance, disease surveillance, electronic medical records. prosthetic eye, haptics).

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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. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. University of Illinois. University. Description.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

This latest round of ARPA-E projects seek to address the remaining challenges in energy storage technologies, which could revolutionize the way Americans store and use energy in electric vehicles, the grid and beyond, while also potentially improving the access to energy for the US. measurement capabilities and lowering the cost of electric.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are identifying battery second use (B2U) strategies capable of offsetting vehicle expenses while improving utility grid stability. —“Identifying and Overcoming Critical Barriers to Widespread Second Use of PEV Batteries”.

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Grid Batteries Battery Energy Storage 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. Table of Contents. Conclusions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

Most notably, it co-owns the first laboratory in Italy (one of the very few in the world) with the University of Calabria, which is capable of performing tests at high pressures (up to 1000 bar) for the storage of gases including hydrogen. batteries for intraday balancing)—and alternative energy transportation solutions to the grid.

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