Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Energy Laboratory (NREL) has successfully demonstrated vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities using IPC’s bi-directional Battery Converter. IPC’s Battery Converter will provide bi-directional power between the EV. battery and a 480Vac power grid. Integration Facility. NREL successfully integrated and.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

DOE is focusing this latest research and demonstration initiative on innovative technologies that will achieve large cost reductions over existing offshore wind technologies. The primary goals of the Advanced Technology Demonstration Projects are to: Install innovative offshore wind systems in U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

Today, utilities use complex software platforms called an energy management system (EMS) and advanced distribution management system (ADMS) to manage the demand, supply, and reliable delivery of electricity on the power grid. Traditionally, integrating new resources into the grid comes at a substantial cost for a utility.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

Siemens is currently installing the first Sitras SES (stationary energy storage) Energy Storage Unit with supercapacitor technology in the US on the new TriMet Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Line. American Maglev Technology (AMT) is installing supercapacitor-based braking energy recuperation systems on the TriMet light rail vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

Working with a group of nearly 100 BMW i3 drivers, selected from approximately 400 applicants, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to optimizing electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership. Managed charge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

The cumulative results predict a 60% reduction in energy costs and more than 9,000 kg of CO 2 (55% reduction) saved from a single home. If every home in the US were to implement these energy-saving technologies, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas off the power grid (32 million homes).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The initial focus is on charging stations installed at the depots of truck customers. In addition, the participants are also concerned with aspects such as optimized load management of the electricity grid and sustainable electricity supply. Fast processes mean reduced costs for all involved.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

The carport will enable NSA Mid-South to recharge its current fleet of 17 electric vehicles with renewable electricity in approximately four hours, while reducing demand on the commercial power grid. Since then, the carport has successfully generated enough electricity to power more than 60 typical homes for a day.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

Following the start of the project in September 2015, a redox flow battery system (2 MW x 4 hours) was constructed for a power grid at a substation in San Diego. Demonstration will now be carried out to evaluate the management of surplus electricity and regulation of grid frequency and voltage fluctuation. Background.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

UK-based Connected Energy and Groupe Renault have installed two quick-charge stations based on Connected Energy’s E-STOR energy storage technology on highways in Belgium and Germany. Economical and simple to install, E-STOR will contribute to the development of a network of quick-charging stations in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), in cooperation with Duke Energy and non-profit industry initiative Energy Systems Network (ESN), will participate in a joint smart-grid pilot project in Indiana, the United States. The aim of the project will be power-grid load-equalization and the establishment of an optimized vehicle-charging scheme.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

The program originally set out to demonstrate how a typical American family can significantly lower its electricity costs while limiting its impact on the environment. The cumulative results predict a 60% reduction in energy costs and more than 9,000 kilograms of CO 2 (55% reduction) saved.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

Volkswagen’s Flexpole 150kW charging units, each of which features two charge points, have an integrated battery storage system, thereby overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to the rapid roll-out of fast charging infrastructure in Europe today—the need for high-powered grid connections.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

The power offered will be Volkswagen Naturstrom generated in a CO 2-free way. 100% of this power comes from renewable sources such as hydropower plants and its origin has been certified by TÜV. The low-cost 11 kW AC Wallbox is suitable for overnight charging, a procedure that protects the battery. Charging on the road.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

million: ALD Technical Solutions is developing light-weight, easy-to-install, long-lasting, and cost-effective structural composite reinforcement system which will be installed and cured-in-place around existing Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced transmission lines to increase power capacity and power efficiency, and also decrease sag.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2012

The new system, which recovers energy from the hot exhaust gas, also reduces costs by around 20%. However, the process consumes vast amounts of electricity, produces lots of carbon dioxide, and can lead to fluctuations in the stability of the power grid. The Tyasa mill is scheduled to be completed by mid-2013. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Shell, together with ITM Power, plans to install a 10MW electrolyzer to produce hydrogen at the Wesseling refinery site within the Rheinland Refinery Complex. Electrolysis using low-cost renewable electricity could be a key technology for CO 2 -free hydrogen production in the Shell Rheinland Refinery.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

SPIDERS aims to create a resilient, more reliable microgrid designed to protect against extended power outages caused by natural disasters, accidents or attacks—and, ultimately, to enhance electric power surety for national security. installations—Joint Base Pearl. independent from the bulk power grid (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

A coalition of 13 leading industrial companies and electric utilities, including General Motors Company, The Dow Chemical Company and Duke Energy, issued a white paper recommending the installation of up to 300 GWh of distributed energy storage (DES) systems around the country by 2022. value proposition. of DES systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Suited for companies with fleet vehicles, the Nissan Energy Share pilot program will continuously monitor a building’s electrical loads, looking for opportunities to periodically draw on the LEAF’s “lower-cost energy” to provide power to the building during more expensive high-demand periods.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In addition, the companies believe increasing the total lifetime value of batteries through second-life applications could help reduce initial battery cost. Duke Energy will provide engineering design support for battery installations, as well as supply test sites and personnel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

With more than one billion people—and potential cell phone subscribers—living in remote areas with no accessible power grid, operators are often forced to continuously power cellular base stations using diesel fuel. These batteries will ensure the continuous operation of telecom installations in Nigeria.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2012

ESB Networks will use IBM’s Intelligent Electric Vehicle Enablement Platform to provide the services needed to operate and manage the charge-points installed throughout Ireland. With this level of financial insight, industry participants can manage regular and interruptible tariffs and calculate the appropriate billing costs.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Honda has joined a demonstration project for experimental vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology aimed at providing a potentially valuable energy storage resource to the electrical grid while providing for more cost-effective ownership of plug-in electric vehicles. installing UD control technology into the EVs; and others.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

With compact dimensions, the flexible quick charging station can be installed almost anywhere it’s needed or where a charging infrastructure is not yet in place. When connected to the low-voltage grid, the station becomes a permanent charging point without the additional cost and effort required for a comparable fixed quick charging station.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

The average American experienced more than eight hours of power interruption in 2020. Whether it’s caused by an earthquake, hurricane, wildfire or simply related to an overload on the power grid, a power outage can have a detrimental impact on homeowners that can last for hours or even days.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The wait for the more specialized large power transformers (LPTs), which step up voltage from power stations to transmission lines, is up to four years. Costs have also climbed by 60 to 80 percent since 2020. How Transformers Work A transformer is a simple thing and an old one, too, invented in the 1880s.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2011

The project goal is to verify the use of advanced technologies in a smart grid under the use of large volumes of renewable energy already in place, to contribute to smart grid standards, and to implement a low-carbon social infrastructure system that efficiently uses renewable energy on a remote island where electricity costs are relatively high.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The paper examines the Phase 1 results of the DNV-led project FellowSHIP (Fuel Cells for Low Emissions Ships, earlier post ), the first large-scale fuel cell installation operating on board a merchant ship. The ship’s electric propulsion system therefore consume fuel cell power equivalently to power provided by the main generators.

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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. EV battery “second life” system using MINI E vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

This first-of-its-kind system will push power back to the base microgrid when needed to meet installation demand or improve overall power quality. Thus, it is not a “clean sheet” approach to creating microgrids but one that, instead, mimics what the DOD and private industry could do as a lowest cost approach.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

V2H has great potential to reduce the homeowner’s electricity costs and increase network stability. Due to the DC voltage level in the overall grid, the connection between the PV system and the vehicle does not require an inverter and is thus a particularly efficient solution. —Martin Dehm.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

This means that the operating expenses, such as the purchase of power, grid connection fees, licence costs, land lease, cleaning and maintenance costs were covered by the revenues generated at those stations. Fastned began installing stations in The Netherlands in 2015; 57 are currently in operation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Four California state agencies and the independent power grid operator have released a new plan and vision for California’s energy future in advance of the Air Resources Board consideration of a first-in-the-nation rule requiring that a third of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2010

Assuming the trend continues for cost-performance improvements in superconducting wire, such a line could become an option within a decade along with Extra High Voltage (EHV) AC lines that are currently used to move large amounts of power over long distances. EPRI also has published two companion superconducting reports. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The Volkswagen Group presented its technology roadmap for batteries and charging up to 2030 today on its first “Power Day”. The goal of the roadmap is to reduce the complexity and cost of the battery significantly in order to make the electric car attractive and viable for as many people as possible. —Thomas Schmall.

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