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Tesla launches Powerwall and home energy demos

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Tesla has launched a new demo for its home energy products, showing how the use of its Powerwall works used in tandem with the electrical grid and solar panels. The demo can be accessed directly from within the Tesla app, showing the interface that customers can use to monitor their home energy storage, Powerwall and more.

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IPG to demo Flameless Ceramic Turbine for clean, off-grid power in EV charging

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IPG’s project will demonstrate the role of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in bringing EV charging to high-use and remote locations through clean, cheap, grid-independent power generation. But, in many high-use areas and remote locations, upgrading grid connections to meet future charging demand is not practical or commercially viable.

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Porsche demos grid balancing capability of group of Taycan EVs with cloud-based pooling system

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A realistic pilot test conducted by Porsche, the grid operator TransnetBW and consulting firm Intelligent Energy System Services (IE2S), has demonstrated that electrical balancing power can be stored in the high-voltage batteries of an intelligent swarm of electric cars. —Dr Rainer Pflaum, CFO TransnetBW.

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Naturgy and Enagás studying production of green hydrogen from 350 MW of wind power in Asturias

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Naturgy and Enagás are studying the production of green hydrogen from a 250MW floating offshore wind farm and another 100MW onshore wind farm in Asturias (Spain) for industrial consumption in this Autonomous Region.

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Hitachi and Demansys to demo CrystEna Energy Storage System for grid frequency regulation and capacity services

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The capacity services market is an auction through which grid operators secure a sufficient supply of capacity several years into the future from supply and demand-side resources. Demansys’ Grid Daemon has been used in a diverse range of commercial and industrial applications.

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DOE to award up to $180M for offshore wind demo projects; targeting lowering levelized cost of energy (LCOE) below 10¢/kWh

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is soliciting ( DE-FOA-0000410 ) proposals for up to four offshore wind energy projects to receive up to $180 million over six years, including an initial commitment of $20 million in fiscal year 2012. Funding is subject to Congressional appropriations.

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United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021. At the Tucson site, they are using electricity from the Arizona grid, which gets an increasing amount of power from local solar panels. Commissioning of the facility has already begun, and it is set to begin operation this July.