Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020. Statkraft is an important player in energy trading.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. The new sodium-based molten salt battery uses two distinct reactions. hours under laboratory conditions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2023

From 2017, the second-generation MINI Countryman featured the MINI Cooper SE Countryman ALL4 as the first plug-in hybrid MINI model to offer an additional 65 kW/88 hp electric motor on the rear axle. The new generation of the largest MINI model is fully electric and locally emission-free.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

a United Kingdom-based hybrid clean energy company, is developing a wind-SMR (Small Modular Reactor) and hydrogen production hybrid energy project in North Wales. The UK recently announced plans to expand offshore wind capacity rapidly by 2030 and invest in SMR development to meet net-zero carbon emissions goals by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2020

The partners plan to produce green hydrogen, transport it in the gas network, use it in industrial processes and to interlink different material cycles within the existing infrastructure. With the adoption of the national hydrogen strategy at the beginning of June 2020, green hydrogen has become the key element in Germany’s energy transition.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2020

Statkraft, Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy, has agreed to a deal to help further decarbonize the UK’s power sector and deliver a new approach to managing the stability of the grid. Statkraft was awarded four stability contracts (2 at Keith and 2 at Lister Drive) by National Grid ESO (NGESO) earlier this year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Semper Power develops and operates energy storage systems for wind and solar farm developers, distribution grid operators and industrial customers. When fully charged, the system has the capacity to supply 8,000 households with electrical energy for an entire day.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2021

Seven companies from the GET H2 initiative in Europe want to build a cross-border pipeline for green hydrogen. By using green hydrogen in refineries, in steel production and for other industrial uses, the overall project should be able to avoid CO 2 emissions of up to 16 million tonnes by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2022

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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Intelligent Power Generation (IPG) will demonstrate the impact of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in UK electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, following a £1-million contract from Highways England. This growth will require high megawatt capacities across England’s road networks.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane. It can be made available to a variety of markets, such as the manufacturing sector, the electricity, and heating market as well as the mobility sector.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 26, 2024

Image courtesy of Equinor Construction giant Skanska has been awarded a contract to turn the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into one of the US’s largest offshore wind ports. Skanska’s $861 million critical infrastructure offshore wind hub project in Brooklyn will support the 2.1 Get started here. –

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2020

PowerCell Sweden AB has signed a memorandum of understanding with ABB Power Grids regarding a collaboration around fuel cell based zero emissions stationary power solutions. The MoU with ABB Power Grids is an important step and a great contribution to our increased efforts within the stationary segment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2023

Today’s fleet of storage resources can capture enough electricity to power up to 5 million California homes. When combined with other sources of zero-carbon energy such as large hydroelectric generation and nuclear, nearly 59% of the state’s retail electricity sales came from nonfossil fuel sources. compared to 2020. compared to 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2020

HOMER Energy by UL, a global developer of energy modeling software, announced that HOMER Grid , software for designing grid-tied distributed energy projects, can now model how hybrid systems power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The solution is to co-locate renewables and storage with charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Not only will electric vehicles with bidirectional charging capability be able to draw electrical power for their high-voltage battery when plugged into a compatible charging station or wallbox, they will also have the ability to reverse the process and feed energy back into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The joint venture will accelerate the affordability and availability of green hydrogen through increased technological innovation, research and development, and manufacturing capacity. Green hydrogen is the ultimate technology of the hydrogen energy industry in the future. Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Maintaining grid reliability amid increasing renewable energy penetration involves fundamental changes to power system operation and the resources leveraged to provide grid services. This consortium brings together leading experts to research how to enable inverter-based resources to help shape a reliable grid for today and tomorrow.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

While there, I spent some time checking out where they are on the path to electrifying transportation and greening their electrical grid. Last week, I spent some time visiting my wife’s family in Recife (northern Brazil).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

Southern California Edison recently signed seven contracts totaling 770 megawatts of battery-based energy storage resources to help enhance the region’s electric system reliability needs. The projects will enhance electric grid reliability and help address potential energy shortfalls identified in California.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The major driver for the project is the need to decarbonize the electrical grid, protect it from cybersecurity attacks and make it more resilient. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus. Solar panel output depends on the weather, for example, as do wind turbines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2012

A123 Systems will supply an 11MW Grid Battery System (GBS) to Sempra Generation for the Auwahi Wind project in Maui, Hawaii. The advanced energy storage solution is designed to smooth variable wind power generation, which is expected to help maintain the stability to Maui’s electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

Deep declines in wind, solar and battery technology costs will result in a grid nearly half-powered by the two fast-growing renewable energy sources by 2050, according to the latest projections from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Wind and solar grow from 7% of generation today to 48% by 2050. This will attract $13.3

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The California State Legislature passed a bill that will accelerate offshore wind farm deployment. As electric medium- and heavy-duty vehicles increase, the grid must be updated at the same time – study. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the first joint agency report and a summary document examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045. California’s electricity mix is already more than 60% carbon-free.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

The demonstration trial will support the promotion of green e-methanol and green mobility in Europe as well as preparations for the safe introduction of e-methanol fuel in the EU. The uses of green methanol for commercial shipping have already been pioneered by Danish shipping giant Maersk.

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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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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

through its US subsidiary EnerNOC, has acquired California-based eMotorWerks, a North American supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, called JuiceBox, and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for the smart management of EV charging and other distributed energy storage facilities. Enel S.p.A.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2023

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) and Office of Electricity (OE) plan to fund (DE-FOA-0003241) research to drive innovation and reduce costs of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) voltage source converter (VSC) transmission systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. SGH2 says that its green hydrogen is cost competitive with “gray” hydrogen produced from fossil fuels such as natural gas—the source of the majority of hydrogen used in the United States. —Lancaster Mayor R.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $398,662 to the University of California, Davis to develop a forecasting tool that can be used by the state’s grid operator to respond to sudden changes in wind power production.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

that will be capable of housing a fully-electric fleet of 120 buses and charging infrastructure, as part of the MBTA’s broader plans to design facilities to serve a zero-emissions e-bus fleets. Enel X recently announced a joint venture with AMP Capital for the development of electric public transportation infrastructure in the Americas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Electric truck company Tevva and Vattenfall signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the opportunity to provide a complete zero-emission transport solution for businesses looking to reduce the overall carbon impact of their operations. Tevva is an electric truck company with optional range extension technology that allows its 7.5-19t

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2019

The technology heats the process using green electricity from wind turbines or solar panels instead of natural gas. Today, biogas in grid quality is much costlier to produce than the natural gas it replaces. The eSMR Methanol process is CO 2 -neutral when based on biogas as feedstock and green electricity for heating.

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Green Energy Consumers

MAY 5, 2022

Green Energy Consumers Alliance has a long history, going back to 1997, of supporting Renewable Energy Standards (RES), a policy that requires electric suppliers to deliver renewable energy. These mandates have worked in a large number of states to bring wind and solar power onto the grid, dramatically reducing its carbon intensity.

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