Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

The first energy storage from the BMW-i3 batteries is being built at the 122 MW onshore wind farm “Princess Alexia” near Amsterdam. megawatts (MW), it is Vattenfall’s first large storage project in the Netherlands. Other possible applications would be electricity storage in private households. With a capacity of 3.2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The plan for the UNIFI Consortium is to unify the integration and operation of synchronous machines and inverter-based resources in electric power grids. —Ben Kroposki, director of NREL’s Power Systems Engineering Center and UNIFI Consortium Organizational Director.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

In the future thyssenkrupp’s electrolysis plants will be able to act as large-scale buffers to stabilize the power grid and compensate fluctuations quickly and flexibly. Operators can now link their plants to the German electricity market via E.ON’s virtual power plant. thyssenkrupp and E.ON

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It is, however, a challenge that is being made all the greater as we continue to decentralize power generation with more distributed, variable and inflexible sources, such as wind and solar. This is to ensure that electricity is always there to safely power everything from industrial plants to the wall sockets in our homes and offices.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

To provide 50%—or more—of power from clean energy sources, power grids will have to be able to leverage distributed energy sources, and reliably manage dynamic changes, while minimizing impact on customer quality of service. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

and ABB’s Power Grids business are partnering to expand the rollout of silicon carbide in the rapidly-growing high-power semiconductor market. Cree’s products will be included as part of ABB’s power semiconductor product portfolio, across power grids, train and traction, industrial and e-mobility sectors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This is a unique opportunity for an American company to get in on the ground floor of Russia’s historic shift toward energy efficiency as a full-fledged partner. FGC is in a leap-frog mode to incorporate lithium-ion storage technology for multiple uses in an overhaul of what is one of the world’s largest bulk power grids.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Further, according to Rystad Energy, Big Oil is expected to pump in $166B into new oil and gas ventures over the next five years, thus dwarfing the currently specified outlay of just $18B (less than 10% of capex) for solar and wind energy projects. Good case in point: Italian multinational oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

The e-gas project consists of two main components: Audi is contributing to the construction of offshore North Sea wind turbines which will generate clean power,that is then fed into the public power grid. Audi wants to use green power to produce and also operate its electric-drive e-tron models in the future.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficThis scenario is highly desirable to automotive manufacturers, who harbor great concerns about battery warranty if vehicle-to-grid discharging is allowed. trafficThis scenario is highly desirable to automotive manufacturers, who harbor great concerns about battery warranty if vehicle-to-grid discharging is allowed.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Future fast charging, automotive internet, and intelligent charging are all likely to help pure electric vehicles continue to expand into new application scenarios. As freezing winds blow across his construction site in northern China every morning, Liu Jianhong gathers his workers for hot tea.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

At the “Plugfest E-Mobility” at the Audi plant in Brussels, developers are testing cross-industry compatibility before the EEBUS standard for energy communication is introduced in February. The electric car will play an important role as a power consumer in the digital energy world.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. Well, let's think. Most of the world’s hydrogen comes from deeply polluting methods.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The partners have launched the Second Life Batteries alliance and are interconnecting used batteries from electric vehicles to form a large-scale energy storage system in Hamburg. The energy will be fed into the energy balancing market to balance out short-term fluctuations in the power grid. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Daimler AG, with its wholly owned subsidiary ACCUMOTIVE, and enercity (Stadtwerke Hannover AG) will begin construction of a new stationary energy storage system (ESS) this year; the facility also functions as a spare parts storage facility for electromotive battery systems. Further, noted Madeleine Herdlitschka, from Daimler’s.

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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. That would mean installing vast amounts of energy storage, such as. There are a few possibilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, Mercedes-Benz Cars has eight vehicle and powertrain plants (Bremen, Rastatt, Sindelfingen, Berlin, Hamburg, Kamenz, Kölleda, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim), which either purchase electricity or operate their own power plants. Already existing highly efficient gas CHP systems additionally generate local heat and power at the factories.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Although technical and operational efficiency improvements in conventional propulsion systems may lower CO 2 emissions from ships by as much as 20% across the global fleet, such marked gains in efficiency will not stop the steady increase of total emissions from shipping or meet the ambitious reduction targets of the future. Source: DNV.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), California’s non-profit grid operator, released its new five-year (2012-2016) strategic plan. Between now and 2020, wind and solar generation will quadruple within the ISO transmission grid at the same time electric vehicle charging increases significantly.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

Fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) are technically ready; what is still to be determined is the required confidence in hydrogen’s future for investors, fuel suppliers, automakers and consumers, they suggest. However, they note , “ the trends are encouraging and the hydrogen enterprise has never been more serious and focused.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) are two-way communication technologies that involve the flow of electricity between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. Let’s explore each in detail: Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology: 1. Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) Technology: 1.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

cents from newer plants that have additional pollution-control equipment, the cost of solar energy has dropped to 2.7 cents per kilowatt-hour, and wind power to 3.4 As renewable energy has steadily gotten cheaper, the installed capacity has grown, to 110 gigawatts. Yet in terms of energy. cents per kilowatt-hour.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The awardees went through a rigorous process including a review with CalSEED’s curated technical advisory committee, who volunteered their time and expertise to select the most promising future clean energy technologies. that boosts the energy capacity via nanotechnology-enabled self-assembly of functional nanocomponents, reducing?the

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Low-income and rural communities suffered the most, with some remaining without power for almost a year. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid. Each microgrid includes generation, loads, transformers, distribution lines, protective devices, and, typically, energy storage.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 10, 2024

Establishing an energy resilience strategy has become crucial, not only to ensure your charging station business remains unaffected by power grid disruptions but also to help you navigate the risks posed by market and regulatory changes. This is just one of the numerous economic challenges of recent years.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By embracing the innovative solutions offered by electric mobility, smart cities are paving the way for a future where congestion is minimized, and urban mobility is optimized for the benefit of all residents. Integration with Energy Storage Systems: Smart cities often integrate EV charging infrastructure with energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The 8 BREAKERS projects will work to develop new direct current (DC) devices to better manage power by eliminating electrical faults, improving efficiency and reaction times, and potentially enabling greater proliferation of energy storage and renewable resources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. used to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful, and more efficient. superconducting wind generators more practical for.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The business will be known as ChargeScape and, according to the automakers' press release, seeks to “create a single platform that will seamlessly connect electric utilities, automakers and their interested EV customers to manage energy usage for a broad pool of EVs.” Though whether that theory plays out as advertised remains to be seen.

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EV Connect

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE), the growing demand from plug-in electric vehicles and many other technologies that require electricity could increase the load on our power grids by up to 38% by 2050. Power companies and government agencies are working hard to meet this demand, but it’s a challenging task. How Does V2G Work?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The research project has the goal of integrating electrical vehicles as mobile energy storage units in the future intelligent power grid (smart grid). This demonstration of two-way charging technology will test the practicality of distributed energy storage in car batteries for home usage, Opel said.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

If it’s manufactured on a ‘dirty’ power grid it becomes a major source of emissions over the EV lifecycle. Fortunately, to improve this issue, battery makers are working towards more responsible supply chains , and have the potential for cheaper, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly energy storage in the near future.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Wont all these cars require us to build even more power plants? The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the current power grid could handle many tens of millions of cars plugging in at off-peak hours before wed have any capacity issues [See EPRI article PDF ]. How about a car-mounted wind-generator?

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

If it’s manufactured on a ‘dirty’ power grid it becomes a major source of emissions over the EV lifecycle. Fortunately, to improve this issue, battery makers are working towards more responsible supply chains , and have the potential for cheaper, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly energy storage in the near future.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? Thank you !

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