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Arizona’s largest battery will help feed your Google habit

Baua Electric

Photo: Salt River Project Arizona’s largest battery storage system is now online and, along with solar and wind, will help power a new Google data center – here’s why that matters. The $600 million solar + battery storage project sits on 3,000 acres south of Buckeye. Statista reports that Google’s energy consumption reached 22.29

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Google, Ford, GM, & Solar Companies Partner To Promote Scaling Of Virtual Power Plants

CleanTechnica EVs

A group of heavy hitters, including Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker, has formed a coalition that aims to scale up the market for virtual power plants in a bid to increase the resiliency of the grid and help decarbonize the electric sector.

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DeepGreen Pens Open Letter To BMW, Volvo, Google, Samsung SDI & Other Brands

CleanTechnica EVs

DeepGreen has written an open letter to various brands, such as BMW, Google, Samsung SDI, and Volvo. Before I dive in and share the open letter, I want to re-share what DeepGreen is: a deep-sea mining company that has a vision of a zero-carbon, circular economy with goals to source metals with the least environmental […].

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Fusion energy company TAE Technologies launches power management subsidiary TAE Power Solutions

Green Car Congress

TAE Power Solutions intends to deliver a novel technology to improve fundamentally the reliability, efficiency, longevity, and affordability of electric-powered products, from vehicles to renewable energy storage. billion.

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US battery storage smashes deployment records in Q4 2023

Baua Electric

The US battery storage sector saw 4,235 megawatts (MW) installed in Q4 2023, according to Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association’s (ACP) latest “ US Energy Storage Monitor” report. With a robust pipeline, the future for energy storage deployment is strong.

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NGK Spark Plug & HAKUTO-R to test solid-state lithium battery technology on the moon in 2021

Green Car Congress

Testing solid-state battery technology on the Moon is aimed at supplying the burgeoning lunar industry with a stable energy storage solution. ispace also managed Team HAKUTO, one of the 5 finalists in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. Prototype of NTK solid-state battery.

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Google Gets It - It's the Plug, Stupid

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Google.org has launched RechargeIt.org A comprehensive vision of clean electricty, plug-in hybrid and electric cars, and vehicles as distributed energy storage devices for clean power. With Google's street cred (Wall Street and your street,) intellectual prowess and financial clout, electricity may at long last get a seat at the table.

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