Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2021

ion Ventures, a modern utility and energy storage infrastructure specialist, and LiNa Energy , a solid-state battery technology developer, concluded their first successful trial of LiNa’s proprietary solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform at an undisclosed location in South East England last week.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2023

Synhelion and its partner the University of Florida announced that their joint project has been awarded US$2.7 million from the US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). Close-up of Synhelion’s proprietary solar receiver, which delivers high-temperature process heat beyond 1,500 °C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Toshiba Corporation will supply the battery for the United Kingdom’s first 2MW scale lithium-titanate battery based Energy Storage System (ESS) to support grid management. The ESS will be connected to the 11kV grid at Western Power Distribution’s Willenhall primary substation, near Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.

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JUNE 3, 2021

A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). million to help develop advanced batteries from electric cars and grid energy storage. The NSERC will give the team, headed by Dr. Jeff Dahn, $2.9

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. BMW i has worked with universities, national laboratories, utilities and industry partners to maximize residential energy efficiency. BMW i 360° Electric.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Defense (DoD), and Department of State launched the Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB) to accelerate the development of a robust, secure, domestic industrial base for advanced batteries.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded $250,000 to each of eight companies and research centers to develop working prototypes for a wide range of energy-storage technologies. The recipients are all members of the NY Battery and Energy Storage Technology ( NY-BEST ) Consortium.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Berkeley Lab hosted a battery research workshop last week to explore what role researchers in the University of California (UC) system can play in bridging the gap between science research and technology deployment of new batteries. The workshop addressed the need for energy storage for both transportation and the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will award $8 million to help develop or commercialize 19 advanced energy storage projects. Funding will support projects in two categories: Industry-led near-term commercialization partnerships (two major awards), and technology development.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

is the energy storage partner for a utility demonstration project led by CEATI International Inc., Other partners include major utilities and universities. The project has been conditionally approved for partial funding support from the Government of Canada’s Clean Energy Fund and final contract negotiations are underway.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2019

has entered a multi-year partnership with the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and its battery validation lab to analyze viable business and technical approaches revto reuse and repurpose electric vehicle batteries effectively. Cummins is the nexus between the transportation and stationary energy storage sectors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2013

A vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project between the University of Delaware and NRG Energy has begun selling power to PJM Interconnection for the power grid. Frequency regulations is used to balance supply and demand on the grid second-by-second. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). — Michael J.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2022

As the number of electric vehicles on the world’s roads explodes, electric utilities are grappling with increasing demand while simultaneously having to stabilize their grids where more intermittent renewable-energy sources like wind and solar are coming online. That’s the promise of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The selected startups are focused on decarbonizing industrial processes through innovative energy storage and heating technologies, as well as optimizing electric vehicle charging through hardware and software solutions. —Yesim Jonsson, Shell’s GCxN program manager.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Heliostats are mirrors that track the sun in order to reflect highly concentrated sunlight to a receiver, where it can be stored as heat for long-duration energy storage and converted into electricity. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential. Digital Twin and Industry 4.0

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

Operators can use the systems to store energy from solar panels and deliver power to the grid during cloudy days or at night. Or, they can supply the green hydrogen to other industries, such as cargo shipping and steel production. The initiative comes as the global electricity sector is clamoring for grid-storage solutions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. Structure and function of a smart membrane separator. (A)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

SDSMT hosted hundreds of industry representatives, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and fellow academics on 12-13 September in a conference on the topic. Some of the industry leaders attending the conference include Ford (attending remotely), Swiss company LafargeHolcim, Garmin International, Caterpillar Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Australia-based Sparc Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Existing hard carbon materials are typically sourced from carbonaceous precursors such as pitch (a by-product of the oil & gas industry) which undergo lengthy heating at high temperatures.

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Baua Electric

MAY 25, 2024

Supercapacitors, energy storage devices that depend on ion collection in their pores, have fast charging times and longer life spans compared to batteries, he added. Supercapacitors, energy storage devices that depend on ion collection in their pores, have fast charging times and longer life spans compared to batteries, he added.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The research project will run for three years under the aegis of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. This will effectively turn the electric vehicles’ batteries into mobile energy storage devices that can also supply electricity when required.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Connected Energy , a UK provider of site-integrated energy storage solutions, is heading a £1.3-million million) research collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover, WMG at University of Warwick and Videre Global to establish key components of a second-life battery value chain. million (US$1.7-million)

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

The alliance, including India, aims to secure 5 GW of battery energy storage by 2024, aligning with the long-term goal of developing 90 GW of storage capacity worldwide. Electric vehicles (EVs) equipped with battery technology not only reduce emissions but also contribute to a more resilient energy ecosystem.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This advancement opens opportunities spanning the spectrum from consumer, commercial and industrial electric vehicles to defense systems such as a connected battlefield, unmanned vehicles and subzero power to all-weather energy applications for grid storage and power backup to marine sea monitoring, electric boats, submarines and more.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

million partnership with McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, with funding support from the Canadian government, to develop next-generation, energy-efficient, high-performance electrified powertrains and powertrain components. Energy storage solutions such as ultra-capacitors also will be a key focus.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. During the past decade, lithium batteries have become the most popular batteries for energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a combined $2.8 billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.6 Piedmont Lithium , Tennessee Lithium, $141,680,442.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The market has recognized the ability of phosphate-based lithium ion technology to meet the growing demand for reliable, high-performance energy storage in transportation, grid and commercial applications. We believe this agreement represents a win-win for the entire industry by paving the way for faster adoption.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. Hydrogen and its derivatives could be that fuel, argues a commentary by four energy researchers in the journal Joule.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

NGen has now announced $76 million in funding for 15 new industry-led consortia that will execute projects in strategic areas such as critical minerals & metals, traction battery & efficiency gains, power electronics, fuel cells, and lightweight materials. Partners: AIS Technologies Group, Shelley Industrial Automation, Konnexio Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The BIC will leverage Indiana’s public and private sector assets in advanced battery technologies to create a center of excellence that will meet the research and development, rapid prototyping and contract manufacturing needs of industry, academic and military customers. After receiving $15.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

Consortium members will work to ensure significant innovations can be quickly and seamlessly implemented by industry throughout the project. The Battery500 consortium will receive up to $10 million a year over five years from the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Stanford University.

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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. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

Audi is actively involved in the EEBUS initiative to promote networking across manufacturer and industry boundaries. 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.

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