Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

A composite blend of carbon fibers and polymer resin is being developed that can store and charge more energy faster than conventional batteries can. This material can then be used around the vehicle, replacing existing components, to store and charge energy. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

Schematic of the “New Grid Testbed” components, including renewable energy generation, energy storage, smart distribution and electric transportation Click to enlarge. It is the largest renewable energy project of its kind in California. Two megawatt-hours of battery energy storage. Solar carport.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have identified two compressed air energy storage methods for the temporary storage of the Northwest’s excess wind power and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

GS Battery (USA) Inc., , the US subsidiary of Japan-based battery maker GS Yuasa, announced the deployment of its Hybrid Energy System (HES) for renewable energy storage and EV charging. The HES unit is capable of powering critical loads and has an optional integrated electric vehicle charger plug, level 2 EVSE.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

Nissan’s new regional office in France will house the largest grid-integrated electric vehicle (EV) system and second-life battery storage unit yet installed in a building, anywhere. Grid integration trials have already begun in Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2023

The program at PSU brings together EVs, a bidirectional EV charging system, and advance notice on hourly electricity pricing—called a Transactive Energy Rate (TER)—enabling the university to make decisions easily about using the Nissan LEAF batteries as mobile energy storage assets.

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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 25, 2009

Automotive lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel is entering the utility-scale energy storage market, supplying batteries for one of the 16 new smart grid regional demonstration projects recently awarded funding by the US DOE. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

When work is being done off the grid in remote locations, it can be hard to keep construction equipment fueled up – regardless of whether that fuel is liquid or electric. The resulting heat is converted into electric energy and stored in a connected Battery Storage Module, or BSM. Enter: the BioCharger.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

California’s grid is facing an era of rapid change. There are a lot of complex issues for Californians — especially policymakers—to consider as we work toward a clean energy future. There are a lot of complex issues for Californians — especially policymakers—to consider as we work toward a clean energy future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

International Battery (IB), a US manufacturer and developer of large-format lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, has been chosen as the battery system provider for the first-of-its-kind Community Energy Storage (CES) systems, developed by S&C Electric Company for American Electric Power (AEP).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

The system will be integrated with a 750-kilowatt energy storage facility that can store 2 million watt-hours of energy using batteries. The project will also include a 50-kilowatt-hour facility to demonstrate the potential reuse of vehicle electric batteries for stationary energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

A group of US and Canadian power grid operators, who manage most of the North American bulk electric grid collectively, studied the effect that plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) would have on the electric power grid. The operator could utilize this power for the grid and then replace it when system conditions improve.

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Blink Charging

JULY 27, 2023

Blink Charging recently announced our first battery energy storage system (also referred to as a BES system or BESS) in Pennsylvania that includes four direct current fast chargers (DCFCs). Here’s what battery storage means for you. Here’s what battery storage means for you. What is a battery energy storage system?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

Coritech intends to install the battery converters in its bi-directional electric vehicle charging system for use in Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) applications for the Department of Defense (DoD). All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The Commission also approved funding of $220,554 to expand the campus’ burgeoning charging network for plug-in electric vehicles, through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, created by Assembly Bill 118. —Energy Commission Chair Robert B. The Commission approved a $1.6-million

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Solar Flow-R system distributes solar energy to light electric vehicle batteries and utility consumers. The Paris Motor Show saw the debut of a solar energy storage system to support light electric vehicle battery swaps and charging. They will primarily charge using solar energy, but can give and receive energy to/from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

The California Energy Commission has awarded Electricore, Inc. 750,000 to research value-based design options for the standardization of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) batteries. million to demonstrate renewable energy management using a compressed air energy storage system.

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Setec Powerr

JULY 15, 2022

The V2H system is composed of intelligent interactive terminals, energy storage bidirectional converters, on-grid and off-grid automatic switching devices and accessories. V2G mainly realizes the power interaction between electric vehicles and the power grid. Compared with V2H, V2G is more attractive to everyone.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Honda has invested in advanced bi-directional charging technology at its European R&D site in Offenbach, Germany, which is helping to balance demand and store energy more efficiently across the facility. This latest trial installation at Honda’s Offenbach site applies the same principles on a larger scale.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

Working with a select group of BMW i3 drivers, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to improved electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership. EV battery “second life” system using MINI E vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Cars has opened a factory for plug-in hybrid (PHEV) batteries in the Bangkok region in Thailand. In doing so, the partners are responding to the high demand for electric mobility and, in particular, for plug-in hybrid vehicles in Thailand. The plant works closely with the Mercedes-Benz Energy GmbH.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The two companies are collaborating to determine how the Volt’s 16-kWh lithium-ion batteries can be used to provide stationary electric grid storage systems once the batteries have fulfilled their usefulness in customers’ vehicles. —Bazmi Husain, head of ABB’s smart grids initiative. Earlier this month, Nissan Motor Co.,

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Driivz

MAY 3, 2022

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first installment in our two-part blog series on the role of utilities in turning EVs into a grid asset. We set the stage by examining EV adoption trends, the impact of EV charging on the grid, and the risks of unmanaged EV charging. . The impact of EV charging on the grid. Which statement is correct?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued an initial list of standards, a preliminary cyber security strategy, and other elements of a framework to support transforming the nation’s aging electric power system into an interoperable Smart Grid. Plug-in vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

A team of Burns & McDonnell engineers, along with subcontractor Coritech Services, has developed a system of bidirectional, fast-charging stations for a fleet of plug-in electric vehicles at Fort Carson, Colo. Smith, Hawaii—SPIDERS is to enable those facilities to operate independent from the bulk power grid (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The Solar-to-EV Project harnesses energy from the sun directly to charge plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), store solar power for future use and provide renewable energy to the electrical grid. The solar canopies also provide shade to approximately 50 cars in the Zoo’s southeast parking area.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Duke Energy and Tokyo-based ITOCHU Corp. signed an agreement to collaborate on advanced energy technologies, starting with the evaluation and testing of second-life applications for electric vehicle batteries. Duke Energy will provide engineering design support for battery installations, as well as supply test sites and personnel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

The system will be integrated with a 750 kW energy storage facility that can store 2 MWh of energy using batteries—enough to power 100 average Michigan homes for a year. Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, is supplying its Dynamic Power Resource on-site energy storage and power management system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

Working with a group of nearly 100 BMW i3 drivers, selected from approximately 400 applicants, BMW i ChargeForward will demonstrate how intelligent management of electric vehicle charging can contribute to optimizing electric power grid efficiency while reducing total cost of electric vehicle ownership. Managed charge.

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EV Match

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Demand response programs are an increasingly popular and inventive ways for utilities to ensure grid stability during peak usage. Whenever the grid usage is at its peak, the utility notifies the customer of a demand response event. V2H, where the “H” stands for “home”, re-directs power from the EV to the home it is plugged in to.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Scaling availability of charge points must be accompanied by grid readiness and renewable energy sources. Reaching zero emissions targets won’t be possible if EVs are being served by “dirty” energy-consuming charge points. At the utility level, this involves grid planning and buildout of renewable sources.

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Blink Charging

JANUARY 3, 2024

Plug Into the Blink Host Portal The Blink host dashboard provides quick access to easily monitor your charging stations’ essential data. When you are ready to put a charger into that spot, you can simply “plug it in” and it will be ready to go. For example, you may want to start with just four parking spots for EVs right now.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

A new draft working paper published by the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center concluded that a PHEV pack comprising lithium iron phosphate cells would incur little capacity loss from combining vehicle-to-grid (V2G) activities with regular driving. Tags: Batteries Plug-ins V2G. Peterson et al. CEIC-09-02). Economic model.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 19 new projects to receive a total of $43 million to develop breakthrough energy storage technologies and support promising small businesses. Advanced Management And Protection Of Energy-Storage Devices (AMPED).

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Driivz

JANUARY 28, 2024

Specifically, states are looking for proposals from charge point operators (CPOs), eMobility service providers (ESMPs), property owners, truck and travel stops, businesses like convenience stores, hotels, shopping centers, and other entities. Charging-Network-to-Grid Communication. Teaming is encouraged! Chargers conform to OCPP 2.0.1,

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