Driivz

MAY 10, 2022

Part 1 of this two-part blog discusses the challenges facing electric utilities – both electricity generators and grid operators – with electric vehicle (EV) adoption coinciding with the electrification of buildings, heating, and industry. That is one way to balance the load on the grid. Leveraging EVs as grid assets.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

These high-flying, low-tech aircraft are already in use for surveillance, hovering at 18,000 to 27,000 meters to track drug runners. As a bonus, the tech onboard the balloons runs on solar power. United States’ Wind on the Wire The largest renewable-energy infrastructure project in U.S.

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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. Bly announced the partnership Tuesday at the EV Battery Tech conference in Troy, Michigan.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The driving force behind this trend is the substantial reduction in capital costs for renewable energy projects. China leads the pack with a 40-70% cost reduction in utility-scale solar, onshore wind, and offshore wind compared to other Asia Pacific markets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research. 8 Rivers Capital.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

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. million in tax revenue over 35 years.

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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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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

Rahman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech. that provides buildings with energy-efficiency solutions. Battery energy storage. You cannot make wind and solar energy useful throughout the day unless you can store it. Renewables such as solar, wind, and hydroelectricity.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 26, 2021

Department of Energy. Department of Energy (DOE) funded 16 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) awards through its Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). The $5 million funded by DOE — roughly a third of the available TCF budget allocated to the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable […].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation. the cost of energy storage?by

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. GE Global Research, Inline Gas Discharge Tube Breaker for Meshed MVDC Grids – $4,350,686.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Development of the lithium-ion energy storage system began in 2016 and was inspired by technologies that have proven themselves in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team’s Formula 1 hybrid racing cars. The reduced yaw damping and increased agility support dynamic maneuvers such as driving on winding country roads.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The research was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) and reported in the journal Nature. The gears were custom-manufactured by a commercial supplier and modified in Henry’s lab in the Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions (CNES) Laboratory at Georgia Tech. —Asegun Henry.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Other batteries are coming from battery energy storage systems. Grid stabilization, solar arrays, wind farms, and even home energy storage systems—some of those are coming offline and already going to their second set of batteries. Smaller electronic devices are very rich in cobalt and nickel.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

This has radically improved what can be done with high-voltage transmission lines, MRIs, and energy storage. We showed that we could basically hand-build 16 winding coils and assemble them into one high-performing magnet,” says Sorbom. The team kept the magnet energized in a steady state for about 5 hours. “We

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Improbable and unrealistic scenarios are excellent tools to explore the odder aspects of our universe. Schrödinger’s cat being both alive. continued] The post ICCT Hydrogen Trucking Scenario Would Require Europe To Ban All Electric Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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EV Connect

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Yet it places unprecedented demand on our electrical grid. 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. What Is Vehicle-to-Grid Technology? home for a day.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Recently the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) published a total cost of ownership report on trucking decarbonization which found. continued] The post ICCT Insists That Big Thumb On The Scale Favoring Hydrogen For Trucking Is Appropriate appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Like the tiny corkscrew, blade, and toothpick on the Swiss Army knife, hydrogen just isn't the go-to molecule if there are alternatives, and there are almost always alternatives. And in hydrogen's case, a lot of the current use cases are going to diminish due to economic and climate imperatives, not grow.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. De Nora Tech, LLC (Concord, Ohio). Framatome Inc.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In the past week I’ve been involved in an odd conflict with researchers at the International Council on Clean Transportation. continued] The post Hydrogen Advocates Including ICCT Don’t Understand PPAs, RECs, Wholesale & Retail Electricity appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 11, 2022

The narrative that Americans and many Europeans share about China and themselves is not aligned with observable reality, and the USA is in significant danger of economic decline even as the world improves.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don't need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This project is unique in that the buses will be charged during the day to take advantage of the renewable energy made available by the abundant solar and wind energy available on the island. VIA’s use of 100% renewable grid power ensures the battery electric buses will truly be zero emissions. City of Lubbock/Citibus.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

ARPA-E’s first funding opportunity, “OPEN 2009,” was issued three years ago and was similarly an open call for transformational energy technology solutions. Electron Energy Corporation will develop a technology to. would supply the growing market of wind turbine generators and. Supercapacitors store energy in a manner.

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Plug In India

APRIL 6, 2021

The key to the improvement at IITM for battery tech has been telematics. As more and more of us put solar panels on our roofs, we can move away from our grid driven AC to battery driven DC lights and appliances. LFP, in contrast, currently stores about 140 Wh/kg – with a theoretical storage upper ceiling of 160 Wh/kg.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects). Biomass Energy (5 projects). Conventional Energy (1 project). ENERGY STORAGE. Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc.,

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Several companies and initiatives are making it by using wind or solar electricity to split water via electrolysis. . Direct solar water-splitting using PEC is a more elegant, one-step way to harness solar energy for hydrogen production. Green hydrogen research and technologies have been gaining momentum around the world.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

7 Uncle B said on April 14th, 2009 at 10:17 am This battery is going to absorb peaks from wind-turbines, hitherto dumped to prevent damage to lines! A really significant efficiency increase will be realized, and in combination with the new “variable&# alternators from Vancouver, Canada, major wind power efficiencies can be anticipated!

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron Energy , a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has closed a strategic investment by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) to support the development of stationary energy storage systems for demand charge management at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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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 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea.

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