Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Electrify America has installed onsite, behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems (BESS) at more than 140 ultra-fast DC charging stations around the country, including more than 90 installations in California.

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MAY 19, 2022

Electrify America entered into a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with developer Terra-Gen to build a solar photovoltaic renewable energy generation project in San Bernardino County, California called Electrify America Solar Glow 1. The solar project is targeted to be operational by mid-2023.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. Ansell presented his findings at AIAA Aviation 2023 in June.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Researchers led by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have extended the capacity and duration of sodium-aluminum batteries. Sodium and aluminum are a natural combination of inexpensive, abundant elements as a redox pair for battery energy storage. of peak charge capacity. —Weller et al.

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

a provider of long duration energy storage solutions, and Encore Renewable Energy, a developer of renewable energy generation and storage projects, jointly announced plans to develop the United States’ first long-duration, liquid-air energy storage system. Highview Power Storage, Inc.,

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2024

An emerging technology, grid-forming inverters, are letting utilities install more renewable energy facilities, such as solar photovoltaics and wind turbines. The inverters are often connected to utility-scale battery systems at solar-plus-storage facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2022

Elli, a brand of the Volkswagen Group, and MITNETZ STROM have launched a nationwide pilot project for smart grid integration of electric vehicles. An algorithm uses price incentives to compare the cars’ charging plans with regional electricity output from renewable energies and the available capacities in the distribution grid.

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MARCH 28, 2022

SHV Energy and LanzaTech are partnering to employ LanzaTech’s Carbon Capture and Transformation (CCT) technology to bring renewable propane and other sustainable fuels to the market via existing and novel pathways. —Bram Gräber, SHV Energy CEO. Additional plants are under construction globally.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Rio Tinto is planning to invest a further $600 million in renewable energy assets in the Pilbara as part of the company’s efforts to decarbonize its Western Australian iron ore operations. The investment will fund the construction of two 100MW solar power facilities as well as 200 MWh of on-grid battery storage in the Pilbara by 2026.

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APRIL 7, 2023

During Tesla’s Investor Day held in March, Elon Musk touched on Tesla’s Master Plan Part 3, which outlines a proposed path to reach a sustainable global energy economy through end-use electrification and sustainable electricity generation and storage. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

General Motors plans to source 100% renewable energy to power its US sites by 2025—five years earlier than previously announced, and 25 years ahead of its initial target that was set in 2016. Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize its portfolio.

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APRIL 26, 2023

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), and Cap Clean Energy, a clean energy development company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop biofuels facilities in Canada to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) for the heavy duty transport sector.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

This award marks the first Advanced Class Gas Turbines in the industry specifically designed and purchased as part of a comprehensive plan to sequentially transition from coal, to natural gas and finally to renewable hydrogen fuel, and creates a roadmap for the global industry to follow. and Hitachi, Ltd.

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Innovation News Network

MARCH 20, 2024

Department of Energy has unveiled a strategic initiative aimed at bolstering the nation's electrical grid with clean energy. The post DOE invests $44m to enhance US electrical grid with clean energy technologies appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3

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Electrek

APRIL 15, 2024

In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California’s main grid for 30 of the past 38 days.

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MAY 18, 2021

SHV Energy and UGI International, a subsidiary of UGI Corporation, leading distributors of off-grid energy, intend to launch a joint venture to advance the production and use of Renewable Dimethyl Ether (rDME), a low-carbon sustainable liquid gas, to accelerate renewable solutions for the LPG industry.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Arcadia connects renters and homeowners across the US to wind and solar energy through utility data and billing technology. The EPA provides further information on how renewable energy certificates are used to account for renewable electrcity generation and use. 2021 Audi e-tron.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Russelectric, a manufacturer of distributed energy and microgrid control systems for mission-critical commercial facilities that was acquired by Siemens in 2018, has added electrical vehicle charging capabilities at its Hingham, Massachusetts, facility. —Jason Martin, Head of Russelectric.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Maintaining grid reliability amid increasing renewable energy penetration involves fundamental changes to power system operation and the resources leveraged to provide grid services. Funded through a $25-million DOE award, the public-private consortium aims to enable power-sector decarbonization through 2035.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract to supply and install a large-scale mtu EnergyPack QG battery storage system on a turnkey basis to the Dutch energy company Semper Power in Vlissingen. Semper Power develops and operates energy storage systems for wind and solar farm developers, distribution grid operators and industrial customers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With battery storage able to provide a unique role in balancing a renewable electricity grid, Toby Gill, CEO of Intelligent Power Generation, asks could innovations in green hydrogen and biofuel technologies contribute to a more optimized and economical energy mix? Our grid is changing, and so must the way we operate it.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. grids demands public scrutiny and accountability. Many Lines, Stable Power High-voltage transmission lines move large amounts of energy over long distances, linking power generation to consumption.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2019

Bloom Energy, a developer of solid oxide fuel cell power generators, announced the ability of its Energy Servers to operate on renewable hydrogen. Current Bloom Energy Servers generate electricity using natural gas or biogas as fuel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) recently awarded $2.4 million in funding for three projects to advance novel thermal and hydrogen energy storage technologies toward increased duration, reliability and affordability. WE New Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Seeking to slash CO 2 emissions from its North American manufacturing operations, Honda has entered into long-term virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar power that will cover more than 60% of the electricity that Honda uses in North America. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

Independent research and business intelligence company Rystad Energy estimates that there are about 91 planned hydrogen pipeline projects in the world, totaling 30,300 kilometers and due to come online by around 2035. Hydrogen has a high gravimetric energy density and a low volumetric energy density.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since its inception, the US electric grid has mostly operated smoothly as one synchronous machine with a one-directional flow of electricity to meet the nation’s predictable power needs. The US electric grid is experiencing something of a mid-life crisis. But that premise is quickly changing.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A Siemens Energy-led consortium has begun work in Newcastle, UK on a new £3.5 We have just 13 years to deliver a net-zero electricity grid for the UK. This innovative green ammonia cracker could be a game-changer for scaling up the green hydrogen industry – an important step to drive the energy transition. million (US$4.24

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report, Hybrid Energy Systems: Opportunities for Coordinated Research , highlighting innovative opportunities to spur joint research on hybrid energy systems (HES). using electrical or thermal energy to produce hydrogen from water or a methane source).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are evaluating the use of blockchain for transactive energy using hardware in the laboratory’s Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF). Distributing grid operational decision-making is revolutionary. Source: NREL.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Virtual Peaker and Fermata Energy are partnering to integrate Fermata Energy’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with Virtual Peaker’s cloud-based residential energy demand response platform used by utilities across the country. Fermata Energy V2X bi-directional charger.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2020

Statkraft, Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy, has agreed to a deal to help further decarbonize the UK’s power sector and deliver a new approach to managing the stability of the grid. Statkraft was awarded four stability contracts (2 at Keith and 2 at Lister Drive) by National Grid ESO (NGESO) earlier this year.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Elli, the Volkswagen subsidiary that manages all activities related to charging and energy for the Group in Europe, the Elia Group and its start-up re.alto signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Berlin. An essential key to achieving climate neutrality lies in linking of the energy and mobility sectors.

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MAY 6, 2023

Rimac Technology is entering the stationary Energy Storage Systems (ESS) market with the launch of Rimac Energy. Rimac Energy will produce its pilot systems for selected customers this year with commissioning in 2024. Insights into the technology will be revealed later this year.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Global renewable energy investment increased between 2013 and 2018, reaching its peak at US$351 billion in 2017, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI). Renewable energy investment slightly declined in 2018, with modest growth through 2019.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

An initial project will connect the JuiceNet EV charging platform to one of LO3’s transactive energy marketplaces, activating local renewable energy to be traded between the microgrid and electric vehicle owners.

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