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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

Green Car Congress

Notrees Wind Storage. Deploy a wind energy storage demonstration project at the Notrees Windpower Project in western Texas. Premium Power Distributed Energy Storage System Demonstration for National Grid and Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Solid State Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage. 21,806,232.

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The Essential Guide to EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management

Driivz

Advantages of Smart Energy Management for Fleets. It optimizes energy consumption based on grid constraints, energy pricing, renewable energy availability, locally stored energy, preconfigured EV owner preferences, and driver needs. Advantages of Smart Energy Management for Fleets. What EV Drivers Want from Smart Charging?

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said. — t_F 10.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Please feel free to tell us what you believe to be the benefits of some of the various recharging modes mentioned above in the comments section below. Obviously, with replaceable battery packs, they can both be charged at the optimal time and always be hanging around to serve as valuable electrical power storage for the grid.