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Hydro-Québec and Sony Corporation will establish a joint venture to research and develop a large-scale energy storage system for powergrids. Sony and Hydro-Québec plan to establish the new company in June, 2014.
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The resulting flexible grid usage is intended to reduce the frequency of bottlenecks in the powergrid and create financial benefits for participants. In 2020 alone, about 6,200 GWh of green power had to be curtailed in Germany. The car becomes a rolling electricity storage unit for the grid operator.
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the first model based on the modular electric toolkit (MEB) in 2020, the company will successively roll out a large number of solutions that private and commercial e-mobility customers need now and in the future—ranging from hardware to charging, additional digital services and complete advice packages.
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Seven companies—Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. TEPCO PowerGrid, Inc.; Hitachi Systems Power Service, Ltd.; Stabilizing the powergrid requires the use of thermal power but this incurs costs in owning and maintaining such power generating plants. and Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.—have
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V2X technology enables electric vehicle (EV) integration with the continued growth in renewable energy into the electric powergrid. Fermata Energy’s V2X technology provides energy storage to the powergrid to support the transition to renewables and provides revenue generation capabilities for vehicle and fleet owners.
A realistic pilot test conducted by Porsche, the grid operator TransnetBW and consulting firm Intelligent Energy System Services (IE2S), has demonstrated that electrical balancing power can be stored in the high-voltage batteries of an intelligent swarm of electric cars. —Dr Rainer Pflaum, CFO TransnetBW.
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and ABB’s PowerGrids business are partnering to expand the rollout of silicon carbide in the rapidly-growing high-power semiconductor market. Cree’s products will be included as part of ABB’s power semiconductor product portfolio, across powergrids, train and traction, industrial and e-mobility sectors.
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Within the framework of the initiative, the E-Mobility Group is bringing together the main players—e-truck customers, powergrid operators, energy suppliers, charging hardware manufacturers and charging software providers—thus promoting shared infrastructure solutions for truck customers within the network.
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The project seeks to address multiple challenges related to the expansion of EVs, including the repurposing of used EV batteries, the expected impact of EV demand and renewable energy on the nation’s utility operators and the integration of EV batteries as a storage solution for the electric grid.
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