Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

Shirley Meng, a nanoengineering professor at UC San Diego. Any bits of unreacted lithium metal chemically react with water to produce hydrogen gas. By measuring how much gas is produced, researchers can calculate the amount of trapped lithium metal. So there is another important aspect that is being overlooked.

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San Diego Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 320

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

The California Energy Commission approved nearly $9 million in grants for the installation of DC fast chargers along major state freeways and highways to allow electric vehicle drivers to travel from San Diego to the Oregon border without worrying about running out of energy. Grants approved include: Incubating technologies.

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DC San Diego Energy Grant 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

Another is an annual clean transportation investment plan that is designed to spark innovation in projects that will help transform California’s fleet to meet greenhouse gas and clean air goals. EPIC is funded by electricity ratepayers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

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Alternative Fuels San Diego California Fuel 244

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

The California Energy Commission gave final approval for nearly $50 million in grant awards for hydrogen refueling and electric charging construction projects recommended for funding in notices of proposed awards published in April and May. California’s zero-emission vehicle goal is to get 1.5 Ontario CNG Station Inc.

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Hydrogen San Diego California Energy 354

EV Match

JULY 15, 2021

EVmatch to use California Energy Commission Grant to Deploy EV Charging Stations at Apartment Buildings and Multi-Unit Dwellings Across California. The CEC Grant. This past April, EVmatch beat out some stiff competition and received a grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) and project partners totaling over $800,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Most utilities struggle with the fact that renewable and distributed energy sources are not as stable as traditional sources, such as natural-gas power plants. UC San Diego is building on experience from NODES, a three-year, $2.88 Solar panel output depends on the weather, for example, as do wind turbines.

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Grid San Diego Energy Power Grid 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

Expanding a network of community air-quality monitors operated by Casa Familiar in San Ysidro, one of 28 community-based organizations and tribes statewide receiving grants to engage residents in efforts to reduce local air pollution. Additionally, 16% of investments benefit and are located in low-income communities.

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Affordable 2018 California San Diego 304

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) released two reports assessing the readiness of two different areas of California—the San Diego and the Central Valley regions—for the widespread use of electric vehicles. The reports show a wide difference in preparedness between the two.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

The California Energy Commission approved more than $10 million in grants for four projects demonstrating advanced medium- and heavy-duty vehicle technologies utilizing battery-electric or fuel-cell electric powertrains that will enhance market acceptance and lead to vehicle production and commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Commission also approved grants for the operation of a hydrogen fueling station, biofuel production, geothermal exploration and rooftop solar for schools. Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. Alternative Fuel and Vehicles.

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California San Diego Energy Solar 271

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

Grant winners for the new two-year Clean Mobility in Schools Pilot Project are: El Monte Union High School District — $9.8 San Diego Unified School District — $9.75 The top three projects preliminarily awarded these first-time grants will support both small-scale and larger-scale, long-term school initiatives.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The research projects will receive grants of up to $95,000 each from the Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) Program, part of the Energy Commission’s research and development work. will receive $95,000 to research a gas stove burner that is 30% more efficient than conventional gas stove burners. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc.

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Gas-Electric California Gas Energy 230

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2022

Oberon Fuels’ pilot DME production plant in Brawley, California, 2 hours east of San Diego. The plant was upgraded in 2020 with a grant from the California Energy Commission. In June, 2021, Oberon produced the first renewable DME (rDME) in the United States.

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Available Commercial San Diego Waste 195

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2014

The Energy Commission approved 15 grants totaling more than $5 million to install 475 electric vehicle chargers in communities throughout California, including the cities of San Francisco, Burbank, Torrance and San Diego and the counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles.

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California Energy San Diego San Francisco 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Eaton will supply a TVS (Twin Vortices Series) air pump to manage airflow in the demonstration of the Achates Power two-stroke opposed-piston engine (OP Engine) at the upcoming Internal Combustion Engine Fall Technical Conference in San Diego. —Mihai Dorobantu. Earlier post.).

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Eaton Engine San Diego Fuel Economy 191

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2012

The new all-electric trucks will operate from distribution centers located throughout California: Alameda, City of Industry, La Mirada, Manteca, San Diego, San Jose and Torrance. In the US, Frito-Lay hopes to reduce its total fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 50 pe%ent by 2020, compared to a 2007 baseline.

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2012 Fleet San Jose San Diego 258

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JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. of Monrovia, Calif.; Flux Power of Vista, Calif.;

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Energy Storage California San Diego Batteries 300

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

The SDTS took on approximately 18,000 gallons of ReadiDiesel in San Diego, California. The renewable diesel fuel powered the Self Defense Test Ship’s General Electric LM-2500 gas-turbine engine and a Rolls Royce 501 K-17 gas-turbine generator. A US patent was granted to ARA in 2010 on the CH process.

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Renewable Diesel San Diego Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

These grants are provided through the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. New Leaf, located in San Diego, collects used cooking oil from more than 1,500 restaurants and industrial kitchens and converts it into biodiesel. Earlier post.) million to 5 million gallons a year.

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Los Angeles California Plug-in ZeroTruck 240

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. Total DOE award: $14,999,658.

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Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant 236

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The remaining projects are from PIER’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. These grants are capped at $95,000. University of California at San Diego will receive $95,000 to reduce the cost of biomass power generation by removing tar from the producer gas in the gasifier.

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Li-ion Grid Energy California 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Project Title: Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG).

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Mexico Oil North Carolina Florida 225

Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Transportation accounts for only 27 percent of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the U.S.; Another expectation is that homeowners and businesses will become “ fully electrified ” by replacing oil, propane and gas furnaces with heat pumps along with gas fired stoves as well as installing solar power and battery systems.

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Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions 140

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved almost $16 million in research grants to help develop the next generation of energy efficient technologies for commercial and residential buildings; $11 million for projects to convert feedstock and waste into biofuels; and about $900,000 for natural gas innovations. Natural Gas.

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Transportation Climate Energy Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

In addition, CEC awarded $1,815,274 to fund 20 energy research projects in the areas of transportation, electricity, and natural gas. Its benefits include the reduction of an estimated 32,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually—roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by 5,850 gasoline vehicles in a year.

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San Diego California Energy Transportation 346

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Nuvve Corporation, a San Diego-based vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology company, is participating in a program to deliver resource adequacy to local utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and California’s electrical grid using a large stationary battery located on the University of California San Diego’s (UC San Diego’s) campus microgrid.

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Grid San Diego Market Energy 334

Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) says the maiden voyage of their Class 8 heavy-duty electric semi marks the first time an electric semi has crossed the border hauling a standard load, marking an important milestone as the two nations move toward a net zero future. The big Petes have approx.

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Mexico San Diego Peterbilt Kenworth 52

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The California Energy Commission has approved eight grants that leverage more than $9.6 Project partners will provide $1,000,000 to match the state grant. If used in a motorcycle, the resulting powertrain will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 72% and save 70 gallons of petroleum each year. Biofuel production.

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Gas-Electric San Jose Gas California 236

Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

The ISO 15118-20 standard enables bidirectional communication between the charging station and the vehicle, and with OCPP 2.0.1 , permission is granted to go through the DC port. When we had that peak last year, we brought down the load to 52 gigawatts, but everything was turned on—methane gas generators, gasoline generators, everything.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a small town competing for resources with much larger California cities, like San Diego and Los Angeles, city leaders in Porterville took decisive steps early on to secure funding support for EV infrastructure. In just the last year, over 6,000 charge sessions have been initiated.

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Connect Connected Charging Fleet 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2016

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new way to increase the robustness and energy storage capability of a particular class of “lithium-rich” cathode materials by using a carbon dioxide-based gas mixture to create oxygen vacancies at the material’s surface. Click to enlarge. —Shirley Meng.

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San Diego Li-ion Ni-Li Lithium Ion 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

The South Coast air district is teaming up with air districts in the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego and San Joaquin Valley to make the project a statewide demonstration of 43 zero-emission battery electric and plug-in hybrid drayage trucks built by the four manufacturers serving major California ports.

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Peterbilt Kenworth California BYD 150

Driivz

MAY 1, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) have installed infrastructure to support more than 12,500 charging stations across the state. In Asheville and Greensboro, North Carolina, they have provided grants for electric bus charging.

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Industrial Industry San Diego North Carolina 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

The Energy Commission approved $18,690,000 in grants for projects that will expand the state’s fueling infrastructure for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Alameda County Industries, LLC, will receive $300,000 to partially offset the cost of a new compressed natural gas fueling station to serve its fleet. Garden City Sanitation, Inc.,

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Alternative Fuels Los Angeles Hydrogen Fuel 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Organizations such as Affordable Energy for All , whose coalition includes companies like Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric, heavily pushed this “rich vs. poor” narrative. Supporters of NEM 3.0 as early as March 17.

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Solar Tax California Climate 98