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. 1 million to use high-fidelity solar forecasting to predict load impacts on California’s electricity grid and reduce solar integration costs. Itron, Inc.: $1

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 5, 2021

In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan sits down with Rob Grant, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Social Impact at Cruise, to talk about Cruise’s work in the autonomous vehicle space. You can listen to the full conversation in the embedded player below.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 14, 2017

At the same time, ever-cheaper renewable energy—not only solar, but surprisingly fast-growing wind generation—is now. has vastly increased its oil and gas production, driving down prices of fossil fuels globally.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

million in grant funding secured earlier this year. Estonian startup UP Catalyst, a company developing a method to produce sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite from CO 2 , has closed a successful pre-seed round of €500,000, in addition to €1.59

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Solar panel output depends on the weather, for example, as do wind turbines. DERConnect will include more than 2,500 distributed energy resources, or DERs, on the campus’ microgrid, with its fuel cell and solar panels, a dozen classroom and office buildings, as well as 300 charging stations for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

Xcel Energy has released the preliminary results from its wind-to-battery (W2B) storage project in Minnesota, and termed the technology successful. In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

Smoothly integrating intermittent renewable power such as wind and solar onto the electric grid while also maintaining grid stability has been challenging. This is the third and final license granted for PNNL’s technologies to all-vanadium, mixed acid redox flow battery developers. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2020

The ARENA round is a $70-million grant program aiming to demonstrate the technical and commercial viability of hydrogen production at a large-scale using electrolysis. ARENA and the CEFC have previously worked together to accelerate clean energy developments, including through the successful large-scale solar funding program.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2020

The preliminary feasibility outcomes indicate a significant commercial gap and it is expected that grant and concession funding will be required for hydrogen production facilities in the short to medium term. Hydrogen can be produced via electrolysis, and when produced using renewable electricity, is emissions-free.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The process is powered by either wind, solar or hydro energy resulting in a carbon negative production line. million in grants and has expanded its customer base outside of the European borders. Such carbon-negative products have various applications ranging from paints and coatings to electronics and concrete.

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My Energi

APRIL 25, 2024

Citing concerns surrounding ‘additional pressure on public finances’ and ‘limitations surrounding legal and fiscal considerations’, ministers also rejected calls to reinstate EV purchase grants – a scheme that proved vital in supporting the growth of the electric car market before its closure in June 2022.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. But solar is just the opening gambit. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

electric utility company, battery manufacturers Exide and beta-motion and inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) have joined forces to build the first multi-technology, modular large-scale 5MW battery storage system. Batteries Power Generation Solar Wind' Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, E.ON

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Arun Raju, director of the Center for Renewable Natural Gas at UC Riverside, recently received a $146,000 grant from Southern California Gas Co. The study will examine the limitations of intermittent renewable options, such as wind and solar energy, which are only available at certain hours of the day.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

The Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) has granted PowerCell Sweden AB SEK5 million (US$600,000) to develop a modular fuel cell system for stationary applications. Supported by the awarded grant from the Swedish Energy Agency, PowerCell will develop a modular fuel cell system for stationary applications. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

government was going to try a whole bunch of different government interventions—incentive programs, tax credits, grants, infrastructure investments—to bend the trajectory of our energy transition. What was the maximum share of wind that we could have in the system without blowing it up—5 percent or 20 percent or 30 percent?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Release 2 grants to projects that demonstrate commercial feasibility for innovations during the second phase of their research. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is awarding $43.6 Awards include: Accustrata Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 Precourt Institute for Energy grants. Making Large Wind Farms More Productive, Less Expensive. Flora, H-STAR.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2013

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a grants opportunity notice ( PD-14-7644 ) for up to about $13 million in awards to fundamental research and education that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and transportation fuels. Photovoltaic Solar Energy. Wind Energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. The problem is more pressing for large systems as they face higher vulnerabilities. —Huazhen Fang.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The device—known as TESS (thermal energy storage system)—is being developed in South Australia with the help of an AUD $400,000 government grant to take it from prototype to commercial reality. The TESS device stores electricity as thermal energy by heating and melting containers full of silicon.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2018

These grants will support research and development of solution methods applicable to optimizing the electric power sector’s preventative security-constrained optimal power flow ( PSCOPF ) problem. Recent years have seen major developments in distributed energy resources (DER), intermittent resources (wind and solar), and storage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Financing is planned through debt and grants. Products from this captive plant will now be expanded to broader markets including utilities, energy storage of wind and solar, aerospace, micro-grids, marine and automotive industries while maintaining supply to its present customer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE), TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) have awarded 9 faculty seed grants totaling $2.2 Ultrathin Light Absorbers for Solar Cells. Most solar-driven water-splitting experiments are conducted at room temperature.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index tracks the granting of US patents in solar, wind, hybrid/electric vehicles, fuel cells, hydroelectric, tidal/wave, geothermal, biomass/biofuels and clean, renewable energy. GM’s 135 patents represent nearly 14% of the total 1,881 received by 700 entities.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Paired with renewable energy sources like solar, wind, or other energy sources, facilities can use the BES system to store and harness solar power or as a backup power source by storing energy from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Earlier post.).

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My Energi

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Zero rating will also be granted to products installed at commercial properties used solely for charitable purposes. The move essentially means that investing in next-generation solutions to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy bills will be easier and more cost-effective than ever before for UK households.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

However, the growth in renewable energy sources – like solar, hydro and wind power – across the United States is also helping to eliminate emissions associated with the charging of EVs. The more vehicles that switch to running on electricity, the better.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

They say the smoke lowered the base of the clouds and increased wind shear, defined as wind speed variations with respect to altitude. One type of simulation included smoke and its effect on solar radiation and clouds, while the other omitted smoke.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

solar, wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear) as compared to the eastern US (EUS), where the electricity market is dominated by pollutant and precursor emitting combustion sources (i.e., The research was supported by the Ubben Program for Carbon and Climate Science and the National Science Foundation (grant number CBET-1848683).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2012

Prayon is the sixth company to reach such an agreement with LiFePO 4 +C, which grants a limited number of sub-licenses to. superior safety profile of which offer great potential for hybrid and electric vehicle batteries as well as stationary applications (solar and wind power storage systems). Phosphates (OCP S.A.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

The nation’s second-largest utility owner and operator of wind power, PSE will be exploring how EV charging stations and renewable energy generating facilities, such as wind and solar power, work together to reduce the carbon emissions from the transportation system. Earlier post.).

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