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ORNL researchers use blockchain to increase electric grid resiliency; Grid Guard

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A team led by Raymond Borges Hink at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a method using blockchain to protect communications between electronic devices in the electric grid, preventing cyberattacks and cascading blackouts. Grid Guard attestation framework and Anomaly Detection Module.

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PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

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JULY 30, 2020

A new study of the impact of high EV adoption on the Western US power grid by a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has found that 2028 grid resource adequacy—from generation through transmission—is likely to be sufficient for high EV penetration. million for the WECC.

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Grid Charging Power Grid California

Study finds GWP of electrolyzed hydrogen to meet ORD’s fuel needs would be 2.5x that of fossil fuels with 2020 grid mix

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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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Grid Hydrogen 2020 Fuel

New long-duration, extended capacity Na-Al battery design for grid storage

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MARCH 2, 2023

The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. Resources J. The new sodium-based molten salt battery uses two distinct reactions. hours under laboratory conditions.

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Molten Salt Grid Design Sodium

CoBank report finds that troubled US grid may need to use EVs for grid balancing

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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. US power outages are up 64% this decade compared to the previous decade.

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EPRI, NREL, and U of Washington form UNIFI consortium to advance grid-forming inverters to support renewables

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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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EPRI Washington Grid Renewable

NSF awards UCSD team $39M to improve integration of distributed energy resources into grid; EV batteries also

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

The major driver for the project is the need to decarbonize the electrical grid, protect it from cybersecurity attacks and make it more resilient. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus. The goal is to make the testbed available to outside research teams and industry by 2025.

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Cal ISO: California grid battery storage increased nearly 20x since 2019 to 5,000MW; projected to hit 52,000 MW by 2045

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JUNE 1, 2023

Today’s fleet of storage resources can capture enough electricity to power up to 5 million California homes. This amount remains unchanged from 2020 despite the jump in renewables due to drought-related declines in hydroelectric generation. By 2045, capacity is projected to increase another 10 times to 52,000 MW. compared to 2020.

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SHV Energy and LanzaTech partner to develop renewable propane solutions

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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.

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Renewable Energy Grid Carbon

NREL review explores potential value of EV managed charging for realizing effective vehicle-grid integration

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JANUARY 19, 2022

A team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has completed a literature review on the potential value of EV managed charging. Their findings, published in Energy & Environmental Science , provide a comprehensive look at how EVs and the grid could work together as the electric and transportation sectors become intertwined.

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Grid Charging Vehicles Renewable

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill. Frontier Energy, Inc.,

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Texas Hydrogen Renewable Austin

Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

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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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Grid Power Powered Fuel

Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

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JULY 6, 2023

Rolls-Royce has approved its mtu Kinetic PowerPacks, based on the mtu Series 4000 and 1600 diesel engines, for use with renewable diesel (HVO/Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) and the other synthetic diesel fuels of the EN15940 standard.

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Diesel Renewable Energy Storage Belgium

NERC: high probability of insufficient resources to meet electricity demand as early as Summer 2022 in parts of US

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Findings from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC’s) 2021 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) indicate there is a high probability of insufficient resources and energy to serve electricity demand, as early as Summer 2022, in many parts of the Western Interconnection.

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Next 10 reports explore rapid changes to California grid driven by EVs, distributed energy resources and community choice aggregation

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AUGUST 9, 2018

California’s grid is facing an era of rapid change. These innovations are all key elements in California’s efforts to transition to clean, renewable energy that is both reliable and affordable. Framework of Electric Mobility - Infrastructure - Charging - Grid Nexus. Noel Perry, businessman and founder of Next 10.

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Grid California Energy Renewable

NuScale, Shell and partners to assess hydrogen production using SMR

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

NuScale’s flexible SMR technology holds the potential—through hydrogen production—to balance and stabilize power grids dominated by renewable energies. Energy markets present reliability concerns at times when energy demand is high and renewable energy production is low.

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Hydrogen Production Idaho Utah

Virtual Peaker partners with Fermata Energy to bring V2G bi-directional vehicle charging technology to utilities

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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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Energy Charging Grid Climate Change

Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

Through the JuiceNet platform, these facilities can be remotely controlled and aggregated for grid balancing purposes relying on unidirectional and bidirectional (vehicle-to-grid, V2G) electricity flows. The acquisition of eMotorWerks marks Enel’s entrance into the US electric mobility market.

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Enel enters public transit electrification market in US; partners with MassCEC for electric bus fleet

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Enel X and MGL will provide an innovative electrification planning and analysis solution that will help inform the MBTA’s electrification strategy and has the potential to be applied in other markets. Enel is a multinational power company and a leading integrated player in the global power, gas and renewables markets.

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Fleet North America Market Massachusetts

HOMER Grid software now models EV charging stations

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JUNE 16, 2020

HOMER Energy by UL, a global developer of energy modeling software, announced that HOMER Grid , software for designing grid-tied distributed energy projects, can now model how hybrid systems power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The solution is to co-locate renewables and storage with charging infrastructure.

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Grid Charging Renewable Smart Charger

BMW Group plants stepping up activities in balancing-power market to contribute to grid stability

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JUNE 29, 2018

The energy control stations at BMW Group Plants Dingolfing and Landshut are stepping up their activities in the balancing-power market in Germany. Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant. Source: neon.

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Grid BMW Power Powered

eMotorWerks and LO3 Energy partner on local energy trading platform between EVs and renewable microgrid projects

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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. Local energy trading platforms are taking a foothold as a scalable and cost-effective way to enable flexibility management.

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Energy Renewable Grid Charging

DOE to fund research to reduce costs of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Many renewable resources are in remote locations on land, or planned far from shore (e.g. offshore wind), and HVDC transmission provides a solution for renewable integration onto the grid. HVDC transmission requires converters to switch the power from AC to DC and back again to connect to the grid.

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Cost Of Grid Convert Wind

SCE signs 7 contracts for 770 MW of battery-based energy storage for grid reliability

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MAY 11, 2020

Southern California Edison recently signed seven contracts totaling 770 megawatts of battery-based energy storage resources to help enhance the region’s electric system reliability needs. The projects will enhance electric grid reliability and help address potential energy shortfalls identified in California. NextEra Energy Resources.

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Battery

False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. Purveyors of EVs would have a new public-policy rationale backing up their market. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid.

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Grid Power Powered Vehicles

NREL researchers evaluating blockchain for transactive energy applications

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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. The results highlighted the path for future research.

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Energy Grid Solar Power Grid

EIA: natural gas-fired reciprocating engines are being deployed more to balance renewables

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The recent increase in natural gas or dual-fuel capable reciprocating internal combustion engine units has been driven in part by advancements in engine technology that increase operational flexibility and by changes in natural gas markets that have generally provided ample supply and relatively stable fuel prices, EIA said.

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Gas Renewable Engine San Antonio

California agencies release report charting path to 100% clean electricity; need to triple grid capacity by 2045

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MARCH 16, 2021

The California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the first joint agency report and a summary document examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045.

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Clean Cleaning Grid California

California ISO releases five-year strategic plan; grid integration of renewable power, support for electric vehicle charging

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JANUARY 21, 2012

The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), California’s non-profit grid operator, released its new five-year (2012-2016) strategic plan. Between now and 2020, wind and solar generation will quadruple within the ISO transmission grid at the same time electric vehicle charging increases significantly.

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Grid Renewable California Electric Vehicles

BMW Group and PG&E launching ChargeForward Phase 3 pilot; V2G testing

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MARCH 23, 2021

The BMW Group and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced an expanded partnership that further leverages renewable energy to sustainably power electric vehicles (EVs). ChargeForward is the first smart charging program to offer customers incentives for maximizing the integration of renewable energy while optimizing their EV charging.

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BMW Grid Renewable Charging

What is Renewable energy integration, challenges, why it is needed

Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

what is renewable energy integration ? Renewable energy integration refers to the process of efficiently incorporating renewable energy sources into existing energy systems. Energy Storage: Renewable energy sources are often intermittent, meaning they don’t produce energy consistently.

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Renewable Energy Energy Storage Wind

DOE report highlights opportunities of hybrid energy systems

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APRIL 30, 2021

These opportunities could drive the production of valuable fuels, chemicals, and products, provide greater cost savings, increase grid flexibility, and enhance environmental performance across a range of DOE-funded technologies. Hybridization can also help mitigate financial penalties for variable resources (e.g., Source: DOE.

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Energy Hybrid Grid Idaho

CARB publishes 2020 CI values for electricity as transportation fuel: average 82.92 gCO2e/MJ, up from 2019

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MARCH 10, 2020

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Executive Officer has certified the 2020 annual update to the carbon intensities (CI) of the lookup table pathways for a) California Average Grid Electricity Used as a Transportation Fuel in California and b) Electricity Supplied under the Smart Charging or Smart Electrolysis Provision.

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2020 2019 Transportation Fuel

NREL study finds that uncoordinated plug-in vehicle charging could prove challenging to the grid

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JANUARY 23, 2018

An influx of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging without coordination could prove challenging to the nation’s electric grid, according to research conducted by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The simulation concluded that a PEV market share of up to 3%—about 7.5

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Grid Plug-in Plug Charging

FuelCell Energy and Toyota complete first “Tri-gen” production system

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Tri-gen system, owned and operated by FuelCell Energy, produces renewable electricity, renewable hydrogen, and water from directed biogas. By supporting TLS operations at the Port of Long Beach, Tri-gen’s carbon-neutral products are expected to reduce more than 9,000 tons of CO 2 emission from the power grid each year.

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Long Beach Toyota Energy Production

California legislature passes SB 100: 100% renewable and zero-carbon energy by 2045

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AUGUST 29, 2018

The California Assembly has passed Senate Bill 100 —a bill to move California to 100% renewable and zero-carbon energy by 2045. The bill also establishes state policy that RPS-eligible and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers no later than 31 December 2045.

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California Carbon Renewable Energy

DOE provides $65M for “connected communities” of buildings powered to transform electric system

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $65 million through its Connected Communities funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to expand DOE’s network of grid-interactive efficient building communities nationwide. ( optimizing for energy cost, grid services, and occupant needs and preferences, in a continuous and integrated way.

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Connect Connected Building Grid

Ricardo, National Grid study explores market potential for grid-balancing services for plug-in vehicles

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MAY 10, 2011

The report, Bucks for balancing: can plug-in vehicles of the future extract cash—and carbon—from the power grid? , is based on a research collaboration between a team of engineers from Ricardo and National Grid, the operator of the high voltage electricity transmission system within Great Britain (GB). Click to enlarge.

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Grid Plug-in Plug Market

v2g, g2v technology company benefits drivers and grid

Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) are two-way communication technologies that involve the flow of electricity between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. Let’s explore each in detail: Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology: 1. Let’s explore each in detail: Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology: 1.

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BASF produces methanol on basis of biomass balance approach; production with renewable raw materials reduces GHG at least 50%

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

BASF has introduced a product for the production of methanol on the basis of renewable raw materials according to the biomass balance approach. The company replaces fossil raw materials with second-generation renewable raw materials and uses waste as well as residual materials. The product name is EU-REDcert-methanol.

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Renewable Production Gas-Electric Waste

Tesla’s solar neighborhood in Austin could help TX learn if renewables are viable

Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Brookfield Vice President of Sales and Marketing Tammy Schneider estimates Easton Park will be fully built in 8 to 10 years with about 10,000 homes. These directives build upon the reforms passed this session to increase power generation capacity & ensure the reliability of the Texas power grid. and Darca on the project.

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Neighborhood Austin Solar Renewable

DOE seeking public input regarding “energysheds”

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JULY 12, 2021

Given that the term “energyshed” is relatively new, DOE is seeking feedback on its concept and definition, as well as its application to the electric grid. DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is seeking input on: Concept and Definition: Additional or alternate energyshed definitions; benefits and drawbacks. Morton, A.M.

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Grid Concept Water Renewable

Study: California needs up to 55 GW of long duration energy storage by 2045; 150X the storage deployed since 2010

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The findings demonstrate the need for California to begin developing procurement and compensation models for long duration energy storage now to ensure that these resources can be deployed and online in the next 5-10 years, CESA said. The RFO seeks to have resources with a minimum discharge period of eight hours come online by 2026.

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Energy Storage 2010 California Energy

California Energy Commission adopts offshore wind goals: 5GW by 2030, 25 GW by 2045

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AUGUST 11, 2022

The California Energy Commission (CEC) adopted a report establishing offshore wind goals and moving the state one step closer to development of the clean energy resource off California’s coast. Additional transmission infrastructure will be needed to deliver offshore wind energy from this region to the grid. Maxwell, Sara M.,

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Wind California Energy Mariner

ORNL researchers use blockchain to increase electric grid resiliency; Grid Guard

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

Study finds GWP of electrolyzed hydrogen to meet ORD’s fuel needs would be 2.5x that of fossil fuels with 2020 grid mix

New long-duration, extended capacity Na-Al battery design for grid storage

CoBank report finds that troubled US grid may need to use EVs for grid balancing

EPRI, NREL, and U of Washington form UNIFI consortium to advance grid-forming inverters to support renewables

NSF awards UCSD team $39M to improve integration of distributed energy resources into grid; EV batteries also

Cal ISO: California grid battery storage increased nearly 20x since 2019 to 5,000MW; projected to hit 52,000 MW by 2045

SHV Energy and LanzaTech partner to develop renewable propane solutions

NREL review explores potential value of EV managed charging for realizing effective vehicle-grid integration

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

NERC: high probability of insufficient resources to meet electricity demand as early as Summer 2022 in parts of US

Next 10 reports explore rapid changes to California grid driven by EVs, distributed energy resources and community choice aggregation

NuScale, Shell and partners to assess hydrogen production using SMR

Virtual Peaker partners with Fermata Energy to bring V2G bi-directional vehicle charging technology to utilities

Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market

Enel enters public transit electrification market in US; partners with MassCEC for electric bus fleet

HOMER Grid software now models EV charging stations

BMW Group plants stepping up activities in balancing-power market to contribute to grid stability

eMotorWerks and LO3 Energy partner on local energy trading platform between EVs and renewable microgrid projects

DOE to fund research to reduce costs of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission

SCE signs 7 contracts for 770 MW of battery-based energy storage for grid reliability

False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

NREL researchers evaluating blockchain for transactive energy applications

EIA: natural gas-fired reciprocating engines are being deployed more to balance renewables

California agencies release report charting path to 100% clean electricity; need to triple grid capacity by 2045

California ISO releases five-year strategic plan; grid integration of renewable power, support for electric vehicle charging

BMW Group and PG&E launching ChargeForward Phase 3 pilot; V2G testing

What is Renewable energy integration, challenges, why it is needed

DOE report highlights opportunities of hybrid energy systems

CARB publishes 2020 CI values for electricity as transportation fuel: average 82.92 gCO2e/MJ, up from 2019

NREL study finds that uncoordinated plug-in vehicle charging could prove challenging to the grid

FuelCell Energy and Toyota complete first “Tri-gen” production system

California legislature passes SB 100: 100% renewable and zero-carbon energy by 2045

DOE provides $65M for “connected communities” of buildings powered to transform electric system

Ricardo, National Grid study explores market potential for grid-balancing services for plug-in vehicles

v2g, g2v technology company benefits drivers and grid

BASF produces methanol on basis of biomass balance approach; production with renewable raw materials reduces GHG at least 50%

Tesla’s solar neighborhood in Austin could help TX learn if renewables are viable

DOE seeking public input regarding “energysheds”

Study: California needs up to 55 GW of long duration energy storage by 2045; 150X the storage deployed since 2010

California Energy Commission adopts offshore wind goals: 5GW by 2030, 25 GW by 2045

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