CleanTechnica EVs
AUGUST 16, 2023
power grid, particularly when it comes to grid reliability. There have been high-profile rotating power outages caused by a heatwave in California (August 2020), a winter storm in Texas (February 2021), and another winter storm in Tennessee and North Carolina (December 2022). Not to […]
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Military and non-proliferation experts are worried about the growing temptation by nuclear-armed countries to engage in a first-strike EMP attack using nuclear weapons that, while avoiding direct casualties, could prove devastating to electric grids and electronic devices from smartwatches to supercomputers. See the illustration, below.).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Tennessee Technological University. Adaptive Second-Use Battery Utilization with Different Degradation Levels for EV Charging Stations and Power Grid Support and Resiliency. Low-Cost and Scalable Second Use Battery Demonstration in Central California for Equitable Domestic Manufacturing and Job Growth. Smartville Inc.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. The Telechron Model Type E master station clock shown at top was used at the Tennessee Valley Authority beginning in the 1930s. regulated over 95 percent of all U.S.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2019
These partnerships will leverage the ability of electric car batteries to store energy and share it with homes, businesses and power grids—making electric vehicles even more useful, while promoting efficient energy use. The Nissan LEAF is built at three factories: Oppama, Japan; Sunderland, England; and Smyrna, Tennessee.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
American Electric Power has signed on as a corporate sponsor of The Pickens Plan, proposed by oil and gas industry veteran T. We can’t significantly develop renewable energy resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and introduce competition for liquid transportation fuels without a well-designed, reliable national transmission grid.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.
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