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Australia’s first fully off-grid and renewable battery truck project now fully operational

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Logistics company announces completion of Australia's first off-grid and totally renewable electric truck hub, charging a fleet of 30 electric trucks with onsite solar and battery storage. The post Australia’s first fully off-grid and renewable battery truck project now fully operational appeared first on The Driven.

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Renewable Energy Production & Use In Utah

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However, living in Utah for 20 years and traveling north to south and east to west, the only grid-scale clean energy. continued] The post Renewable Energy Production & Use In Utah appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Will Supercapacitors Come to AI's Rescue?

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electricity provider National Grid faces a problem every time there is a soccer match on (or any other widely viewed televised event for that matter): During half-time, or a commercial break, an inordinate number of viewers go to turn on their tea kettles. These and other such products can help smooth out load fluctuations on the grid.

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The Transformer Transformer

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Modern power grids cant run without transformers, which step voltages up and down for distribution from power plants to power stations and on to homes and businesses. Whats worse, the way we use the power grid is stressing transformers even more. As Andrew Moseman reports in Engineers Transform Transformers to Save the Power Grid [p.

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Tesla Megapacks power on at Western Australia’s largest battery yet

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Grid operators in Western Australia have turned on a Tesla Megapack project earlier than expected, coming under 18 months since construction began and becoming the state’s largest battery project yet.

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Can a New Power Link Boost the EU’s Energy Independence?

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At the moment, the Caucasus nations dont produce enough renewable electricity to export it, so they would have to build at least three times more capacity. In 2016, for example, the country set a goal of sourcing 20 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020. The plant supplies up to 230 megawatts of power to Azerbaijans grid.

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Tesla China’s first Megapack exports are headed for a big battery in Australia

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As per recent reports, the massive grid-scale Tesla batteries are bound for Queenslands Western Downs battery project. A few days ago, Tesla announced that the first Megapack battery units from its Shanghai Megafactory were being shipped to Australia. Megafactory gives us the ability to scale production and efficiency.

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