Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Seeking to slash CO 2 emissions from its North American manufacturing operations, Honda has entered into long-term virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar power that will cover more than 60% of the electricity that Honda uses in North America. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The largest of these facilities is the Denton Energy Center, which came online in July 2018 outside Dallas, Texas, and it has twelve 18.8 Because these units can start and stop quickly and operate at partial loads, they have become increasingly important in areas with high shares of renewable electricity generation from wind and solar.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Photo: Enel North America Power-hungry Texas needs solar and battery storage to help meet demand and balance the grid, so its largest utility-scale storage operator is delivering. Ables Springs is Enel’s 17th renewables project in the state, where it has installed 3.8 GW of wind and solar plus over 1 GW of grid-scale storage.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 8, 2024

Photo by Drew Rae on Pexels.com A total solar eclipse will bring complete darkness to 12 US states today – watch live to see its effect on solar power and the grid across all 50 US states. As the eclipse cuts a path from Texas to Maine, they expect a 71% peak power reduction in the East, 45% in the West, and 93% in the Texas grid, ERCOT.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. SunHouse is expected to comprise a few thousand homes, and according to Brad Chelton, president of Brookfield Residential Texas, the Tesla Solar and Powerwalls would be available even to entry-level homes.

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Teslarati

JULY 12, 2022

Tesla’s been working with the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). The hope is that Texas will allow homeowners with Tesla Powerwall to participate in virtual power plants (VPPs). The End Goal Is For Tesla Powerall Owners In Texas To Be Able To Help Support The Grid.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Government agencies and municipalities are lining up to buy Beam Global’s EV ARC solar-powered off-grid EV charging systems, which not only come in handy in a disaster-recovery scenario, but also offer a quick and simple way to deploy EV charging. Disaster preparedness and energy resiliency are imperative for national security.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

The partnership enables sodium-ion battery technology to be incorporated in a range of renewable energy applications including residential energy storage, commercial micro-grids, wind turbine and tidal energy storage. The recent power outages in Texas highlight the importance of reliable, large-scale energy storage.

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Teslarati

JULY 10, 2022

Tesla and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) invitd 25,000 customers to create the world’s largest distributed battery to support grid reliability, the utility announced. The program allows homeowners with a Tesla Powerwall to send electricity to the grid when needed. ” Texas PUC & ERCOT Should Take Notes. .”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

Utilities and their regulators can match the readiness of fleets to deploy electric trucks with workable, commonsense plans to maximize the use of existing grid distribution capacity and plan for growth to meet future needs. California and Texas alone are projected to account for a combined 19% of charging energy needs in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Other partner companies such as Sony, Whirlpool, Oncor and Intel provided Mueller residents with forward-looking smart grid and clean energy products and services.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Tesla specifically mentioned its proven capabilities in providing grid support in Australia with the Hornsdale Power Reserve and the Victorian Big Battery. Based on the company’s application, TEVA will function similarly to Tesla Electric in Texas. Read Tesla’s application to AER below.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Oncor announced they are coordinating efforts to help prepare North Texas for the operation of electric vehicles. Cooperation between Ford and Oncor also involves working with the state and local governments on the most efficient ways to bring EVs to north Texas. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with two electric utilities, recently examined the causes, costs and lead times of distribution system upgrades anticipated for depot charging of short-haul heavy-duty trucks in the United States. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Energy. Borlaug, B.,

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Teslarati

JUNE 15, 2023

VPPs can be used for a variety of reasons, but affordability and grid stabilization through sustainable energy are the biggest advantages. It allowed owners to earn money by contributing stored energy through their Powerwalls to provide grid services. Coming to Texas Tesla Electric customers soon! ” Absolutely.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

The company currently has more than 50 patents focused on creating more efficient and sustainable lithium extraction processes, as well as lithium batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale renewable energy storage.

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Teslarati

MAY 27, 2023

Tesla is pushing customers in Texas to commit to a new Model 3 purchase by offering a new charging incentive that will allow owners to charge at home for free for one year. The automaker is now attempting to push Texas customers toward a new Model 3 purchase before the end of Q2 by offering free home, charging for one year.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) board of directors unanimously approved a pilot project that allows Tesla virtual power plants (VPPs). Energy Markets Policy Lead, Arushi Sharma Frank, has been working tirelessly with the Texas utility and the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) to make this happen.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

These conductivity-enhanced materials have the potential to lower the costs and impacts of adding renewables and electric cars to the grid, maximize next-generation energy storage technologies, and support electrification for energy-intensive sectors. Advanced Manufacturing Office.?.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The parties plan to build a network of charging sites on critical freight routes along the east and west coasts and in Texas by 2026, leveraging existing infrastructure and amenities while adding complementary greenfield sites to fulfill anticipated customer demand. BlackRock’s Renewable Power group is a part of BlackRock Real Assets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Lithium, a critical material used in high-charge-density batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale electricity storage, is a crucial element in the clean energy supply chain. Texas Tech University – Tech Desal. University of Texas at Austin – Freeman Lab. Nearly all of the US lithium stock is imported.

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Green Energy Consumers

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Although we’re not experts on the Texas grid system as much as we are in New England , we’ve noti ced a lot of confusion and deliberate misinformation surrounding the blackouts. Our hearts go out to T exans. The cold, snow, ice, power outages , and water shutoffs have gone way past inconvenient for people there.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. Achieving our EV vision to have 1.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More transmission is also needed to deliver renewable energy from remote locations to load centers, but the LTRA acknowledges that build-time and siting are additional constraints that need to be considered in planning and policy setting. NERC develops and enforces Reliability Standards; annually assesses seasonal and long?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The University of Michigan (U-M) and eight partner institutions will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors as replacements for the traditional liquid or polymer electrolytes in common lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and in flow cells for storing renewable energy in the grid.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Tesla’s battery for homes, the Powerwall, has become a key component of the company’s projects like the California virtual power plant, which was tapped to support the grid during several events this year. In Texas, the company has launched Tesla Electric , which also uses Powerwall batteries and solar. .

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. power-grid transmission. year grid study from the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 19, 2021

Both Tesla’s giant batteries and energy software have the potential to support the country’s shift to renewable energy. Tesla’s foray into Japan comes as the country is pushing its efforts to increase its reliance on renewable energy. Tesla, for its part, has remained silent about its battery storage push in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Scott Keogh, President, Audi of America (Co-Chair); Dean Seavers, President, National Grid U.S. Chair: Johney Green, Associate Lab Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. —Scott Keogh, president, Audi of America. Passek, President, Copper Development Association; William Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa.;

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. Gravity Energy Storage Will Show Its Potential in 2021 Why was this Spectrum 's most popular energy story of the year?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. In France, renewable energy consumption will be 20 percent by 2020. EIA projections of renewables penetration. in Texas, a 15% swing.)

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Smart Meters and Needs Smart energy meters as compared to conventional meters provides flexibility in terms of safety, responsive time, storing and reading data remotely, provides wireless communication that enables the feasibility of calculating the overload and underload on grid through a particular area.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

Among the new pathways to be considered is the production of renewable diesel from Australian tallow at Neste Oil’s Singapore plant. Others are sugarcane molasses ethanol from Guatemala; mixed feedstock to biodiesel from Texas; and a new ARB-staff-developed pathway for North American landfill gas. Neste Oil renewable diesel: 33.46

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Denver, Colo. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., Groundwork Renewables Inc., Louisville, Colo. Tustin, Calif. San Jose, Calif. Vitriflex Inc., Tempe, Ariz.

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