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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

On Thursday afternoon, the San Diego, California region lost both major grid connections, resulting in loss of power for some 1.4 million customers of San Diego Gas and Electric, plus some consumers in Arizona and Mexico.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and General Motors today announced an agreement to investigate the feasibility of integrating bidirectional EVs into the electric grid as a local energy resource.

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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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APRIL 21, 2022

As the number of EVs grows and especially as larger trucks and buses electrify with larger batteries, there will be opportunities to use those batteries also to support the grid. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Rhombus, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and Zeem Solutions.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Photo: BEAM Global The British military has placed a $1 million order for San Diego-based Beam Global’s (Nasdaq: BEEM) off-grid solar EV chargers. It’s the first big order for Beam Global’s Europe factory, but it’s already sold “hundreds” of US-manufactured off-grid solar EV chargers to the US military.

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MARCH 17, 2017

and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), in cooperation with the State of California and public utility company San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), started the demonstration of the United States’ largest redox flow battery system in California. Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

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JULY 8, 2022

have launched a new pilot program that creates a virtual power plant (VPP) to help support electric grid reliability and save customers money. VPPs are a valuable resource for supporting grid reliability and an essential part of California’s clean energy future. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla Inc.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

The MOU was signed by the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP), Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE), with additional utilities planning to join soon.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

A new Albertsons supermarket in the San Diego, California community of Clairemont is generating nearly 90% of the electricity it needs with a PureCell 400 kW fuel cell from UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. The PureCell 400 system uses a Fuel Processor (reformer) to reform natural gas to hydrogen to feed the Fuel Cell Stack.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

has entered a multi-year partnership with the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and its battery validation lab to analyze viable business and technical approaches revto reuse and repurpose electric vehicle batteries effectively. Cummins Inc. —Julie Furber, Vice President – Electrified Power, Cummins.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

UC San Diego. Adaptive Second-Use Battery Utilization with Different Degradation Levels for EV Charging Stations and Power Grid Support and Resiliency. Development and Scaling Up of the Purification and Regeneration Integrated Materials Engineering (PRIME) Process for Cathodes Direct Recycling and Upcycling. 10,000,000.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

General Motors (GM) is looking to accelerate the adoption of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities in EVs. A new partnership with San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will investigate integrating bidirectional charging into the grid to improve energy distribution.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The off-grid, standalone chargers are strategically located throughout the Central Valley and inland areas of Southern California, intended to provide greater access to sustainable EV charging for drivers in rural parts of the state. Ten solar-powered charging stations were deployed in coordination with the Fresno County Rural Transit Agency.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 27, 2021

The state of California recently ordered 52 solar-powered EV chargers from San Diego-based Beam Global. The off-grid clean energy chargers will provide electricity in emergency situations and charge zero-emissions state fleets.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Under a proposal submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) this week, San Diego-based SDG&E is seeking approval to build charging infrastructure to enable about 3,000 medium/heavy-duty vehicles to go electric. One cutting-edge element of the proposal is an electric school bus vehicle-to-grid pilot.

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JULY 29, 2014

The Electric Power Research Institute, 8 automakers and 15 utilities are working to develop and to demonstrate an open platform that would integrate plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) with smart grid technologies enabling utilities to support PEV charging regardless of location. Automakers and V2G. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2017 to 2018, Mitsui O.S.K.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

million zero-emission vehicles on state roads by 2025, the San Diego region would need 150,000 EVs on its roads. Currently, the San Diego region has only around 19,000 EVs. million electric meters and 881,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Electrify America is investing $2 million in solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in rural California that are not tied to the electrical grid. Electrify America is sourcing the chargers from Envision Solar, a San Diego-based sustainable technology company.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Center will consist of one virtual hub and two physical locations—one in San Diego, which will be managed by the California Center for Sustainable Energy, and one in Los Angeles, which will be managed by the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

For more than 20 years, California has aggressively supported the rooftop solar market through its Net Energy Metering (NEM) program in Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) territories. per kW for residential solar plus storage and solar-only systems.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This advancement opens opportunities spanning the spectrum from consumer, commercial and industrial electric vehicles to defense systems such as a connected battlefield, unmanned vehicles and subzero power to all-weather energy applications for grid storage and power backup to marine sea monitoring, electric boats, submarines and more.

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EV Obssesion

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Electric Buses in the News Massachusetts Electric School Bus Helps Power Electricity Grid in Breakthrough for Vehicle-to-Grid Technology San Diego MTS orders 12 NFI zero-emission, electric, articulated transit buses Fossil Free Steel VOLVO LAUNCHES WORLD’S FIRST VEHICLE USING FOSSIL-FREE STEEL Battery News LiNa Energy closes out a £3.5m

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

University of California San Diego nanoengineers, in collaboration with researchers at LG Energy Solution, have developed a battery that combines a solid-state electrolyte and an all-silicon anode. It holds promise for a wide range of applications from grid storage to electric vehicles. —Darren H. Tan, lead author.

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JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. At minus 60 ?C, C, the team demonstrated lithium-metal anode cycling efficiency of 98.4%.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In a pilot vehicle-to-grid project, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is actively bidding a group of energy storage systems and electric vehicle fleets as one resource directly into the California Independent System Operator’s ( CAISO ) energy markets. Earlier post.). This project does just that. —James P.

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JULY 22, 2011

General Motors and OnStar are launching a real-world pilot of smart grid applications for electric vehicles. Through OnStar’s ATOMS infrastructure and partners’ solutions, utilities will be able to implement two Smart Grid services in the pilot: Data Gathering.

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JUNE 16, 2017

Five of those will be located in Southern California: in Huntington Beach, Irvine, San Diego, Santa Monica, and Sherman Oaks. The remaining three will be in the San Francisco Bay Area: in Campbell, Oakland and Sunnyvale. FirstElement Fuel, Inc. will develop eight hydrogen refueling stations.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

University of California, San Diego. The University of California, San Diego, will develop genetic tools, high-throughput screening methods, and breeding strategies for green algae and cyanobacteria, targeting robust production strains.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The organizations collaborating with Electrify America on this initiative include Valley Clean Air Now (Valley CAN), Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment (PACE), Chinese Newcomers Service Center (CNSC), Self Help for the Elderly (SHE), Liberty Hill Foundation (LHF) and GRID Alternatives.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Under current policies, home energy storage systems would also often increase carbon emissions, according to a study by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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EV Obssesion

AUGUST 19, 2021

Global energy technology leader and California school district team up to provide cleaner rides for students SAN DIEGO, CA (August 18, 2021) — Nuvve Holding Corp.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Working with Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems company, Nissan North America is launching a new pilot program under the Nissan Energy Share initiative which leverages bi?directional directional EV charging technology to partially power its North American headquarters in Franklin, TN, and its design center in San Diego, CA.

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JUNE 12, 2015

CSE will work closely with KnGrid , a leader in vehicle-grid communications, to create a standardized platform that optimizes charging benefits for both grid operators and vehicle owners. Once the DCH platform is developed, it will be tested in a demonstration fleet of EVs at UC San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

A diverse set of public interest groups, automakers, labor unions, and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) submitted a proposed settlement to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to accelerate the deployment of smart electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that would support the utility grid in San Diego.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The grants were awarded to the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG); the Ventura County Air Quality Management District; the Bay Area Air Quality Management District; and the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. The four awards just approved included: $199,379 to SANDAG.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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