Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

bp confirmed it is planning a new large-scale green hydrogen production facility in the North East of England that could deliver up to 500MWe (megawatt electrical input) of hydrogen production by 2030. bp is aiming to start production by 2025, with an initial phase of some 60MWe of installed hydrogen production capacity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

bp has been awarded the rights to develop two offshore wind projects in the German tender round, marking its entry into offshore wind in continental Europe. bp will lead the development, construction and operations of these fixed-bottom offshore wind projects, with grid connection targeted by end 2030.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Gigastack project, led by ITM Power, Ørsted, Phillips 66 Limited and Element Energy, will show how renewable hydrogen derived from offshore wind can support the UK’s 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emission target. from an offshore wind farm—the process of producing hydrogen from water (electrolysis) can be decarbonized.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The aim of the three-year project is to develop an agile and digitalized production system complete with modular product concept for innovative electric motors. Stator with hairpin winding from the pilot phase of the AgiloDrive research project at KIT. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Photo: Markus Breig, KIT).

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Baua Electric

MAY 24, 2024

Aeromine Technologies just closed a $9 million funding round, and it’s ready to scale up production of its bladeless rooftop wind turbines. Aeromine, launched in 2022, makes compact 50 kW or larger “wind harvesting platforms” that it mounts on the edge of a building’s roof. Specs are here.) Get started here. –ad*

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

A team of researchers led by Loretta Roberson, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, has installed the first seaweed farm in Puerto Rico and US tropical waters. Puerto Rico has stable warm temperatures and ample sunlight year-round, as well as a wide range of exposure to prevailing winds and waves.

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Electrek

JUNE 7, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Hitachi ABB Power Grids launches transformer products for offshore floating wind farms. Turbine installation is complete at Denmark’s largest wind farm, the offshore Kriegers Flak. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Iberdrola Australia and Australia-based hydrogen developer ABEL Energy will build a green hydrogen and green methanol production plant at Bell Bay in northern Tasmania (Australia). The Bell Bay Powerfuels Project will incorporate one of the largest electrolyzer units—more than100MW—to be installed in Australia by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

RevoTech will be applying its continuous pyrolysis technology to convert waste plastic into gas, while Doosan will be developing the main equipment and processes for reforming the product gas into hydrogen. The production of green hydrogen using wind power is also well underway on Jeju island.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020. Statkraft is an important player in energy trading.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

has entered into a confidential Letter of Intent (LOI) with a large industrial company to provide more than 40 MW of RuggedCell water electrolyzer capacity for hydrogen production. It also specifies that the installed systems could be scaled up as demand for hydrogen grows. Hydrogen Optimized , a subsidiary of Key DH Technologies Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Researchers at Fraunhofer IFAM have developed a casting technique that can be used to produce lightweight aluminum windings with a higher groove fill factor to replace copper windings in electric motors. Among the results with the aluminum windings: The groove fill factor could be increased from 32 to 60%. millimeters.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 19, 2024

Monopiles are steel tubes driven into the seabed that serve as the foundation for offshore wind turbines and support their weight and wind loads. The SeAH Wind Monopile Factory in Teesworks, spanning a vast 90-acre site, will produce monopiles weighing up to 3,000 tons. Get started here.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Water, a potential by-product, is drained off. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Following the start of series production of fuel cells in December 2022, the Danish fuel cell developer and manufacturer Blue World Technologies is now launching the CellPack Stationary, a methanol fuel cell-based power generator.

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Electrek

APRIL 17, 2023

The first turbine has been installed at the Hollandse Kust Noord super-hybrid offshore wind farm – which will also feature floating solar, battery storage, and green hydrogen production. more… The post This super-hybrid offshore wind farm just got its first turbine appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2020

In Germany, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has launched AgiloDrive, a project seeking to develop novel product kits and production technologies for electric motors for direct transfer to industry. An electric motor for EVs, which is adapted to the installation space. Photo: Schaeffler). Photo: Gehring).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mercedes-Benz Cars has begun production of the first Mercedes-Benz compact vehicles with plug-in hybrid drive ( earlier post ) at the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant in southern Germany. The production launch of the Mercedes-Benz A-class in two plug-in hybrid models is a strategic milestone as part of our global electric initiative.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2018

Series production of electric motors officially started in Audi’s Gy?r, The electric motors are produced on floor space of 8,500 square meters using an innovative modular assembly production concept. The company has invested a double-digit million amount to set up the motor production facility. Tubing the various coil windings.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Schematic of the ocean-wave-driven electrochemical CO 2 RR system for liquid fuel production. The team optimized the charging process of the supercapacitor and the operation potential of the electrochemical cells to more effectively utilize the energy harvested from the nanogenerator and maximize the production of formic acid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2022

Shell’s final investment decision to build the Holland Hydrogen I is expected in 2022, after which the intended start of production will be in 2024. Green hydrogen will be produced for industry and the transport sector, with electricity coming from offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (Noord), by means of guarantees of origin.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

In Denmark, Air Liquide inaugurated HyBalance, a pilot site for the production of carbon-free hydrogen. MW, enables the production of around 500 kg of hydrogen a day without releasing CO 2. The electrolyzer, with a capacity of 1.2 The HyBalance project.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2023

Back in December, Tesla confirmed that its energy business had completed over half a million installations of solar panels and Solar Roof systems. To help ramp its Solar Roof installations, Tesla needs people to install them. The Tesla Solar Roof is the company’s flagship residential solar product.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

An old wind farm in Texas just got a second life, and its capacity has gone from 160 megawatts (MW) to 182 MW. An old Texas wind farm gets a second wind The Brazos Wind Farm is in Fluvanna, in Borden and Scurry counties, in West Texas. But… thirty-eight wind turbines x 5 MW = 180 MW. It sits on around 10,000 acres.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Photo: GE Renewable Energy GE Vernova is abandoning plans to supersize its offshore wind turbines and will instead focus on rolling out smaller “workhorse” turbines. We believe the future of our offshore wind business will be the Haliade-X 15.5 MW-250, a workhorse product. Get started here. –ad*

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the world’s first floating wind farm: The Hywind pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The wind farm will power around 20,000 households. Production start is expected in late 2017. Statoil is proud to develop the world’s first floating wind farm.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2021

Schaeffler has secured a volume production order to supply electric motors to a key manufacturer in the commercial vehicle sector, starting in 2023. It also features wave winding technology, an innovation that makes installation less complex and increases power density. The start of production is scheduled for 2024.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These include the compact design of the drives, power electronics, and a resource-saving use of materials, which also makes the production of the drives more sustainable. The new generation of ZF e-drives will be available on the market as a complete system starting in 2025; ZF will bring individual components into series production earlier.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

announced an agreement with Juhl Wind , Inc. to develop, install, and operate two utility-scale wind turbines (each rated at about 2MW) to generate electricity for the plant’s operations. The two wind turbines will supply up to approximately 10% of the plant’s electricity. Honda Transmission Mfg. of America, Inc.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Photo: WindFloat Atlantic WindFloat Atlantic – the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm – has now been online for three years and continues to break its own power output records. The offshore wind farm sits 20 km off the coast of Portugal in the municipality of Viana do Castelo, north of Porto. A 20 km long (12.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2018

BP Wind Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Rolling Thunder I Power Partners LLC, has signed a purchase agreement to install a high-storage battery at its Titan 1 Wind Farm in South Dakota. Situated on 7,500 acres in Hand County, Titan 1 Wind Farm is wholly owned and operated by BP Wind Energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2021

After intensive tests on test benches and pilot installations at customers in 2022, Rolls-Royce will continuously market new mtu Series 500 and Series 4000 gas engines beginning in 2023 for use with up to 100 percent hydrogen, and on a design to order basis conversion kits to allow already installed gas engines in the field to run on 100% hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2023

The standardized 20 MW alkaline water electrolysis (AWE) modules—now called by the product name “scalum”—will enable an installed capacity of more than 700 MW. Green steel products are already in exceptionally high demand from the automotive industry, which will thus be able to reduce its carbon footprint so decisively.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

joined government leaders and partner Iberdrola, one of the world’s largest energy companies, to announce its plans for one of the world’s largest electrolyzer plants for the production of green hydrogen to be located in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. billion to achieve an annual production of 60,000 tn/year. Cummins Inc.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

ZF has opened its first zero-emission factory at the production site for power electronics in Klášterec in the Czech Republic, after a renovation period of just under a year and a half. In Klášterec, this was accomplished by installing 3,400 solar modules on the campus, meeting roughly 20% of the plant’s annual electricity requirements.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The initiative seeks to generate a total hydrogen capacity of 300MW by 2025, and to start the development of a 1GW production site. In September, Lhyfe inaugurated the world’s first industrial production site for renewable hydrogen in direct connection with a wind farm. Earlier post.).

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