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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Purveyors of EVs would have a new public-policy rationale backing up their market. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately. Grid-stabilization functions were reborn as “ancillary services.”

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ABB and Fincantieri to Collaborate on Shore Power Systems

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ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, and Fincantieri, the Italian merchant and naval shipbuilder, have signed an agreement to collaborate on the construction, marketing and supply of high-voltage shore connection (HVSC) systems to provide electricity to vessels in port. Diagram of HVSC system. Click to enlarge.

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Calif. Energy Commission to award more than $44M for hydrogen refueling and alternative fuel vehicle projects

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Further promoting this market is the recent establishment of a new federal Energy Department public-private partnership effort called H2USA, which includes Toyota, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz and Honda. Studies suggest that 68 stations are needed by 2017 to support the market. million ZEV vehicles on the roadways by 2025. Earlier post.).

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California).

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

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And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. February 15, 2010.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. automobile market. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: Development of a Low. California Los Angeles, Ford Motor Company). power grid. technology will enhance grid operations through improved. The team will.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Raising money to bring a PHEV to market. But we have nothing to announce in terms of any kind of market place." Batteries not ready.

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