Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2023

The Sparc Green Hydrogen process combines concentrated solar (CS) with photocatalytic water splitting. The company’s key development allows for reduced photocatalyst use and integration with existing concentrated solar systems. The facility is home to Australia’s largest solar thermal research hub.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

A cheaper, cleaner and more sustainable way of making hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight is closer with new research from the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. Most solar cells currently on the market are made of silicon; these are expensive to make and require a lot of very pure silicon to manufacture.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

Solid-oxide-fuel-cell manufacturer Bloom Energy is entering the commercial hydrogen market by introducing hydrogen-powered fuel cells and electrolyzers that produce renewable hydrogen. The Bloom Energy Servers are a proven market leader in clean, reliable, and resilient on-site power. —Jason Ahn, CEO of SK E&C.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2023

A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators have developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2023

A team from Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar has comprehensively reviewed various ammonia decomposition techniques to produce clean hydrogen by recovering the boil-off ammonia while integrating solar energy infrastructures onboard a ship for electricity and heat requirements. The review paper is published in the journal Fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories, co-leads of the Heliostat Consortium , announced seven awardees from a request for proposals (RFP) aimed at achieving DOE’s goals for heliostat cost reduction, sustained multifaceted innovation, and improved solar field performance.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

Dozens of solar farms in the country’s southeastern region are slated to use “ hydrogen batteries ” in coming years. Operators can use the systems to store energy from solar panels and deliver power to the grid during cloudy days or at night. All together they’ll represent a 300-megawatt solar installation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

To further decarbonize the grid, DOE is also launching a $20-million university research consortium to help states and Tribal communities successfully implement grid resilience programs and achieve decarbonization goals. ( DE-FOA-0002792 ). Development and Validation of Sensor Technology for Monitoring and Measuring Hydrogen Losses.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Danish Minister for Transport Trine Bramsen, Aalborg municipal government representatives, and European media were invited to witness the first test runs of Geely methanol vehicles on Danish roads and visit the e-methanol production facility at Aalborg University.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2020

Researchers at the University of Michigan, McGill University and McMaster University have developed a binary copper?iron The work, presented in a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offers a unique, highly efficient, and inexpensive route for solar fuels synthesis. 1 under air mass 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2013

that uses aggregation software and solar charging canopies with integrated storage to manage the flow of solar power to benefit the electric grid. TimberRock will monitor the output of its solar charging stations, how much stored energy is available and when it can sell energy back to the grid to help meet peak demand.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

Spider9 , a cleantech company launched in 2011 at the University of Michigan, has finalized the license agreement for patented dynamic control systems and plans to launch its first commercial integration at the historic Henry Ford Valve Plant, known as the Water Wheel Center, in Northville, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2023

million to establish a new North American university research consortium that will help states and tribal communities implement grid resilience programs and achieve decarbonization goals. DOE also announced $17.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

Ultimately, the goal is to deliver a universally applicable mobility platform to handle a variety of payloads. The solar-powered, autonomous driving mobility unit will weigh around 70 kg.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2012

Balqon Corporation, a developer of heavy-duty electric vehicles, drive systems and lithium-ion battery storage devices, has installed a one MWh lithium-ion battery storage system at the University of California, Riverside (UCR); the system has gone operational, providing electric power to the Bourns College of Engineering building.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Researchers at the University of Melbourne (Australia) have demonstrated a method of direct hydrogen production from air— in situ capture of freshwater from the atmosphere using hygroscopic electrolyte and subsequent electrolysis powered by solar or wind with a current density up to 574 mA cm ?2.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

in close collaboration with GTI and The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a US Department of Energy project, Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond. Frontier Energy, Inc., The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

Conventional thermal decomposition production of lime (left) versus STEP direct solar conversion of calcium carbonate to calcium oxide (right). Conducive to our new solar process, electrolysis of molten carbonates forms oxides, which precipitate as calcium oxide when mixed with calcium carbonate. Click to enlarge. —Licht et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

Geothermal 0 0 Solar 0 8.8 Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Natural gas 87.9 Geothermal 16.5 Natural gas 4.1

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2022

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Northwestern University are collaborating to help accelerate new materials discovery, design and development with the world’s first nanomaterial “data factory.”. This groundbreaking research marks an inflection point in how we discover and develop critical materials.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0000772 ) for up to $20 million for the CSP [concentrating solar power] Heat Integration for Baseload Renewable Energy Development (CSP HIBRED) program to support advancement of the hybridization of CSP technologies with existing fossil fuel plants.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2023

A new study by researchers from the University of California, Riverside and colleagues in the US and Europe has now found that methane short-wave absorption counteracts ~30% of the surface warming associated with its long-wave radiative effects. . … However, greenhouse gases also absorb short-wave radiation incoming from the sun.

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Cars That Think

MAY 14, 2024

She has held marketing positions with major energy companies, and now she runs two startups. Simay Akar Employer AK Energy Consulting Title CEO Member grade Senior member Alma mater Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey “I love the industry and the people in this business,” Akar says.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

The consortium will collaborate with universities such as U of T, Ontario Tech and Waterloo to address some of their material development and technology improvement requirements and characterization. The global market for MEAs is projected to be $15 billion by 2025. Scalable Manufacturing Process for Solar Film Integrated Body Panels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Toyota Motor Corporation, and TRENDE Inc., The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Toyota Motor Corporation, and TRENDE Inc., This is the world’s first test for electricity trading between individuals that incorporates PHEVs as a distributed power supply, in addition to solar panels and secondary batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

million in funding over five years to support the development of advanced solar photovoltaic (PV)-related manufacturing processes throughout the United States. Through this award, SEMATECH will now apply similar ingenuity to helping the US recapture the lead in solar manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2020

The Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE) , led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, seeks to develop hybrid photoelectrodes for fuel production that combine semiconductors for light absorption with molecular catalysts for conversion and fuel production.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. The annual awards recognize the country’s leading green power users for their commitment and contribution to helping advance the development of the nation’s voluntary green power market. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The accelerator’s higher power provides more neutrons for researchers who use the facility to study and improve a wide range of materials for more efficient solar panels, longer lasting batteries and stronger, lighter materials for transportation. megawatts, which improves on the facility’s original design capability.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, E.ON electric utility company, battery manufacturers Exide and beta-motion and inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) have joined forces to build the first multi-technology, modular large-scale 5MW battery storage system. Batteries Power Generation Solar Wind'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

In recognition of the importance of teams in energy research, the EFRC program brings together researchers from multiple disciplines and institutions—including universities, national laboratories, industry, and nonprofit organizations—and combines them into synergistic, highly productive teams.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2022

Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a photo-chemo-enzymatic multi-step combination pathway for the highly efficient and environmentally friendly preparation of biogasoline from cheap and sustainable triolein using solar energy and atmospheric O 2 under mild conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Researchers in China led by a team from Fudan University have demonstrated the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 toward C 2+ alcohols with a faradaic efficiency of ~70% using copper (Cu) catalysts with stepped sites. C 2+ alcohols are desirable due to their high energy densities and large global market capacities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In addition to EPRI, NREL, and the University of Washington, the UNIFI consortium currently includes: Three DOE national laboratories. —Daniel Brooks, vice president of integrated grid and energy systems at EPRI.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2022

With its headquarters in Newcastle upon Tyne, Technical Center in Norfolk and systems operational in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Netherlands, Connected Energy has sixteen operational systems across Europe: Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK with its largest at Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, England.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 27, 2024

Hochul said the project would account for an investment of $500 million, and it will also come alongside a separate artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer being built at the State University of New York (SUNY). trillion in just a few years.

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