Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The Colorado School of Mines, in partnership with Global Algae Innovations, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Colorado State University, will improve the productivity of robust wild algal strains using advanced directed evolution approaches in combination with high-performance, custom-built, solar simulation bioreactors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., Flexible perovskite-perovskite PV for mobile power applications, $745,500 Swift Solar, Redwood City, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. Solar Energy Industries Association, Washington, D.C. Tempe, Ariz.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

The US Department of Energy announced $75 million in funding to renew the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis ( JCAP ), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub originally established in 2010 with the goal of harnessing solar energy for the production of fuel. Earlier post.). Molecular Catalysis. High-Throughput Experimentation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts. Mueller, N.D.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The goal of the Hub is then to develop an integrated solar energy-to-chemical fuel conversion system and move this system from the bench-top discovery phase to a scale where it can be commercialized. Tags: Biotech Fuels Solar. The Energy Innovation Hubs have enormous potential to advance transformative breakthroughs. Lewis, George L.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2013

million contract by the California Energy Commission’s Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec’s CPV system located on the campus of University of California, San Diego, and a second commercial scale system at Soitec’s solar power plant in Southern California.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The annual production rate of > 90 wt% ethanol using such a photosynthesis system operating at 10 mA cm -2 (12% solar-to-fuel (STF) efficiency) can be 15.27 The program’s first phase focused on solar H 2 generation, which was completed in September 2015. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Singh and Alexis T. Singh, Ezra L. 1519212112.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. The thirteen award selections announced today fall into two areas: Concentrating Solar Power Systems Studies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Hamid Mohsenian-Rad of University of California, Riverside will receive $95,000 to determine the optimum balance of active and reactive power in plug-in electric vehicles to achieve lower energy costs and improve power distribution networks. The project has the potential to increase solar power storage capacity and reduce electricity costs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

This project includes $150,000 in match funding from San Diego Gas & Electric. Other projects receiving funding include: Foresight Renewable Solutions of San Francisco will receive $1.7 University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

For the field test, researchers will deploy aged EV batteries at the University of California (UC), San Diego’s campus-wide electric power grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

This two-way data exchange will create a means to use EV batteries to help manage variable grid conditions, generation oversupply and other challenges associated with the state’s goals to decarbonize its electricity sector with renewable energy resources such as solar and wind.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

They can be generated from fossil natural gas or bio-gas or through a power-to-liquids process that uses renewable sources such as solar or wind power together with CO 2 captured from the air. The DME-powered engines are expected to benefit from almost soot-free combustion, higher thermal efficiency and excellent cold start properties.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

This system can enable energy produced from solar panels to be used more efficiently. BMW i has worked with universities, national laboratories, utilities and industry partners to maximize residential energy efficiency. This approach minimizes energy waste, effectively reducing energy costs on a day-to-day basis.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 1, 2023

Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering. Erb was an advisor to this team from the University of Idaho, finishing in first place with this Camaro EV conversion. Last summer, he drove his Tesla cross country to San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. model home in San Marcos, Calif., Direct solar PV-to-vehicle charging. American Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

Particulate pollution thought to be holding climate change in check by reflecting sunlight instead enhances warming when combined with airborne soot, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego. Soot, also called black carbon, absorbs solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2013

The 3-year-study, titled “Black Carbon and Regional Climate of California,” was conducted by UC San Diego and the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). 2012) Solar absorption by elemental and brown carbon determined from spectral observations.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

In addition, in December 2013, Honda supplied an Accord Plug-In Hybrid with a bi-directional on-board charger to the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Smart charging Smart Grid Standards V2X'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2013

degrees Fahrenheit), according to the research by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; Florida State University; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Temperatures in some remote areas increase by as much as 1 degree Celsius (1.8 —Guang Zhang.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

nLiten Energy Corporation of Mountain View will receive $95,000 to prove the feasibility of growing thin-film three-dimensional solar cells using self-assembled nanowires onto a low-cost substrate. This technology would increase efficiency and lower production costs.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K. The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND) will complete an initial engineering design for a hybrid capture system and estimate associated costs for retrofitting the Red Trail Energy ethanol plant. DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $405,328; Total: $1,905,328.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. The open ocean is an immense untapped region for collecting solar energy. The kelp will be processed into biocrude and further to hydrocarbons ready for commercial refineries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2009

a positive feedback), according to a new study of the NE Pacific by researchers from the University of Miami and UC San Diego. conclude that a change in solar heating of the ocean due to a change in stratocumulus cloud cover is the principal factor maintaining decadal SST anomalies in the NE Pacific.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. Tour Engine, Inc. ,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Nuvve Corporation, a San Diego-based vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology company, is participating in a program to deliver resource adequacy to local utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and California’s electrical grid using a large stationary battery located on the University of California San Diego’s (UC San Diego’s) campus microgrid.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

I think we have 22 or 24 buses in the San Diego area, and we have another deployment underway in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where we are initially deploying 24 as well. Gregory Poilasne: We have an AC charging station that we rolled out that came from our relationship with the University of Delaware.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

So buckle up and hang on while I take you for a little trip with the Greenius to the places I’ve been and the places I’m going… My First Solar PV Install. As regular Creative Greenius readers have learned, GRID Alternatives is a nonprofit organization that installs solar panels on low-income housing in California.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Electric vehicles have the potential to benefit the grid by using their batteries to help manage electricity loads throughout the day—a growing concern as renewable solar and wind energy continue to grow in California. Greater attention to vehicle and electric grid integration will be needed as well.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 31, 2009

Our group was an interesting and friendly mix of unemployed construction workers looking for new careers; electricians, iron workers and other licensed contractors looking to expand into solar installation; and three or four guys who were there to learn how to do a self install of solar for their home, shop or cabin.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 University of Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

Following a pilot program at University of California San Diego (UCSD), this second-life battery system has been unveiled at an operational EVgo fast charging station located in Union City, CA at 3960 Smith Street.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2012

million contract to develop a high-efficiency supercritical CO 2 hot gas turbo-expander for concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. SwRI and industry collaborators Solar Turbines Inc., The first is an $8.5-million The second is a $3.8-million million contract to develop a novel gas turbine combustor for a CSP hybrid gas turbine system.

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