The size of Washington State’s largest wind farm just got cut by 50%
Electrek
APRIL 18, 2024
Washington State's energy board cut the size of what would have been the state's largest wind farm in half yesterday – here's why.
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Electrek
APRIL 18, 2024
Washington State's energy board cut the size of what would have been the state's largest wind farm in half yesterday – here's why.
Baua Electric
APRIL 18, 2024
Washington State’s energy board cut the size of what would have been the state’s largest wind farm in half yesterday – here’s why. Wind farm controversy in Washington State The $1.7 billion, 1,150-megawatt (MW) Horse Heaven Clean Energy Center combines wind, solar, and battery storage.
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. This consortium brings together leading experts to research how to enable inverter-based resources to help shape a reliable grid for today and tomorrow.
Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2023
These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. 50 Washington 18.8 Nuclear 0 0 Wind 2.5 On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Natural gas 87.9
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.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 8, 2020
Building on the UK’s leading electronics research, the resulting electric drive system exceeded the latest permanent magnet motor performance while simultaneously removing the need for both rare-earth magnets and copper windings, delivering a package both cost effective and recyclable at its end of life.
Green Car Congress
JULY 20, 2010
At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
The report examined grid conditions in the Northwest Power Pool, which covers Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming; many of them home to abundant wind resources and wind energy projects. This research was funded by the Department of Energy.
CleanTechnica EVs
MARCH 18, 2024
The eleventh United States–European Union (EU) Energy Council (“Council”) met [on Friday] in Washington, chaired by U.S. The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States of America and European Union. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David M.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2021
This is enough fuel to power nearly 12,000 Class 8 trucks for one year, delivering the same climate benefits as building nearly 430 wind turbines or planting more than 2.4 Neste has supplied approximately 220 million gallons of Neste MY Renewable Diesel into California through the NuStar Selby Terminal over the last decade. million trees.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2009
Following several months refurbishing a special NASA test rig, GE Aviation and NASA this summer will begin a wind-tunnel test program to evaluate counter-rotating fan-blade systems for open rotor jet engine designs. The first wind-tunnel tests this summer will essentially reenact those 1980s tests. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
MAY 20, 2013
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have identified two compressed air energy storage methods for the temporary storage of the Northwest’s excess wind power and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 25, 2020
New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. Past attempts to measure this effect from ships had focused on places where the wind blows across the shipping lane, in order to compare the “clean” area upwind with the “polluted” area downstream.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2013
A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations. mmBtu and $8.43/mmBtu. Source: Hurlbut et al.
Green Car Congress
MAY 29, 2014
Inset shows wind direction. The maximum PN concentrations were aligned to eastern, downwind jet trajectories during prevailing westerly winds and to 8 km downwind concentrations exceeded 75,000 particles/cm 3 —more than the average freeway PN concentration in Los Angeles. Spatial pattern of PN concentration. Click to enlarge.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
For instance, four proposed high-voltage lines totaling 600 kilometers along the seam of regional networks in the upper Midwest could connect at least 28 gigawatts of wind and solar. Proposed new transmission lines in the upper Midwest could connect at least 28 gigawatts of wind and solar to regional networks.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2019
Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.) CalCEF/Nexus (Oakland, California) is forming a Qualified Clean Energy Opportunity Zone Fund to deploy solar, wind, energy storage and other clean economy assets. is using pay-as-you-save financing to help transportation companies switch to electric buses.
Green Car Congress
JULY 10, 2019
Johnson Matthey, Billingham, UK Enabling Autonomous Wind Plants through Consensus Control, $250,000 RES Group, Broomfield, Colo. Solar Energy Industries Association, Washington, D.C. The Solar Foundation, Washington, D.C. Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor for Refrigerant Leak Detection, $375,000 Parker and Hannifin, Washington, Mo.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. But wind turbines convert wind to power at the wind speed cubed.
Cars That Think
APRIL 21, 2022
Sebastian Gollnow/Getty Images Blowin' in the Wind. University of Washington has designed tiny sensors that mimic the shape and aerodynamic capability of the dandelion’s fuzzy, seed-bearing spores. Mark Stone/University of Washington AI on the Fusion Menu. Hooray for robot labor! A team of researchers at the.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 2, 2009
Puget Sound Energy (PSE) will work closely with Nissan and ECOtality as a member of The Electric Vehicle (EV) Project in western Washington state. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2015
When we look at ways to efficiently store energy from wind and solar sources, lithium-based batteries are expensive and world-wide geological resources of lithium are actually quite limited. A team led by Yan Yao at the University of Houston will create a new cathode for the battery.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 2, 2012
First developed in the 1970s, redox flow batteries are one type of storage technology that has shown the ability to meet the challenge of integrating energy from variable and intermittent sources such as wind and solar power onto the electricity grid while maintaining grid stability. UniEnergy Technologies, Inc.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Parametrix (Auburn, Washington) will apply advanced probabilistic statistical methods to integrate oceanographic, ecological, human use data, stakeholder input, and cumulative impacts for the purpose of evaluating ocean renewable energy siting proposals. Approximate award amount: $745,000 (over two years); Funding agencies: BOEMRE, DOE, NOAA.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 11, 2017
A team at the University of Washington in St Louis has now measured simultaneous real-time particulate matter (particle numbers, lung-deposited surface area, PM 2.5 , particle number size distributions) and CO concentrations outside and in-cabin of an on-road car during regular commutes to and from work. Earlier post.). —Anna Leavey.
Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2014
A production line for carbon fiber takes the PAN precursor through two stages (stabilization/oxidation and carbonization) and then to winding. Accordingly, decisive factors for the set up of the carbon fiber plant in Moses Lake included the availability of renewable hydropower as well as competitive energy costs in Washington State.
Plug in America
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
That’s what Secretary Pete Buttigieg told me last month when I met him at our Washington D.C. Department of Transportation in Washington D.C. The event was intended to keep the pressure on Congress to keep the EV funding in the budget reconciliation and infrastructure bills as they wind their way through the legislative process.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory will expand its open-source Wind Energy with Integrated Servo- control (WEIS) toolbox to include control co-design capabilities of tidal and riverine hydrokinetic turbines. University of Washington. The 11 SHARKS projects are: National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2013
Hydro-electric, wind and solar power are used to power the CFRP production facilities in Moses Lake, Washington and the Leipzig, Germany assembly line. From a public fast-charging station, it will provide an 80% charge from a fully depleted battery in just 20 minutes.
Green Car Congress
JULY 19, 2017
Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht have demonstrated the first facile high-yield, low-energy synthesis of macroscopic length carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—carbon nanotube wool—from CO 2 using molten carbonate electrolysis ( earlier post ).
Green Car Congress
JULY 23, 2018
Poles, wires, and substation transformers are being upgraded with advanced materials and new technology to better withstand extreme weather events, to allow easier frequency and voltage control during system emergencies, and to accommodate greater use of variable renewable generation (customer-sited wind and solar).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 28, 2011
GE developed the common core system on the Wind River VxWorks 653 partitioned operating environment. Wind River is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intel, but the GE CCS uses a Freescale platform. Wind River is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intel, but the GE CCS uses a Freescale platform.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
The study, which was funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Electric Power Research Institute, the Heinz Endowment, the National Science Foundation, and Toyota Motor Corporation, also examined a hypothetical case with increased wind power.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2009
Natural gas will represent around half of Shell’s total production by 2012, said Shell CEO Peter Voser in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC on 8 October. We also offer gasification technology that would enable a cleaner use of coal and more effective application of CO 2 capture technology; and we produce wind power.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Testing showed that the system was able to successfully estimate the attitude of the drone and also detect and reject disturbances from wind. Figuring out whether it all actually works in practice isn’t easy, since chonky robotic gnats don’t exist, so the researchers instead used a palm-sized drone running simulated sensors.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 14, 2017
The study, from the University of Washington, the University of California Santa Barbara and federal scientists, is published in Nature Climate Change. The model shows that a shift in wind patterns is responsible for about 60% of sea ice loss in the Arctic Ocean since 1979. —second author Axel Schweiger.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 3, 2009
Summers in the Arctic may be nearly ice-free in as few as 30 years or even earlier, not at the end of the century as previously expected, according to a new study by a pair of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Washington. Credit: University of Washington / NOAA.
Blink Charging
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
If an EV is charged with electricity that is generated from renewable sources (such as solar, wind, geothermal, or hydroelectric), then there are no fossil fuel emissions associated with that charging or driving process.
Blink Charging
APRIL 21, 2022
According to Forbes , studies have found that solar and wind power is often cheaper than power from fossil fuels, even without financial assistance, and their daily operations undercut even the most cost-effective coal plants. It uses the power of wind pushing turbines to collect energy.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 6, 2009
” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd. That is a stubborn fact that vexes some in the environmental community, but it is reality.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 27, 2017
Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Bottom: C2CNT Cement wind plant: The full oxy-fuel configuration is shown.
Electric Auto Association
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
I’m a bit more pragmatic—the political headwinds have subsided, but that isn’t the same thing as a tail wind. If your elected officials are uncommitted about EVs, Bob Erdman of EAA’s Greater Washington DC chapter helped pull together a fact sheet and white paper that is a perfect segue for reticent lawmakers.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2014
The greatest hydropower potential was found in western US states, including Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. A new assessment conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has identified more than 65 gigawatts of untapped hydropower potential in US rivers and streams.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2010
With ultimate research targets ranging from off-shore wind power and coral reef ecology to electrochemical energy storage, quantum physics and nanotechnology, the 12 projects will launch more than $250 million in new laboratory construction projects beginning early this year. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)
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