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Tesla’s solar neighborhood in Austin could help TX learn if renewables are viable

Teslarati

The project aims to build the first Tesla Solar neighborhood, making a sustainable residential community. The Tesla Solar neighborhood was provisionally named SunHouse at Easton Park. The solar and home battery units are integrated into the homes’ sale price as well, much like state-of-the-art appliances.

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Solar-powered streetlights could bring curbside charging to city neighborhoods

Baua Electric

A California-based company aims to add curbside EV charging and solar and wind power to streetlights. Beam Global’s BeamSpot incorporates solar panels and small wind turbines to generate some of its own energy, with built-in battery storage to maximize use of it. Battery capacity is 15 kwh.

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5G & Microgrids Might Be a Great Match

CleanTechnica EVs

Solar panels on a roof are like 5G towers in a neighborhood—in both. NREL Explores Setup and Security of 5G for Microgrids With a 5G Sandbox Whether it is coincidence or careful planning, the infrastructures of both power systems and telecommunications are heading in a similar direction: toward the edge.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. These initiatives have largely focused on renewable electric power generation, distribution, and storage. Eronen says, laughing.

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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

Green Car Congress

Gil Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory outlined his vision of a critical solution to the energy, climate and ensuing national security threats facing the US: the Net-Zero Neighborhood (NZN). Actually delivering commercially viable 500-mile batteries will require exascale computing—i.e., NZN Needs the Exa Era.

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EV charger network doubles under Biden-Harris, $521M in new grants fuel expansion

Baua Electric

The focus is on areas that currently lack EV infrastructure, particularly in low-to-moderate-income neighborhoods and communities with high concentrations of multifamily housing. On the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, the Standing Rock Renewable Energy Power Authority will receive nearly $3.9 Get started here.

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Beam Global launches BeamSpot curbside EV charging product line – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Curbside charging is emerging as the solution to the problem of charging EVs in dense urban neighborhoods. Enter Beam Global , which has seen a lot of success with its solar-powered off-grid EV charging solution. And because BeamSpot generates and stores renewable energy it will add robust capacity and reduce the threat from blackouts.”

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