Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2014

At Toyota’s Burnaston car manufacturing plant in Derbyshire, the aim is to create a green grid, demonstrating how a working industrial site can successfully support biodiversity through environmental land management and secure a green legacy for the future, without compromising the cost or efficiency of its core business.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2024

To Nick de Vries, chief technology officer at the solar-energy developer Silicon Ranch , a transformer is like an interstate on-ramp: It boosts the voltage of the electricity that his solar plants generate to match the voltage of grid transmission lines. Their very durability shoulders the grid. The company isnt alone in its quandary.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2009

The Katholieke High School of Limburg, Belgium (KHLim) will deploy ChargePoint Networked Charging stations as part of the first European Clean Mobility Center in Belgium. KHLim also has its own energy grid to which the ChargePoint charging stations are connected.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Operators recently turned on what is now Belgium’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS), as backed by Tesla’s Megapack grid-scale batteries. The Ville-sur-Haine BESS project in Wallonia, Belgium became operational over the weekend, as supported by 53 Tesla Megapacks for 50MW/200 MWh of capacity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In recent months Fastned invested in new grid connections and the purchase of faster chargers with a charging power of up to 350 kW. These will be installed before the end of the year and allow EV drivers to charge up to 100 times faster than at home. Fastned has grown at a rate of around 10% month-on-month in the past few years.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2025

Heres how it works: SOLRITE installs solar panels and sonnen batteries at eligible customer households with no upfront cost. The VPP supports the Texas grid, reducing reliance on polluting power plants during times of high demand. Blake Richetta, chairman and CEO of sonnen Inc.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2025

Heres how it works: SOLRITE installs solar panels and sonnen batteries at eligible customer households with no upfront cost. The VPP supports the Texas grid, reducing reliance on polluting power plants during times of high demand. Blake Richetta, chairman and CEO of sonnen Inc.

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Driivz

MAY 1, 2022

Vehicle to Grid (V2G) is one approach being taken, where stored energy from the electric vehicles is used to power the grid during peak hours, and then the vehicles are recharged during non-peak times. In fact, EDF is targeting a 30 percent market share for EV charging in France, Belgium, Italy, and the UK.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Tesla Megapacks have come online at an energy storage facility in the Netherlands, offering the country’s first four-hour, grid-scale battery system. The release also notes that this is the first Netherlands deployment of the four-hour battery system, expected to help improve both grid stability and costs for consumers.

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