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Volkswagen’s Elli and Elia Group partner to integrate EVs into the grid

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The Group ensures that production and consumption are balanced, supplying 30 million end users with electricity. Through its subsidiaries in Belgium (Elia) and the north and east of Germany (50Hertz), the company operates 19,192 km of high-voltage connections.

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Tesla lands $87 million Megapack project in Belgium

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Tesla is set to provide its Megapack grid-scale batteries for a new energy storage project in Belgium, coming as the latest of many storage facilities popping up around the world. Check out the Teslarati Marketplace: [link] [link] [link] The post Tesla lands $87 million Megapack project in Belgium appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Pike Research ranks ChargePoint, DBT as top EV charging equipment supply companies

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The new Pike Pulse Grid for EVSE manufacturers. Pike Research forecasts that global sales of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37% between 2012 and 2020 as the global market for plug-in vehicles (PEVs) grows, rising from less than 200,000 units sold in 2012 to almost 2.4

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Volvo Energy invests $4.9M in Connected Energy for second-life battery business; 10% stake

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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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BASF breaks ground on syngas plant at Zhanjiang Verbund site in China

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Electricity will be supplied by the site-wide grid which is expected to be powered with 100 % renewable energy by 2025. It will be operated under the sole responsibility of BASF and will be the company’s third-largest Verbund site worldwide, following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium.

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Audi of America and Arcadia offer renewable energy subscription with e-tron or e-tron Sportback lease or purchase

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The program runs from 2 March to 30 April 2021, while supplies last. These customers are allocated a portion of the energy output from their community solar projects and earn credits on their power bills as the projects generate power and add renewable energy to their local grid.

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This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply

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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.