Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Not only will electric vehicles with bidirectional charging capability be able to draw electrical power for their high-voltage battery when plugged into a compatible charging station or wallbox, they will also have the ability to reverse the process and feed energy back into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

MyEnergi Lifestyle, a Ford Motor Company collaboration with Eaton, Infineon, SunPower and Whirlpool, retrofitted the homes of two families with energy-efficient appliances and solar panels, as well as providing the families with their own Ford C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

The e-gas project consists of two main components: Audi is contributing to the construction of offshore North Sea wind turbines which will generate clean power,that is then fed into the public power grid. Audi wants to use green power to produce and also operate its electric-drive e-tron models in the future.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Short-term transients, including those related to wind and solar sources, present challenges to the electrical grid. Stationary energy storage systems that can operate for many cycles, at high power, with high round-trip energy efficiency, and at low cost are required. C, two-thirds of its maximum discharge capacity is observed.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With battery storage able to provide a unique role in balancing a renewable electricity grid, Toby Gill, CEO of Intelligent Power Generation, asks could innovations in green hydrogen and biofuel technologies contribute to a more optimized and economical energy mix? What are the mechanisms we need to balance a renewable grid?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2022

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) focused on the development of long-term supply of low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power in steel production, helping accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition. thyssenkrupp Steel accounts for 2.5%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has installed a Smart Mobility Park electric mobility charging station at Toyota Ecoful Town, its low-carbon society model district located in Toyota City. Energy Management and Power Generation, Storage and Supply. Chargers single phase AC 200 V, 50 Hz/60 Hz, 15 A. Earlier post.). Smart Mobility station.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

At Consumer Electronics Show Asia, Ford launched a strategic collaboration with Haier (home appliance), Trina Solar (solar power) and Delta Electronics (power management) to introduce MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) to China, a holistic approach for lowering the energy costs and carbon footprint of Chinese families.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

The purpose of the HySynergy project is to establish phase I of large-scale production and storage of green hydrogen that will support the reduction of the carbon footprint within the existing Shell Fredericia refinery processes as well as establish a competitive supply of green hydrogen as zero emission fuel for heavy-duty transportation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Under the terms of the LOI, Mantra and KC Cottrell will enter into a strategic alliance to engineer, build, test, and deploy a 100 kg-per day Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide (ERC) reactor. (KC Cottrell), a global leader in air pollution control based out of Seoul, Korea.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

TEPCO believes SMUD, with its ambitious zero carbon target by 2030 and innovative experience in leading green energy-efficiency and distributed energy resources activities, such as solar plus storage, is the ideal partner for significant real-world vehicle-to-everything collaboration.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

and ABB’s Power Grids business are partnering to expand the rollout of silicon carbide in the rapidly-growing high-power semiconductor market. Cree’s products will be included as part of ABB’s power semiconductor product portfolio, across power grids, train and traction, industrial and e-mobility sectors.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2011

The project goal is to verify the use of advanced technologies in a smart grid under the use of large volumes of renewable energy already in place, to contribute to smart grid standards, and to implement a low-carbon social infrastructure system that efficiently uses renewable energy on a remote island where electricity costs are relatively high.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The projects will center on solar and battery technologies; plasma physics; Arctic sea-ice modeling; and the impact of carbon dioxide absorption on the world’s oceans. ExxonMobil and Princeton University announced the selection of five research projects associated with their partnership focused on energy technologies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

To provide 50%—or more—of power from clean energy sources, power grids will have to be able to leverage distributed energy sources, and reliably manage dynamic changes, while minimizing impact on customer quality of service. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is a member of a team that was recently awarded a $7-million contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to demonstrate integration of electric vehicles, generators and solar arrays to supply emergency power for Fort Carson, Colo. Demonstration (JCTD) called the Smart Power Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2011

The Zero-Waste-to-Landfill goal was initiated by Daimler AG to reduce the carbon footprint of manufacturing facilities under the Daimler umbrella. Through a 25-year contract, Thomas Built is providing the land to support 1,690 solar panels, owned and operated by Duke Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

Toyota City, which has set out to assume the role of serving as a model for an environmental city, has adopted an action plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 30% by 2020, compared to 1990, as part of an initiative to make it a low-carbon city.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

million (US$19 million) in research funding for 28 projects in four key areas of sustainable development: Carbon Capture and Utilization; BioEnergy and BioFuels; Sustainable Construction; and Sustainable Materials. Carbon Capture and Utilization. Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has awarded S$27.5

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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

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Tesla nickel supplier BHP announced that construction on one of the world’s largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems has started. TransAlta, a clean energy provider in Canada, the United States, and Australia, will help power BHP’s Nickel West assets, specifically its Mt. MW solar farm at Mt.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The organic material in the waste produces power and treated water, transforming wastewater treatment from an energy-intensive, cost-intensive and carbon-intensive process, into an energy-generating and carbon-reducing process. SolarEdge is based in Hod Hasharon, Israel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. Stanford University. The Ohio State University. Columbia University.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2024, technologies to combat climate change soared above the clouds in electricity-generating kites, traveled the oceans sequestering carbon, and permeated the earth to power agritech in a new way. EMPs can destroy electronic systems and overload power grids, causing blackouts. If these dont ring a bell, fret not!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

Smart infrastructure ESG and SDG initiatives will provide tangible health benefits with cleaner air and healthier climates as a result of the mass electrification of power grids derived from renewable energy resources like solar, thermal, water, and wind to fuel limitless fleets of electric vehicles producing zero or low carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

The conversion of renewable electricity to hydrogen enables long-term storage of large amounts of carbon-free power. UCI engineers and graduate students have been working to determine how beneficial the technology might be and its feasibility for statewide or regional power grids.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 30, 2009

April 14, 2009 GRID Alternative solar install for Habitat for Humanity. That’s your Creative Greenius in the orange hardhat, and my buddy the Reverend Ron giving the Hang Loose salute, atop the roof of a Habitat for Humanity home we successfully installed a Solar PV system on. From left, Asm.

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Teslarati

MAY 30, 2023

Solar Systems, its distribution arm in the United States. Since Powerwalls allow homeowners to store energy that can later be used during times when the sun is not shining or when the power grid is down, the batteries have become popular. Solar Systems, LLC , is optimistic about the collaboration with Tesla.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

Grid energy storage will be needed to enable the widespread use of two key renewable energy sources: wind and solar power. Ultimately, technologies developed through this program will be scalable to the gigawatt and gigawatt-hour levels of power and energy capacity.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

The IEEE Life Fellow spoke during a session addressing the role of technology in delivering an equitable, sustainable, and low-carbon resilient world. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. “We

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant. Electricity generation from variable renewable electricity sources (VRE) such as wind and solar power has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to do so.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In Europe, the Paris Agreement adopted in 2015 has resulted in the acceleration of initiatives to facilitate a low-carbon society, including the aggressive promotion of environmentally-friendly policies aimed at achieving renewable targets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. Kairos Power (Alameda, California). First Solar Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

US data centers are projected to consume an estimated 140 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year by 2020, equivalent to the annual output of about 50 power plants, emitting nearly 100 million metric tons of carbon pollution per year, according to a study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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