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Solar and Battery Companies Rattle Utility Powerhouses

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Over the last five to 10 years we have seen an uptick in new entrants providing retail energy services," says Albert Cheung, head of global analysis at BloombergNEF. "It And more broadly speaking, the notion of what is and isn't a utility is in flux. That would be something to reckon with.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Here at Charged , we’ve been covering the commercial EV market for a decade. When Charged first spoke with him in 2021, he was the Charging Infrastructure Lead at Daimler Trucks North America, and also the Chair of CharIN’s Megawatt Charging System (MCS) task force. It’s called Electric Island. It won’t work.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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Discharge mode is shown; the arrows are reversed for electrolytic/charge mode. Furthermore, this electrode permits higher charging voltages by suppressing the parasitic water-splitting reactions. A safe and economical flow battery could play a huge role in our transition off fossil fuels to renewable electricity. Cell schematic.

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Mad Power thoughts

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It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. This was plain wrong. Gas is the only answer.

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