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has partnered with The Mobility House to deploy smart charging strategy and management solutions for the district’s zero-emission fleet project, which is now operational and scheduled to transport students to schools throughout the district. Stockton Unified School District in Stockton, Calif.,
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independent from the bulk powergrid (i.e., SPIDERS uses the conceptual designs of an Energy Surety Microgrid developed by Sandia National Laboratories, and has four specific goals for electric power surety at US military installations: To protect critical. infrastructure from power loss. Harbor/Hickam, Hawaii; Fort.
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The report, Bucks for balancing: can plug-in vehicles of the future extract cash—and carbon—from the powergrid? , is based on a research collaboration between a team of engineers from Ricardo and National Grid, the operator of the high voltage electricity transmission system within Great Britain (GB).
and Daimler AG have invested in The Mobility House AG —a leading Germany-based provider of EV charging solutions and operator of stationary energy storage systems built with EV batteries. The V2G technology allows integration of EVs into the powergrid as an aggregated swarm energy storage. Mitsui & Co.,
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million grant to the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to lead development of an advanced management platform for integrating electric vehicle (EV) charging with utility-scale energy systems. Once the DCH platform is developed, it will be tested in a demonstration fleet of EVs at UC San Diego.
Better Place and China Southern PowerGrid Co. It also calls for the city to promote electric-car adoption in fleet segments including public-sector vehicles and private-sector fleets such as taxis. CSG is the world’s eighth-largest utility, according to the Fortune Global 500.
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