Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its 2023 Critical Materials Assessment (2023 CMA), which evaluated materials for their criticality to global clean energy technology supply chains. The Assessment focuses on key materials with high risk of supply disruption that are integral to clean energy technologies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

With Highview Power’s liquid air energy storage solution, excess or off-peak electricity is used to clean and compress air which is then stored in liquid form in insulated tanks at temperatures approaching -320 ?F

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2023

Source: California Energy Commission The latest data from the California Energy Commission (CEC) shows that in 2021 more than 37% of the state’s electricity came from Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS)-eligible sources such as solar and wind, an increase of 2.7% compared to 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2014

China Wanxiang Holding announced the planned formation of a joint venture between its wholly-owned subsidiary, Puxing Energy, and NEC Corporation to pursue grid energy storage opportunities in the Chinese market. A123 Energy Solutions has commissioned two installations of its Grid Storage Solution (GSS) product line in China in recent months.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond intends to show that renewable hydrogen can be a cost-effective fuel for multiple end-use applications, including fuel cell electric vehicles, when coupled with large, baseload consumers that use hydrogen for clean, reliable stationary power. The project started on 1 July 2020 and will continue for three years.

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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. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost.

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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. If necessary, this energy can flow from the gas network back to the power grid at any time. Rated at 3.6

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Seeking to slash CO 2 emissions from its North American manufacturing operations, Honda has entered into long-term virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar power that will cover more than 60% of the electricity that Honda uses in North America. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 21, 2025

In my travels across the country, Ive seen massive wind farms in Wyoming, South Dakota, and Iowa, as well as huge wind farms and solar farms in southern California. However, living in Utah for 20 years and traveling north to south and east to west, the only grid-scale clean energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

EVgo has integrated second-life BMW i3 batteries to store energy from the grid generated during peak solar hours and later use that stored energy to fast-charge EVgo customers during periods of high demand. Reusing batteries as backup for charging is a win-win for the economics and the environmental benefits of EVs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Electrify America (EA), the largest open DC fast charging network in the US, is increasing access to sustainable electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure for rural Californians with the deployment of eight new solar-powered, off-grid charging stations across Fresno County. feet and can operate in the event of a blackout or power outage.

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Electrek

JULY 23, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Here are 3 ways clean energy is boosting grid resilience right now in the face of extreme weather. million in grants to support offshore wind workforce training. more… The post EGEB: 3 ways clean energy is making US grids more resilient right now appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

The power plant is connected to the Los Angeles power grid by an existing high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission line. In May of 2019, MHPS partnered with Magnum Development to announce plans to develop the Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES) project adjacent to IPP. and Hitachi, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. billion and $2.7

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The 178-page report finds that the goals of SB 100 can be achieved in different ways, but reaching them will require significant investments in new and existing technologies and an increased, sustained build-out of clean energy projects to bring new resources on-line. California’s electricity mix is already more than 60% carbon-free.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The energy storage installation, located at Invenergy’s Grand Ridge Wind project site in La Salle County, will supply clean, renewable power to the new frequency response market administered by regional transmission organization PJM. Efficient frequency regulation is essential for PJM’s grid reliability. Xtreme Power’s 1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The average cost of a Li-ion battery cell—used to power electric vehicles and to provide flexibility in the power grid as more renewables, such as solar and wind, are added will fall below $100 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in the next three years, according to a new analysis by IHS Markit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2020

HOMER Energy by UL, a global developer of energy modeling software, announced that HOMER Grid , software for designing grid-tied distributed energy projects, can now model how hybrid systems power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. HOMER Grid software addresses two types of charging scenarios when it simulates energy systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

The projects will enhance electric grid reliability and help address potential energy shortfalls identified in California. These projects will be located at the same point of interconnection and will be the first of their kind on California’s grid. Selected Bidder. Project Name.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Small Modular Reactors offer exciting opportunities to cut costs and build more quickly, ensuring we can bring clean electricity to people’s homes and cut our already-dwindling use of volatile fossil fuels even further. —UK Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

By splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, this technology delivers “green” hydrogen, a clean, CO 2 -free energy carrier. The only inputs needed are water and renewable electricity from wind, hydro power or photovoltaics. thyssenkrupp recently introduced industrial-scale water electrolysis for large projects. 20 MW module.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Further, according to Rystad Energy, Big Oil is expected to pump in $166B into new oil and gas ventures over the next five years, thus dwarfing the currently specified outlay of just $18B (less than 10% of capex) for solar and wind energy projects. Good case in point: Italian multinational oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A. 2 Total SA.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Energy Vault, a company developing grid-scale gravity energy storage solutions, has entered into an energy storage system agreement with DG Fuels, a developer of renewable hydrogen and biogenic-based, synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel fuel. Under the terms of the agreement, Energy Vault agreed to provide 1.6

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2025

Modern power grids cant run without transformers, which step voltages up and down for distribution from power plants to power stations and on to homes and businesses. Whats worse, the way we use the power grid is stressing transformers even more. As Andrew Moseman reports in Engineers Transform Transformers to Save the Power Grid [p.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

There, d elegations from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Hungary, and Romania finalized an ambitious plan: to generate up to 6 gigawatts of clean energy in the Caucasus region, run the electricity through a cable along the bottom of the Black Sea, and deliver it to Europe. The plant supplies up to 230 megawatts of power to Azerbaijans grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $150 million in clean energy tax credits to 12 businesses to build US capabilities in clean energy manufacturing; $98 million of that goes to five automakers and suppliers towards investments in domestic manufacturing equipment. Funded at $2.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Maintaining grid reliability amid increasing renewable energy penetration involves fundamental changes to power system operation and the resources leveraged to provide grid services. This consortium brings together leading experts to research how to enable inverter-based resources to help shape a reliable grid for today and tomorrow.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The major driver for the project is the need to decarbonize the electrical grid, protect it from cybersecurity attacks and make it more resilient. The major driver for the project is the need to decarbonize the electrical grid, protect it from cybersecurity attacks and make it more resilient.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The project aims at building a 10 MW green ammonia plant directly coupled to local wind and solar power generation. The dynamic approach entails that the clean power from wind turbines and solar panels will be connected directly to the electrolysis unit making it more cost-effective than if involving a battery or hydrogen storage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

A123 Systems will supply a 2MW grid Li-ion energy storage system to Ray Power Systems Co. The project in China will be designed to validate the technical capabilities and benefits of energy storage as a fast-ramping, accurate and clean resource for providing frequency regulation services.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. 1 million to use high-fidelity solar forecasting to predict load impacts on California’s electricity grid and reduce solar integration costs.

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Electrek

MAY 26, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US Pacific Coast is approved for commercial-scale offshore clean energy projects for the first time. New US wind and solar scheduled for connection to the grid has reached record levels. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Southern California Edison (SCE) opened the largest battery energy storage project in North America—the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project—to modernize the grid to integrate more clean energy. This installation will allow us to take a serious look at the technological capabilities of energy storage on the electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced nearly $8 million for nine cooperative projects that will complement existing H2@Scale efforts and support DOE’s Hydrogen Shot goal to drive down the cost of clean hydrogen by 80% within the decade. Award amount: $500,000). Award amount: $1,189,000). Award amount: $1,157,219).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2012

UniEnergy Technologies LLC has signed a license agreement with Battelle to further develop and commercialize a vanadium redox flow battery developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) that holds promise for storing large amounts of renewable energy and providing greater stability to the energy grid. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2019

At peak times, some US states and countries already have more renewable power than their grids can handle. Despite those periods of excess wind and solar power, because the ability to store electricity for more than a few hours is lacking, dispatchable power from the combustion of fossil fuels continues to bridge gaps in supply.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Stanford University. Since its founding in 2009, ARPA-E has provided $2.93

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