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A new study of the impact of high EV adoption on the Western US power grid by a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has found that 2028 grid resource adequacy—from generation through transmission—is likely to be sufficient for high EV penetration. million for the WECC.
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A new study by Michael Wang and Jeongwoo Han at Argonne National Laboratory and Xiaomin Xie at Shanghai Jiao Tong University assesses the effects of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and cellulosic biomass and coal co-feeding in Fischer-Tropsch (FT) plants on energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of FT diesel (FTD).
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hybrids and plug-in hybrids vs. battery EVs); pricing; power generation investment and capacity; funding and developing an infrastructure; and energy sources for electricity. 19% of those surveyed indicated the government should bear the primary burden of developing and funding an EV infrastructure or smart grid. of those surveyed.
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China's electrification, renewables, and infrastructure trajectories mean coal demand is going to plummet, and emissions with it. Not so much. The post China Likely To Have Lower GHG Emissions Than USA By 2035 appeared first on CleanTechnica.
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