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. thousand in 2017.

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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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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

Typical daily grid demand. “ Why do you need energy storage on the grid, when the grid is full of power plants that generate all the energy that is needed? ” It would seem like a good question to ask and applies the same logic has been used for the past fifty years in determining grid strategy.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 18, 2023

National Grid Renewables has broken ground on what will be the largest solar farm in Kentucky once it comes online in 2024. more… The post Coal-state Kentucky just broke ground on its largest solar farm appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

We see $548 billion being invested in battery capacity by 2050, two thirds of that at the grid level and one third installed behind-the-meter by households and businesses. The result will be renewables eating up more and more of the existing market for coal, gas and nuclear. trillion of that going to wind and solar and a further $1.5

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Grid operators in Western Australia have turned on a Tesla Megapack project earlier than expected, coming under 18 months since construction began and becoming the state’s largest battery project yet.

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Electrek

APRIL 5, 2024

Solar topped coal’s output in Texas for the first time in any month, sending 3.26 million megawatt-hours (MWh) onto the grid vs. coal’s 2.96 million MWh in March.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Photo: Xcel Energy Xcel Energy has started delivering clean energy from one of the US’s largest solar farms: Sherco Solar in Minnesota. It’s a major step in the utility’s push to ditch coal and move to renewable energy across the Upper Midwest. What’s notable about Sherco Solar is not just its size but also its cost efficiency.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. Heavy Coal Using States Accounted for Only 10% of EV Sales in 2020. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Tesla has highlighted a Megapack project that went live in Hawaii earlier this year, which is effectively replacing the state’s last coal plant. Nearby Chairman Anthony Makana says that the BESS project allowed for the “sunsetting of one of the dirtiest polluters in our community,” referring to the coal plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

Deep declines in wind, solar and battery technology costs will result in a grid nearly half-powered by the two fast-growing renewable energy sources by 2050, according to the latest projections from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Wind and solar grow from 7% of generation today to 48% by 2050. —Matthias Kimmel, NEO 2019 lead analyst.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2020

Renewables investment has been more resilient during the crisis than fossil fuels, but spending on rooftop solar installations by households and businesses has been strongly affected and final investment decisions in the first quarter of 2020 for new utility-scale wind and solar projects fell back to the levels of three years ago.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 21, 2024

A coal plant in South Texas will shut down and convert to a solar + battery electricity generation facility, with the help of a $1.4 SMECI has operated a mine mouth lignite-fired coal plant (named due to its proximity to the mine that supplies it) since 1982. But that coal-fired plant is one of the dirtiest in Texas.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

The project aims to build the first Tesla Solar neighborhood, making a sustainable residential community. The Tesla Solar neighborhood was provisionally named SunHouse at Easton Park. Tesla Energy takes a stand against coal and gas generators in Australia. Tesla Energy also raised the price of its Solar Roof product.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

If the hydrogen is produced from solar power and water, the life-cycle water consumption is almost 60% less. FCEVs powered by H 2 via electrolysis using the US electricity grid mix also show a high life-cycle water consumption of 65 gal/100 miles. Life-cycle water consumption per 100 miles driven.

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Teslarati

JULY 5, 2021

Tesla Energy firmly argued against using coal and gas generators to support a proposed low-cost, reliable, secure, and zero-emissions grid in Australia. . First, Tesla is firmly against the idea of extending the life span of existing coal and gas generators. . Two main points were driven in the letter. Credit: Tesla Energy).

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Renewables will be the primary source for new electricity generation, but natural gas, coal, and increasingly batteries will be used to help meet load and support grid reliability. —EIA Acting Administrator Stephen Nalley. EIA projects electricity generation to almost double in developing non-OECD countries by 2050.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

For battery EVs, the GHG emissions for “fuel/electricity” production are dominated by the coal and natural gas used in electricity generation. Importantly, battery EVs can be expected to operate with progressively fewer upstream emissions over their lifetimes as electricity grids “green.” Source: The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. —Daniel Kammen.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

The joint venture’s initial investments are in: Alta Devices, Santa Clara, CA, improving the production economics of advanced materials for high-efficiency, low-cost solar energy. Centennial, CO, developing technology to biochemically convert coal to methane at large scale and low cost. Ciris Energy , Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

According to a new survey from Pike Research, general consumer support for clean energy concepts—ranging from renewable energy to alternative fuel vehicles to smart grid technologies—has eroded in the US between 2009 and 2011. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

Newly installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in the US in 2014 reached a record 6,201 MW, growing 30% over 2013’s total, according to the new US Solar Market Insight 2014 Year in Review report released by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). All solar projects completed in 2014 represent $17.8

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Wind and solar have been exhibiting very rapid growth, even as subsidies and support have in general become less generous, and that has been driven mainly by dramatic improvements to their cost-competitiveness, as well as by the removal of barriers such as grid bottlenecks.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

According to a new survey from Pike Research, US consumer support for renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, is high while support for cap and trade as a carbon management scheme is extremely low. Clean Coal: 47%. Smart Grid: 37%. Biofuels and the clean coal concepts tied on favorable views (47%).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It will require China to deploy an additional 800-1,000 gigawatts of nuclear, wind, solar and other zero emission generation capacity by 2030—more than all the coal-fired power plants that exist in China today and close to total current electricity generation capacity in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

The Chinese government recently announced increased investment in solar, wind, hydro and biomass energy in a bid to decrease its dependency on fossil fuels. To support the objective, IBM has developed a renewable energy forecasting system to help energy grids harness and manage alternative energy sources. Renewable energy forecasting.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2023

Rivian plans to convert the Starfire Mine in Kentucky to a solar energy center. The conversion is estimated to be a $1 billion solar project. The Starfire Mine, Kentucky, was once one of the largest coal mines in the United States. It will be one of Kentucky’s largest renewable power projects once converted.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. By 2035, cellulosic ethanol and/or coal-and-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15% of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (1.7–2.5 the power grid) are urgently needed.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In line with the government’s plan to develop a national e-vehicle industry, the project will support the establishment of an e-vehicle parts industry, battery supply chain, and charging stations, including five off-grid solar charging stations. More than 40% of Chhattisgarh’s 21 million residents live below the poverty line.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 19, 2007

The Ugly Coal sucks, there's really no two ways about it. But not all use of coal is alike. The Good About half our electricity comes from coal, and that will change, at best, slowly as we move to renewables. That includes the worst, most coal dependent areas. We can make electricity many ways, some better than others.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The 1,000 wind turbines that the spheres could anchor could, on average, replace a conventional on-shore coal or nuclear plant. This energy source could be made available within minutes, and then taken offline just as quickly.

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2024

According to a statement last week from Italy’s grid operator, renewable energy overtook fossil fuels as the lead source of electricity generation in the first six months of the year. percent during the same period in 2023, while fossil fuels saw a 19-percent decrease year over year, and coal production dropped steeply by 77.3

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