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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Creative Greenius

MARCH 31, 2009

Our group was an interesting and friendly mix of unemployed construction workers looking for new careers; electricians, iron workers and other licensed contractors looking to expand into solar installation; and three or four guys who were there to learn how to do a self install of solar for their home, shop or cabin.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As our world becomes more connected, more electrified, and more renewable, not only are we increasing the demand on our energy systems, but we are also fundamentally changing the way they operate. Increasingly, wind and solar are replacing fossil fuels as our principle source of energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

Because of this, the new power consumers not only present an additional load on the power grid, but can potentially serve as flexible storage devices in the context of the variable availability of solar and wind power. The devices are connected via a home energy management system (HEMS).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

Xcel Energy has released the preliminary results from its wind-to-battery (W2B) storage project in Minnesota, and termed the technology successful. In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2009

Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, research led by scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., across the solar cycle. The paper does not analyze the weather impacts of the solar-driven events.

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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. Wind turbines are the first significant component of the Audi e-gas project. This results in a completely closed CO 2 cycle.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

Azerbaijans Pivot From Oil to Solar and Wind Of the six countries that make up the Caucasus region, Azerbaijan boasts the largest potential for generating exportable renewable energy for Europe, a fact that presents some measure of irony. The plants solar panels run in long rows over the gently sloped terrain.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Customers can choose here between the basic version and two fully networked variants, which they can control using the We Connect ID. More than 270,000 public charging points are already connected—both in towns and on long-distance routes. Charger, for example, the home charging station from the Group brand Elli.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The CellPack Stationary is specially developed for the telecommunication industry, an industry that every year installs hundreds of thousands of smaller gensets to keep people around the world connected. The system can be installed as a hybrid solution combined with renewable energy sources such as solar cells or wind turbines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Vattenfall Network Solutions can provide connections to the electricity grid along with the electrical and hydrogen infrastructure for a vehicle fleet or depot. Vattenfall currently operates more than 22,000 electric vehicle charging points in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway.

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Electrek

JULY 7, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The final floating turbine is connected at the Kincardine floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Electrek

AUGUST 9, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Saudi Arabia’s first wind farm is now connected and producing clean energy. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

To generate the renewable electricity needed to feed production of green hydrogen, Cepsa will develop a 3GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects with an additional €2-billion investment. It also has one of the highest wind and solar photovoltaic power generation and production capacity in Europe, and at the lowest cost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations. mmBtu and $8.43/mmBtu. Source: Hurlbut et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

But, in many high-use areas and remote locations, upgrading grid connections to meet future charging demand is not practical or commercially viable. Grid access and capacity issues, as well as the infeasibility of on-site solar and wind, is a barrier for EV charging in many locations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

This includes charging capabilities from renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. Next, the Exro team will continue development to validate whether the Coil Driver can be a grid-connected energy storage solution and provide electricity back when needed for resiliency and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications.

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Electrek

MAY 26, 2021

New US wind and solar scheduled for connection to the grid has reached record levels. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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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. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Lead organization.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2018

HES is now in discussion with industrial-scale hydrogen producers to explore energy-efficient refueling systems using renewable solar or wind energy produced locally. France alone offers a network of more than 450 airfields but only 10% of these are connected by regular airlines. We will simply connect the remaining 90%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It aims to experiment, test and develop energy solutions based on hydrogen, solar, tidal and wind power. The green hydrogen used by Energy Observer is made from seawater using on-board renewable sources of electricity (solar, wind and hydropower).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2015

The California Independent System Operator (ISO), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) unveiled a comprehensive roadmap to assess the current market environment and regulatory policies for connecting new energy storage technology to the state’s power grid. Weisenmiller.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2011

The charging station is connected to the public grid by a primary coil that is completely underground. The system also enables the smart use of energy, whereby the car also serves as a storage unit and most of the energy is surplus electricity from solar and wind power facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

Solar cells on the house roof and exterior provide the house with electricity. The One Tonne Life house has solar cell panels both on the roof and on the exterior wall facing south which generate, for instance, the required electricity for supplementary heating, ventilation, the fridge and the freezer.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2022

Further, a hydrogen plant connected to Diablo Canyon could produce clean hydrogen to meet growing demand for zero-carbon fuels, at a cost up to 50% less than hydrogen produced from solar and wind power, with a much smaller land footprint.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. Several factors combine to make Puerto Rico an ideal place for solar power and microgrids.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

UK-based Connected Energy and Groupe Renault have installed two quick-charge stations based on Connected Energy’s E-STOR energy storage technology on highways in Belgium and Germany. The E-STOR technology developed by Connected Energy uses second-life batteries from Renault electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Unlike traditional Haber-Bosch designs the RapidRamp process can accommodate being directly powered by intermittent energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro. The modular solution is sized to connect directly with renewable energy production, providing a scalable, distributed source of zero-carbon ammonia.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The latest funding is going to projects that could improve energy efficiency in buildings by reducing loads on air conditioners; reduce costs associated with generating electricity from solar power; and improve efficiency and power density of electric machines. Alameda, CA): Airborne Wind Turbine. million in funding.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

Connecting electric cars with renewable energies in an intelligent way can have a positive effect on the energy transition. This would allow charging with solar or wind power, depending on what is available. Further, it would potentially allow flexible reactions to short-term power fluctuations in the grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In case the charging process is based on renewable power supply, the charging station furthermore allows the temporary storage of sustainably generated power, such as solar or wind energy—and therefore CO 2 -neutral mobility. They can be set up anywhere as required—with or without connection to the power supply.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

These will then be assembled together with the connections to the vehicle, the control units and the cooling units in an aluminium housing specific to each model. When operated exclusively with regeneratively generated energy, such as wind or solar power, the CO 2 footprint was even reduced by more than 50%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project. DOE funding $13,516,546, total project value including cost share $27,419,424). 29,561,142.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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