Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

Installation of large-scale energy storage systems is expected to continue increasing in the U.S. According to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shared on Tuesday, U.S. energy storage system deployment is expected to nearly double in 2024, with battery capacity forecasted to grow by 89 percent.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 18, 2022

A new Tesla job posting on its website shows that Tesla has plans to launch a retail electricity business in Texas. The posting is for Product Operations Manager, Retail Electricity and the job category is in Energy- Solar and Storage. You can also reach me on Twitter @JohnnaCrider1.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Update: Elon Musk told Teslarati the expansion plans will accommodate Tesla Giga Texas’s “ecological paradise.” Ecological paradise plans from south portion of Giga Texas to river look great, however we must first get the factory financially on its feet. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 21, 2022.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 7, 2022

Tesla recently uploaded a video introducing its latest energy storage project in Angleton, Texas. Tesla installed 81 Megapacks in Angleton totaling 200 MWh of energy. According to Tesla, the Megapack storage project will allow Angleton to participate in the energy storage market and support the Texas grid during outages.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

As Tesla’s energy business continues to grow, backup power generation will remain at the center of future developments.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 15, 2021

While I think that of the major vendors, VW is most likely to thrive in the transition to fully electric vehicles, its vehicle-to-grid offerings are so early that they are best thought of as an experimental platform.

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Teslarati

MAY 26, 2022

Tesla is urging Powerwall owners in Texas to help demonstrate how a fleet of home battery systems can be used to help stabilize the state’s grid. Texas’ grid has gained notoriety due to challenges it faces from the weather, from extreme heat to winter snow and ice storms. .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

Duke Energy, Samsung SDI and Younicos are partnering to update Duke Energy’s 36-megawatt (MW) energy storage and power management system at the company’s Notrees Windpower Project in west Texas. The system, one of the US’ largest, has been operating since 2012 with lead acid batteries.

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Teslarati

JUNE 21, 2022

In a new plan from the Texas Department of Transportation, the state is setting aside $408 million for electric vehicle charging infrastructure over the next five years. Since Tesla moved its headquarters to Texas late last year, the state has made strides in EV adoption.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Starting with Texas, Tesla (TSLA) is now expanding its wings as a retail electricity provider. The electric auto manufacturing and energy company is currently providing cost-effective electricity to its Tesla vehicle owners and Tesla Powerwall (home battery storage) customers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The University of Michigan (U-M) and eight partner institutions will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors as replacements for the traditional liquid or polymer electrolytes in common lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and in flow cells for storing renewable energy in the grid.

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Teslarati

JULY 20, 2024

Tesla’s Megapacks are set to support France’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS), on which the company has begun construction, as announced this week. Tesla Energy posts record 9.4 Tesla Energy posts record 9.4 “We are excited to commence building works on our first project.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Bolivian micro-mobility and clean energy startup MOBI has partnered with American direct lithium extraction company Energy Exploration Technologies Inc. Both companies will work towards creating a Bolivian domestic lithium battery supply chain to develop the region’s electric mobility market. EnergyX) ( earlier post ).

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Tesla has launched its Powerwall home energy storage systems in two new countries over the past couple of months, most recently including in Taiwan. On Wednesday, the Tesla Energy account on X posted that the Powerwall is now available in Taiwan, including a link to the Taiwanese page for the energy storage product.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 17, 2021

Electric Pickups Can’t Carry the Load on Their Own, but They’ll Sure Help.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

The system will be integrated with a 750-kilowatt energy storage facility that can store 2 million watt-hours of energy using batteries. The project will also include a 50-kilowatt-hour facility to demonstrate the potential reuse of vehicle electric batteries for stationary energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The US Department of Energy announced Stage 1 winners of the Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric and thermal applications ( CABLE ) Conductor Manufacturing Prize. For more than a century, the conductivity of materials that carry electricity has remained almost unchanged.

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Teslarati

JUNE 8, 2024

A VPP essentially uses several Powerwall owners to create a giant, distributed battery across a large region, letting owners sell stored electricity back to the grid during times of peak demand. Tesla’s VPPs are currently being piloted in California, Texas, Massachusetts, and a number of other territories within and beyond the U.S.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Toyota has announced that it will work with Oncor, a Texas-based electric utility, on vehicle-to-grid technology that may compete with Tesla’s Virtual Power Plant. Tesla has sparked new interest in energy products since its launch of the Tesla Powerwall.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

A group of US and Canadian power grid operators, who manage most of the North American bulk electric grid collectively, studied the effect that plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) would have on the electric power grid. PEVs in the LA region could add electric load of 658 MW if every PEV charged simultaneously.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The cell operates without a catalyst and has high storage efficiency. Credit: ACS, Lu et al. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Tesla has reached a new milestone with the installation of its Powerwall energy storage systems around the world, just as the company starts rolling out its next-generation version of the system in the U.S. On Friday, the Tesla Energy account on X said that the company has reached 600,000 Powerwall installations worldwide.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. Well, let's think. Most of the world’s hydrogen comes from deeply polluting methods.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. Those high magnetic fields may one day enable nuclear fusion energy, which I wrote about recently [see “ This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape ”]. tesla magnetic field in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

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Teslarati

APRIL 12, 2021

The analyst noted that Tesla’s ongoing supply challenges would likely alleviate in 2022, particularly as the company’s new factories, Gigafactory Texas and Giga Berlin, start their operations. . He also boosted his price target by 155% to $1,071.00 per share. . Disclaimer: I am long TSLA.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Contour Energy Systems, Inc, developer of new fluorine-based battery chemistries, nanomaterials science and manufacturing processes for lithium-ion energy storage systems ( earlier post ) is merging with Li-ion battery maker ActaCell Energy Systems, a spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin ( earlier post.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

Following a successful launch in Texas last year, energy storage leader BLUETTI is expanding its Solar+ program to California, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. This is made possible by harnessing free solar energy and optimizing energy usage, with peak load shifting features in Time of Use areas.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

University of Texas at Austin. Though the immediate goal is to make effective, affordable batteries for EVs, consortium director and PNNL materials scientist Jun Liu expects the consortium’s work could also advance stationary grid energy storage. Idaho National Laboratory. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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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. Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, is supplying its Dynamic Power Resource on-site energy storage and power management system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Now, researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), collaborating with UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers, suggest that the US can retrofit diesel-electric trains with batteries in a way that is cost-competitive with diesel. a) Depiction of the TCO for battery-electric propulsion. (b)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc.,

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In any case, Tesla has been establishing energy storage sites with Megapacks, sometimes a single unit and other times several, in several places globally, including multiple “Big Battery” projects in Australia and Europe , solar projects in California in the U.S., a Panasonic test site in Japan and elsewhere.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher is working to determine how oversized a battery has to be while operating safely and efficiently during its lifetime of use by the US Navy. 200,000 in ONR grants over a three-year period to simulate, design and evaluate a high power Hybrid Energy Storage Module.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

Capstone provides sustainable energy alternatives with microturbines, EV charging, solar, battery energy storage and generators for prime and standby power. Once at the track, it provided all the power for the Andretti Autosport hospitality compound and was used to charge electric cars.

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