Tesla Electric partners with SunRun to bolster Texas grid
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 8, 2024
Tesla customers will soon use home energy-storage systems to support the Texas power grid.
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Tesla Electric partners with SunRun to bolster Texas grid
Baua Electric
AUGUST 8, 2024
Tesla customers will soon use home energy-storage systems to support the Texas power grid. Enrollment is open to SunRun customers who have that company’s solar panels connected to Tesla Powerwall batteries , and who have chosen Tesla Electric as their electricity provider.
MIT team studies grid impacts of concentrated highway EV fast charging
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2021
Researchers at the MIT Energy Initiative have investigated the grid impacts of scaled up highway fast-charging (HFC) infrastructure by using an operations model of the 2033 Texas power grid with uniquely high spatial and temporal resolution. —Mowry and Mallapragada. Mowry, Dharik S. Mallapragada (2021).
Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China
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.
H2FUTURE building world’s largest green hydrogen pilot plant; targeting the steel industry
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.
$50M Battery500 consortium targeting battery pack with specific energy of 500 Wh/kg
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.
How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid
Cars That Think
JANUARY 29, 2022
That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. We got a heartrending reminder of this fact in February 2021, when Texas experienced an. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Here’s how.
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