Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2023

The trial was conducted by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in partnership with ClearFlame and Duke Energy. Earlier post.) —Robert Schanz, ClearFlame Vice President, Research & Development Phase two testing in conjunction with ComEd, an Exelon company in Illinois will be the next step in the product development process.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Argonne National Laboratory ( ANL ) is hosting the Electrical Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Workshop at its campus outside of Chicago on 20-21 March. The event will address: Fundamentals of energy storage and its applications. State-of-the-art and emerging energy storage technologies. Energy storage marketplace.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

ABB will install a hybrid version of its high-efficiency ENVILINE wayside energy recovery and storage system for the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority’s (SEPTA) light rail system serving the greater Philadelphia area.

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Philadelphia Supplies Energy District of Columbia 240

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. million in funds to approximately 120 energy projects within seven program areas. HEATS: High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage ($37.3

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The US Department of Energy delivered more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for eight projects to further smart grid demonstration projects in seven states. Energy Secretary Chu also announced $10.5 Smart Grid System Report Annex A.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Selected teams will demonstrate the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies, which allow for semi-autonomous vehicles and advanced propulsion systems to improve energy efficiency. Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL). Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA).

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Universal GM Electric Vehicles West Virginia 334

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. The Federal Transit Administration reviewed more than $2 billion in applications for these funds.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. grids demands public scrutiny and accountability. Many Lines, Stable Power High-voltage transmission lines move large amounts of energy over long distances, linking power generation to consumption.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

The energy capacity of these sites was 1,688 MWh, and the maximum power that could be provided to the grid from these sites at any given moment (power capacity) was 1,022 megawatts (MW). Much of the recent increase in new storage capacity comes from battery energy systems co-located with or connected to solar projects.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the finalists in the $4-million American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize, a competition supporting innovations that help lower the costs and reduce the environmental impacts of extracting lithium from geothermal brines. Rice University – Team LiSED: “Lithium Selective ElectroDialysis”.

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Utah United States Lithium Ion Universal 259

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 37 energy research projects for $151 million in funding through the recently formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects). Biomass Energy (5 projects). ENERGY STORAGE.

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

In addition to SMART, the Alcoa initiative includes other partners in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe and Russia working on solutions related to Wetlands, Life Cycle Assessment, Voluntary Emissions Reduction and NGO Participation, Energy and Environmental Economics, Lightweight Materials and Design, and more.

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Detroit Sustainable Transportation Transportation Connect 342

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration ( MEITNER ). GW by 2050.

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Molten Salt Powered Power Illinois 284

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. 6b00665.

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Conversion Fuel CO2 Carbon 240

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

thyssenkrupp has signed a contract with Illinois-based CF Industries to supply a 20 megawatt alkaline water electrolysis plant to produce green hydrogen at their Donaldsonville, Louisiana, manufacturing complex. Industry experts project hydrogen will meet approximately 20% of the world’s energy needs by 2050, up from less than 1% today.

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Green Hydrogen Industry Industrial 221

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor. PPSA can scale across several large and growing markets, including commercial Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), electrified vehicle charging, and solar photovoltaic generation. Ideal Power Inc.,

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Power Powered Hybrid Lithium Ion 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

Energy companies have been a major proponent in developing the West Coast Electric Highway that has helped to educate consumers and raise awareness for EVs. Honolulu, with 26 quick chargers, has one of densest charging grids in the US. Illinois provides a $4,000 state tax incentive for purchases and reduced registration fees.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. Those include long-duration energy storage and hydrogen fuel cells.

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Lithium Ion Energy Storage Michigan Universal 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Advanced Energy Economy, Energy Foundation, Illinois Citizen Utility Board, Natural Resources Defense Council, Plug-in America and Sierra Club worked with diverse stakeholder and business interests to draft the Accord. —Chris King, chief policy officer, Siemens Digital Grid. We envision a world with zero emissions.

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Transportation Future Grid Sierra 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $30 million in funding for 21 innovative projects as part of the Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies and Semiconductors (CIRCUITS) program. Grid-Connected Modular Soft-Switching Solid State Transformers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced 15 Phase 1 semifinalists of the American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize, a $4-million competition designed to advance technologies and techniques to support direct lithium extraction from geothermal brines. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – SelectPureLi.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid. is trying to put together driven by Howard Choy the County’s Energy Services Manager. The loans are financed through the sale of assessment district bonds.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $27.5 Modern technology has the potential to reduce energy use in aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment, which demands up to 2% of domestic electricity use each year. Evaluating flexible grid service for opportunities to generate biopower from wastewater.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2014

Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. Galvanostatic studies showed that expanded graphite can deliver a high reversible capacity of 284?mAh?g

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Sodium Li-ion Maryland Battery 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2010

on the Advanced Batteries Café , hosted in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on 1 September 2010, in Rosemont, Illinois. For much of the discussion, café participants were grouped by topic: (1) vehicular batteries (BEVs and PHEVs), or (2) stationary batteries for energy storage applications.

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Plug-in Plug Battery Batteries 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced $139 million in federal funding for 55 projects across the country that will support new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies (DE-FOA-0002197, earlier post ). Fully Fluorinated Local High Concentration Electrolytes Enabling High Energy Density Silicon Anodes. Dream Team Co LLC.

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Lithium Ion Vehicles Li-ion Universal 236

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

These initial 125 EVs will be maintained at Ryder’s state-of-the-art maintenance facilities within the California, New York, and Illinois markets where EV charging stations are being installed. Earlier post.) The Chanje all-electric large delivery style van is equipped to haul up to 6,000 pounds and up to 580 cubic feet of cargo.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2025

Kia confirmed in late 2023 that the Quasar 2 would be the first EV charger enabling bidirectional charging with the EV9, and that it would serve up home-backup and vehicle-to-grid functionality. That requires both the 12-kw Quasar 2 charger itself and a power recovery unit grid disconnect switch , which Wallbox bundles for $6,440.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2018

eMotorWerks, part of the Enel Group’s new advanced energy services division Enel X, has launched the JuiceNet Enterprise solution to simplify the management of large numbers of electric vehicle charging stations across multiple sites.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Estes has partnered with Dynamic Energy on the PV installations at the two terminals in Lakewood and Pine Brook, New Jersey. The freight industry is incredibly energy intensive,” explains Webb Estes, president and COO of the trucking company that shares his name. “The FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 8, 2024

to the Next Level Organized by the Smart Grid Observer, the 5th EV Charging Infrastructure Summit – North America, July 15-17, 2024 in Chicago examines key challenges, opportunities and advances related to EV charging deployment in the U.S. Discounts Available for Major Summit view in browser Taking EV Charging in the U.S.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Rivian has launched a unique renewable energy matching program for purchases made this year, coming on the heels of the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s latest carbon footprint report. MWh of renewable energy certificates (RECs) from U.S. Read more about the renewable energy projects supported by the Rivian community.…

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

And hence, while electric vehicles themselves produce zero carbon emissions, charging them increases the amount of electricity generated from fossil fuel energy sources such as coal. And oh BTW, according to the Energy Information Administration , California’s grid overall consumed 0% coal power. And so “EVs are bad.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected four projects for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0002180, Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Rivian has signed a power purchase agreement with Apex Clean Energy to supply their Normal, Illinois, manufacturing facility with wind power. As the energy demands of electric vehicle manufacturing have become more evident, many manufacturers are investing in cleaner and cheaper energy sources to maintain their sustainability focus.

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