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The British military just bought these off-grid solar EV chargers

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Photo: BEAM Global The British military has placed a $1 million order for San Diego-based Beam Global’s (Nasdaq: BEEM) off-grid solar EV chargers. It’s the first big order for Beam Global’s Europe factory, but it’s already sold “hundreds” of US-manufactured off-grid solar EV chargers to the US military. Get started here. –ad*

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Sunrun launches the US’s first vehicle-to-home power plant using customer-owned Ford F-150 Lightnings

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Photo: Sunrun Solar + storage provider Sunrun has launched the US’s first vehicle-to-home power plant using customer-owned bidirectional Ford F-150 Lightning electric trucks. Vehicle-to-home power plants Bidirectional charging technology allows EVs to both draw power from the grid and send stored energy back to homes.

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German officials’ and Elon Musk’s speeches on Tesla Giga Berlin’s opening event highlight a message of hope

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Personally, I’m grateful to Elon Musk for locating such a project here,” Woidke said , adding that he and the Tesla CEO have been in close contact over the construction of Giga Berlin. . So, for solar and wind, because it’s intermittent and needs to be stored.

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This will be the first geothermal energy storage system on the Texas grid

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Electric utilities and co-ops like [San Miguel Electric Cooperative] will be able to use our technology to complement wind and solar, and stabilize the grid.” Sage’s proprietary technology will be used in Christine to store energy, targeting 6-to-10-hour storage durations and delivering a round-trip efficiency of 70-75%.

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Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be

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It’s a two-hour energy storage system that stores and dispatches excess wind and solar power. It’s charged and discharged daily and dispatches stored renewable energy at peak consumption hours to help meet demand. Because what happens, at that point, is the solar energy has really started to ramp off as the sun’s going down.

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Waffle House is getting NEVI DC fast chargers in Tennessee

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Tennessee’s future oasis of DC fast charging and Waffle House comfort food is the only restaurant in Tennessee’s first round of NEVI awards and one of just two spots not doubling as a gas station or convenience store. The EnviroSpark team chose a Waffle House because it’s 24/7, ticking one of the NEVI program’s boxes.

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Tesla partners with Sunrun on its ‘Tesla Electric’ utility

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Image: Sunrun Tesla Electric, Tesla’s electric utility division, is partnering with solar installer Sunrun to grow its user base in Texas. The company was already partnering with Tesla to install Powerwalls with its solar installations. Today, we learn that Tesla Electric secured a new partner: Sunrun. Get started here.

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