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SMUD and Japan’s TEPCO partner on vehicle-grid integration technologies

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TEPCO believes SMUD, with its ambitious zero carbon target by 2030 and innovative experience in leading green energy-efficiency and distributed energy resources activities, such as solar plus storage, is the ideal partner for significant real-world vehicle-to-everything collaboration.

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NSF awards UCSD team $39M to improve integration of distributed energy resources into grid; EV batteries also

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To provide 50%—or more—of power from clean energy sources, power grids will have to be able to leverage distributed energy sources, and reliably manage dynamic changes, while minimizing impact on customer quality of service. We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus.

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CA Energy Commission awards CSE $1.5M for development of standards-based smart EV charging platform; first employment of ISO/IEC 15118

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million grant to the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to lead development of an advanced management platform for integrating electric vehicle (EV) charging with utility-scale energy systems. Group 2: Grid communication interfaces for plug-in electric vehicle charging to support vehicle-to-grid services.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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That incident—as well as Orajaka’s new fascination with renewable energy technologies, specifically solar—changed his career trajectory. He began researching how solar energy technology worked. Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. power-grid transmission.

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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

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The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. Ark’s first move was to access more renewable power in Australia by buying into a 923-MW wind farm that’s expected to spin up in 2024. Why a hydrogen truck? In 2021, Ark Energy took a stake in.

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US DOE Selects 43 Projects for $92M in ARPA-E Funding; 3 on Automotive Power Electronics

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The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive marketpower electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; billion per year.

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