Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

The Hawaii infrastructure could eventually support tens of thousands of fuel cell vehicles. Hawaii is uniquely positioned and motivated to make hydrogen-powered fuel cell transportation a reality because it depends on imported petroleum for 90 percent of its energy. Hawaii Energy Challenges. Hawaii Energy Challenges.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2011

Hawaii has awarded an $820,000 contract from the Hawaii EV Ready Grants Program to AeroVironment to fund the deployment of up to 320 AeroVironment 240-volt electric vehicle (EV) charging docks throughout the islands. Customers who purchase an EV are also eligible for a state rebate of up to $4,500.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Tesla Megapacks arrive in Hawaii with the state’s last coal shipment as it shifts its grid to renewables supported by energy storage enabled by batteries like the Megapacks. The post Tesla Megapacks arrive in Hawaii with the state’s last coal shipment appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

The system will be installed at the Hawi wind farm on the island of Hawai’i and connected to the Hawai’i Electric Light Company (HELCO) utility grid. ( Earlier post.). The equipment purchase and associated service contracts, valued at approximately $1.8

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Harbor/Hickam, Hawaii; Fort. Smith, Hawaii—SPIDERS is to enable those facilities to operate. independent from the bulk power grid (i.e., Focused on three distinct military. installations—Joint Base Pearl. Carson, Colorado; and Camp. mode”) for extended time periods, with maximum assurance that. sources into the.

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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. The $47 million in new Recovery Act awards will support existing projects that are advancing demonstration-scale smart grid technologies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2010

The project is designed to test the performance characteristics of the battery and to demonstrate the effectiveness of battery storage technology to integrate wind energy into an electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Optimally integrating transportation with buildings, the grid, and renewables to realize system-wide benefits. Long a leader in transportation decarbonization research, NREL’s leading scientists and cutting-edge facilities have prepared the laboratory to innovate emerging technologies and trends from a variety of angles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The bidirectional charging units are capable of providing up to 300 kW of power to plug-in electric vehicles and also can discharge a like amount of stored energy from the vehicle batteries to the grid or microgrid via Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standard J1772-compliant bidirectional charging cables.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of up to $40 million, subject to appropriations, to design, permit, and construct an open-water, grid-connected national wave energy testing facility. For context, approximately 90,000 homes can be powered by 1 TWh per year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2010

has delivered the first of what it calls “Ancillary Power Vehicles” (APVs)—batter-electric vehicles with a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability—to the US Army Tank Automotive Research Center (TARDEC) in Hawaii this week in partnership with Honeywell Aerospace. Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

Following the start of the project in September 2015, a redox flow battery system (2 MW x 4 hours) was constructed for a power grid at a substation in San Diego. Demonstration will now be carried out to evaluate the management of surplus electricity and regulation of grid frequency and voltage fluctuation.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Military and non-proliferation experts are worried about the growing temptation by nuclear-armed countries to engage in a first-strike EMP attack using nuclear weapons that, while avoiding direct casualties, could prove devastating to electric grids and electronic devices from smartwatches to supercomputers. See the illustration, below.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My wife, Zan, and I were recently on the Big Island, Hawaii, and while there we toured the state’s only geothermal plant. Hawaii's 30 megawatt geothermal control room. The rest of Hawaii’s electricity is generated by burning oil. Hawaii's 30 MW geothermal power plant. URL: [link]. By JOHN MARKOFF.

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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). Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Hawaii each have more than 50 MW of power capacity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

Another three are on the West Coast and in Hawaii: Seattle (4), Portland (5), and Honolulu (6). Honolulu, with 26 quick chargers, has one of densest charging grids in the US. EVs fit into a larger energy-independence initiative in Hawaii since the state can make its own energy and become less reliant on shipping in fuel.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Tesla has highlighted a Megapack project that went live in Hawaii earlier this year, which is effectively replacing the state’s last coal plant. The post Tesla highlights the Megapack site replacing Hawaii’s last coal plant appeared first on TESLARATI. You can watch the full video below.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

By understanding the characteristics of cloud shadows that pass across a large PV system, utility officials can devise strategies to better manage those fluctuations so the grid isn’t adversely impacted. Another is to stabilize the grid via infrastructure and software packages.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Hawaii project is jointly sponsored by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and by the US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD). Many ports have begun to enact sustainability goals or adopt green practices—an area in which fuel cells can play a role.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Such reasons include advantages to the electrical grid such as load balancing and energy storage, increased jobs and economic development, reduced stormwater pollution and consumer savings.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energy storage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. This latest funding round will enable Ambri to deliver commercial systems to customers, build its initial commercial-scale manufacturing plant, and continue technology development.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2011

On-board equipment duplicates grid-connection conditions to ensure the buoy’s electrical systems are subject to full operational testing for utility applications. This power generation data further validates the Company’s experience with its grid-connected Hawaii PowerBuoy system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The partnership combines GE’s global scale, broad technology portfolio, smart grid expertise, and its new WattStation Level 2 electric vehicle charger ( earlier post ) with Better Place’s EV services and infrastructure solution. Better Place is already working towards initial network deployments in these markets, beginning in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The PB150 PowerBuoy, with a peak-rated output of 150 kW, is the largest and most powerful wave power device designed by OPT to date, and is designed for use in arrays for grid-connected power generation projects. (OPT) has completed the first of its new generation utility-scale PowerBuoy device, the PB150. Earlier post.) The PowerBuoy 150.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

Vehicles owned by households in districts constrained by area—such as Hawaii and District of Columbia—were driven shorter distances than others (~24 miles per day, compared to a national average of 39.5 Solar Journey USA project. A 2011 Tesla Roadster would be able to satisfy >98.5% of travel days, assuming a minimum range of 0.85

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Imagine the change to this outlook if these companies were required to provide 20 percent of the power they generated from an alternative energy source in order to provide any power to the grid. cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61 Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 in Connecticut.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

They are based out of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Virginia. Evaluating flexible grid service for opportunities to generate biopower from wastewater.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. The curve is based on decades of measurements taken from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, and is named for Charles David Keeling, who started the CO? Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.) in Earth’s atmosphere since the 1950s.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Another Tesla Megapack system was powered on this week, coming as the latest of the company’s increasing deployment of the grid-scale batteries. ” The project, like most BESS projects, is also expected to help increase local grid stability and to reduce the need for spinning reserves of natural gas and hydro generators.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The project is 100-percent owned and operated by TagEnergy, in partnership with Tesla, Habitat Energy, and RES, and it successfully reported completing a commissioning switching program between on-site workers and engineers with the National Grid. The post UK Tesla Megapack facility powers on with 100MW/200MWh appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Operators recently turned on what is now Belgium’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS), as backed by Tesla’s Megapack grid-scale batteries. Tesla highlights the Megapack site replacing Hawaii’s last coal plant What are your thoughts?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2017

Sunrun already has installed initial systems in both Hawaii and California. Advanced, safe and highly reliable automotive quality lithium-ion battery cells are used throughout LG Chem’s range of residential and grid-scale battery systems. states and Canadian provinces.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 18, 2025

Tesla is set to provide its Megapack grid-scale batteries for a new energy storage project in Belgium, coming as the latest of many storage facilities popping up around the world. READ MORE ON TESLA MEGAPACKS: Tesla highlights the Megapack site replacing Hawaii’s last coal plant Tesla scales up Megapack production in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The industry needs to continue to overcome the obstacles of extended range, price and impact on the grid if we’re going to be able to deliver a better experience than what consumers currently get. In North America, Better Place has worked actively with local partners and government in Ontario, Canada; the San Francisco Bay Area; and Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

This project demonstrates reduction of peak loads in the home using a utility-controlled storage system to lower demand from the utility and reduce the burden on the grid. Deployments in the Hawaii and California markets have taken place in both homeowner and utility applications.

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Teslarati

JUNE 29, 2022

Being grid-scale batteries, Megapacks could perform tasks that are typically assigned to peaker plants. Megapacks are able to support the grid just as well, if not better, than peaker plants, and they are also a whole lot cleaner. . A number of high-profile grid-scale battery projects utilize Tesla Megapacks.

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