Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has been awarded a $6-million grant by the California Energy Commission to install one of the largest electric vehicle (EV) fleet charging systems in the United States that will be powered by a solar and storage microgrid. MW of rooftop and bus solar canopy paired with a 4.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The joint research team designed an integrated system capable of adjusting the amount of battery charge/discharge and the amount of electrolysis hydrogen production in relation to the amount of solar power generated. The team then evaluated the economic feasibility of the system. 2018.11.119 ).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Ford is partnering with solar company Sunrun to enhance home energy management, leveraging the onboard battery capability of the all-electric F-150 Lightning. Sunrun will also offer home solar options to customers in select areas who are interested in leveraging more renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Sumitomo Corporation has developed and installed the first large-scale power storage system which utilizes used batteries collected from electric vehicles. Batteries Electric (Battery) Power Generation Smart charging Smart Grid' in September 2010, to address the secondary use of EV lithium-ion batteries. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Nuvve Corporation, a San Diego-based vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology company, is participating in a program to deliver resource adequacy to local utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and California’s electrical grid using a large stationary battery located on the University of California San Diego’s (UC San Diego’s) campus microgrid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven have created a solar panel that produces hydrogen gas from moisture in the air. Twenty of these solar panels could provide electricity and heat for one family for an entire winter. A traditional solar panel converts between 18 to 20% of the solar energy into electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

Distributing grid operational decision-making is revolutionary. The Congressional Research Service last year noted increasing interest among producers of distributed energy resources (DERs)—such as rooftop solar—to sell electricity to neighbors. Everyone would have laughed at you.

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Electrek

MARCH 10, 2025

The US installed 50 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2024, the largest single year of new capacity added to the grid by any energy technology in over two decades. Thats enough to power 8.5 million households.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2021

In 2017, Russelectric installed a renewable, hybrid microgrid at its Hingham location, consisting of grid power, a solar photovoltaic power generation system, an energy storage system, and a diesel generator. —Celia Dayagi, Head of Product Management for Siemens eMobility Solutions in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

EVgo, America’s largest public fast-charging network for electric vehicles (EVs), has launched a commercial installation of second-life battery storage at a public DC fast charging station. Reusing batteries as backup for charging is a win-win for the economics and the environmental benefits of EVs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2023

kW bidirectional charger that will enable EV owners to charge and discharge their electric vehicle to power their home, vehicle-to-home (V2H) or send energy back to the grid, vehicle-to-grid (V2G). Quasar 2 is a next-generation 11.5 A Kia EV9 can hold between 76 and 100 kWh of energy, more than 5x the amount of energy of a standard 13.5

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Campbell, California-based solar-powered EV charger company Paired Power has just debuted a modular, off-grid electric vehicle charger that is powered by a solar canopy. The post This modular off-grid solar EV charger can be installed in just four hours appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The CellPack Stationary is specially developed for the telecommunication industry, an industry that every year installs hundreds of thousands of smaller gensets to keep people around the world connected. The system can be installed as a hybrid solution combined with renewable energy sources such as solar cells or wind turbines.

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Electrek

MAY 16, 2024

Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has installed an off-grid solar tracker EV charging station for its employees.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

The partnership enables sodium-ion battery technology to be incorporated in a range of renewable energy applications including residential energy storage, commercial micro-grids, wind turbine and tidal energy storage. These trends will drive a significant increase in the use of battery storage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

The plan also details installation of solar PV canopies as well as switching to all-electric lawn mowers, grounds maintenance equipment and fleet maintenance vehicles. Make-ready infrastructure from Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) also qualified the district to participate in PG&E’s business electric vehicle (BEV) rate.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Tesla has confirmed that its energy division has completed more than 500,000 solar panel and Solar Roof installations, which was equal to about 4 GW of clean energy. The update bodes well for Tesla’s solar installations, as it suggests that Tesla Energy is growing, albeit at a deliberate pace.

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Teslarati

JULY 15, 2021

Tesla Energy’s ramp in the United States could accelerate soon as the Biden administration pushes to use a new tool that enables instant local permitting for rooftop solar installations. This has resulted in about a third of solar installations taking more than two weeks to process permits.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2021

Located at the heart of Total’s La Mède biorefinery and powered by solar farms with a total capacity of more than 100 MW, the 40 MW electrolyzer will produce 5 tonnes of green hydrogen per day to meet the needs of the biofuel production process at Total’s La Mède biorefinery, avoiding 15,000 tonnes of CO 2 emissions per year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We firmly believe that the know-how Québec has acquired with regard to batteries will help develop solar and wind power. Our products will also have useful applications in existing power grids, such as in managing consumption peaks. Energy storage will play a crucial role in the energy transition.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

The power plant is connected to the Los Angeles power grid by an existing high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission line. MHPS’s installed fleet of J-Series gas turbines has accumulated almost 1 million hours of operating experience. MHPS will service the plant under a 20-year long-term service agreement. and Hitachi, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Energy storage installations around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). Global cumulative energy storage installations. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2024

An emerging technology, grid-forming inverters, are letting utilities install more renewable energy facilities, such as solar photovoltaics and wind turbines. The inverters are often connected to utility-scale battery systems at solar-plus-storage facilities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Enphase Energy, a global energy technology company and the leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, has agreed to acquire EVSE company ClipperCreek. Accelerates the Enphase roadmap to enable bi-directional charging capability for vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid applications.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Continuing its ten-year project to spend Volkswagen diesel-emissions penalties on zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, Electrify America will invest $2 million to install 30 solar-powered charging stations in rural California.

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The Driven EV News

JUNE 12, 2024

Volkswagen plans to install large battery storage capacities in northern Germany to store wind and solar power, using mostly second-hand EV batteries. The post VW to use old EV batteries to build massive grid battery to store wind and solar appeared first on The Driven.

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Electrek

MARCH 22, 2024

Power-hungry Texas needs solar and battery storage to help meet demand and balance the grid, so its largest utility-scale storage operator is delivering.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in late February demonstrated a 20-kilowatt bi-directional wireless charging system installed on a UPS medium-duty, plug-in hybrid electric delivery truck. ORNL’s bidirectional technology is fully compliant with grid power quality standards.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The study, “ Long Duration Energy Storage for California’s Clean, Reliable Grid ,” conducted by Strategen, modeled that California’s future grid will be heavily reliant on intermittent and variable solar generation. Nearly 180 GW of the 240 GW of incremental capacity installed in California by 2045 will be solar.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

After taking solar installation classes and volunteering with GRID Alternatives for several years and learning to install racking systems, PV modules and inverters, and how to wire them up – including bending conduit – in 2015 I installed a solar PV system on my own roof with a crew of GRID experts.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Beyond the installation of charging stations, Electrify America is focused on innovating the overall EV charging experience. The first Electrify America DC fast charger site to feature a solar-powered canopy is in Baker, California, where the solar panels charge a battery energy storage system (BESS) on site.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 17, 2022

Sunrun is the USA’s #1 rooftop solar power installer in terms of how much solar power capacity it installs quarter after quarter. It just hit a massive milestone, installing its 700,000th rooftop solar power system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Arcadia connects renters and homeowners across the US to wind and solar energy through utility data and billing technology. In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Seeking to slash CO 2 emissions from its North American manufacturing operations, Honda has entered into long-term virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar power that will cover more than 60% of the electricity that Honda uses in North America. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant. Electricity generation from variable renewable electricity sources (VRE) such as wind and solar power has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to do so.

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Teslarati

MARCH 3, 2025

Dubbed the Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER), the pilot will utilize Tesla’s Powerwall home battery systems to create a distributed “battery” across owners, in order to help stabilize the grid and provide backup power in times of peak demand.

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