Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2011

BC Hydro has selected S&C Electric Company, a renewable energy integration company, for a sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery energy storage project intended to improve service reliability for a remote mountain community in British Columbia. This integrated solution optimizes total system efficiency and reliability for the community.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Yi Cui has developed nanoparticle copper hexacyanoferrate (CuHCF) battery cathode materials that demonstrate long cycle life and high power for use in grid storage applications. Short-term transients, including those related to wind and solar sources, present challenges to the electrical grid. A team at Stanford led by Prof.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Schematic of a sodium-nickel chloride cell with planar design. A planar (flat) sodium-nickel chloride battery could deliver 30% more power at lower temperatures than the typical cylindrical design, according to researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Screen shot of a Grid Command Distribution “heatmap” analysis for a neighborhood. Battelle recently unveiled its new Grid Command Distribution services and software for utilities. VVO seeks to optimize voltage at all points along the distribution feeder under all loading conditions, thereby increasing grid efficiency.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

RAL researchers are proposing a new process for the decomposition of ammonia to release hydrogen that involves the stoichiometric decomposition and formation of sodium amide from Na metal. To date, very few candidates show potential beyond that of the seminal work on titanium-doped sodium alanate. Credit: ACS, David et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron Energy , a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has closed a strategic investment by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) to support the development of stationary energy storage systems for demand charge management at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C. A typical Li-air battery discharges at 2.5-2.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed. Reduce the need to compensate for the variability and limited predictability of wind generation resources.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

A plot of ESOI for 7 potential grid-scale energy storage technologies. Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. Click to enlarge. Barnhart and Sally M.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2014

Using the MCS, PowerStream can determine when it is most economical to use the resources powering its microgrid or when they need to revert to using power from the provincial power grid. GE and PowerStream Inc. It is jointly owned by the cities of Barrie, Markham and Vaughan.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries. In their study, Yang et al. The need for storage.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2015

For example, solar-storage integrated systems require lifetimes matching solar cells (30 years), electric vehicles require a high power and capacity, and grid storage requires an extreme low cost. —Cohn et al. Credit: ACS, Cohn et al. Click to enlarge. —Cohn et al. Cohn, Keith Share, Rachel Carter, Landon Oakes, and Cary L.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

NY-BEST is an industry-focused coalition working to establish New York as a global leader in energy storage technology for heavy-duty transportation, electric grid and other storage applications. of Greene to develop an electric forklift for use in freezer warehouses using GE’s Durathon sodium-halide batteries. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

However, researchers have found that the contact between the ceramic electrolyte and a solid lithium anode is insufficient for storing and supplying the amount of power needed for most electronics. These electrolytes are highly conductive, non-combustible and strong enough to resist dendrites. 2019.05.022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. times above that of sodium-ion batteries with graphite electrodes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

Described in a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the smart membrane separator could enable the design of a new category of rechargeable/refillable energy storage devices with high energy density and specific power that would overcome the contemporary limitations of electric vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Total has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new stationary batteries that are designed to enable the storage of solar power. The ARPA-E award is supported the development of the liquid metal grid-scale battery for low-cost, large scale storage of electrical energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts. Earlier post.).

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Molten Salt MIT Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The discovery potentially could shift the whole paradigm of high-power electrochemical energy storage with new design principles for electrodes, said Xianyong Wu, a postdoctoral scholar at OSU and the first author of the paper published in the journal Nature Energy. —Xiulei Ji. —Xiulei Ji. Xianyong Wu, Jessica J.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2012

A team from Stanford University and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have demonstrated the novel concept of a “desalination battery” that uses an electrical energy input to extract sodium and chloride ions from seawater and to generate fresh water. Click to enlarge. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. —Pasta et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Integrated Power Block Heat Exchanger/Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP Plants, $348,000 CFOAM LLC, Triadelphia, W. Kairos Power, Oakland, Calif. Madison, Wis.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

A typical petrol-powered ICE car emits about 4.6 Also EV’s have another advantage, as the grid gets cleaner your EV will emit less and less emissions. 9,10,11,12] LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) and Sodium-Ion battery packs will not use Cobalt and Nickel. 4] An electric car emits about 3,000 pounds or 1.36 metric tons (5.07

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2010

At full capacity the plant could produce approximately 10 million cells capable of generating 900 megawatt-hours of energy per year—the equivalent of the battery power required for 45,000 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with an 80-mile range or enough energy to support 1,000 GE Evolution Series hybrid locomotives.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Stiff Competition for Engineering Talent One critical area of resource competition is over the limited supply of software and systems engineers with mechatronics and robotics expertise needed for EVs. They can be refurbished, rebuilt and reused in EVs , or repurposed into storage devices for homes, businesses or the grid.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Production at every single battery materials plant that we’re starting up will be powered by 100% renewable energy sources from day one. Several aspects are key in choosing a location, including the availability of all the resources and the ecosystem we need—battery metals, renewable energy, talent and infrastructure, close to our customers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The number of fuel cell deployments has begun to grow in the material handling equipment and backup power markets, in particular. Using biogas and fuel cells for co-production of on-site power and hydrogen. In addition to fuel cells for on-site power generation, the hydrogen produced using biogas can be used to power vehicles.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Production at every single battery materials plant that we’re starting up will be powered by 100% renewable energy sources from day one. Several aspects are key in choosing a location, including the availability of all the resources and the ecosystem we need—battery metals, renewable energy, talent and infrastructure, close to our customers.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The electric car features three different battery options, two different Lithium-based (LI) systems – A123Systems and Enerdel as well as a Sodium-Nickel battery Zebra (Mes-Dea). Creature comforts include air conditioning, power steering, sunroof, and electric windows and mirrors.

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