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 Reports

MARCH 12, 2017

SolarCity was already controlled by Musk, who believes its solar-energy business can be reinforced and complemented by Tesla's energy-storage business. Even before Elon Musk engineered Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity, the two companies were collaborating.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. In France, renewable energy consumption will be 20 percent by 2020. EIA projections of renewables penetration. Source: EIA.

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Electrek

MARCH 28, 2023

Kohala Blue, a boat tour operator in Kawaihae on the Big Island of Hawaii, has introduced what it calls the first renewable electric catamaran charter in Hawaii. The Dolce Vita is powered by an electric propulsion system that is charged by solar panels, wind turbines, and propeller regeneration.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Outside of a few Western States, utility-scale geothermal may be considered a more limited energy source than some other renewable technologies, but that is changing. In 2012, Enel Green Power’s Stillwater Geothermal Power Plant was commissioned in the Silver State, becoming the country’s first hybrid solar-geothermal project.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is a member of a team that was recently awarded a $7-million contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to demonstrate integration of electric vehicles, generators and solar arrays to supply emergency power for Fort Carson, Colo. Harbor/Hickam, Hawaii; Fort. integrating renewables and other.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Hawaii-based Mauna Loa , one of the world’s major macadamia nut brands, just got a 1.2-megawatt megawatt solar farm and 500 kW battery storage system. The new solar and storage join existing clean energy sources at the facility, which means it’s now powered by 100% clean energy.

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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 site also comes ahead of Hawaiian Electric’s goal of reaching 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. You can watch the full video below.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2016

HydroGEN Consortium (HydroGEN) –this consortium will accelerate the development of advanced water splitting materials for hydrogen production, with an initial focus on advanced electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and solar thermochemical pathways. —Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Friedman.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 6, 2015

Nearly four months after taking off from Abu Dhabi to attempt a circumnavigation of the globe, the sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 airplane has crossed the Pacific Ocean. The plane landed in Hawaii Friday, achieving another milestone in the attempt to fly around the world with no onboard fuel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

DHE, with support from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and additional project partners, will make further investments in electric forklifts, over-the-road electric trucks, and charging infrastructure, all powered with solar energy generated onsite.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2017

Other projects address advanced manufacturing, bioenergy, buildings, geothermal, solar, water and wind technologies. The Round 3 fuel cell awardees are: Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers. In the advanced manufacturing area, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has been awarded $70,000 to work with BASiC 3C , Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Selections were made under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) annual funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in 2017. University of Hawaii at Manoa. Efficient Solar Water Splitting with 5,000 Hours Stability Using Earth-abundant Catalysts and Durable Layered 2D Perovskites.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

As the redox flow battery has excellent durability and is extremely safe and suitable for both fast response and long duration applications, it is expected to be an effective solution to addressing issues that result from increased integration of renewable energy. Background.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 7, 2024

Tesla’s Megapacks offer energy storage for renewable sources like solar, and as the company deploys more and more of these projects around the world, one large site with these giant batteries has just gone online in Hawaii.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Our readers wanted to know more about power beaming , new kinds of nuclear fusion, vertical solar farms, powerful ways to drill deeper into the Earths crust to harness geothermal energy, and grid hardware that connects renewable energy projects. After all, why shouldnt we try to stick solar panels where the sun always shines?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The work is part of a newly signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between ASU and Sandia to collaborate on algae-based biofuels, solar fuels, concentrating solar technologies, photovoltaics, electric grid modernization and the energy-water nexus.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The enormous Tesla Megapack battery allows local municipalities and utility companies to store excess energy created during the day, often from renewables such as wind and solar, and then use that energy to supplement the generators when their production decreases.

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Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2023

In its place, a 142 Megapack system was chosen as a sustainable energy storage solution pic.twitter.com/TfKTjOSm1J — Tesla Megapack (@Tesla_Megapack) March 21, 2023 Oxnard is yet another community that has pushed back against the expansion of fossil fuel power plants and has instead opted for power from renewable sources.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 158 Tesla Megapack 2 XL battery units are going to be used for load shifting and fast-frequency response services on the Hawaii Electric grid. It will enable better use of the state’s increasing renewable energy. It will enable better use of the state’s increasing renewable energy. Get started here.

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Plug in America

MARCH 25, 2022

And media from Vermont to Alabama to Hawaii and beyond continue to carry our message of change. . “With this letter I am writing to express my enthusiastic support for the application of Plug In America to participate in the January 20 th Presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington D.C.,” ” Pavley wrote.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 2, 2022

With co-sponsors including Juneau Hydropower, the City and Borough of Juneau , and Renewable Juneau , the event drew US House of Representatives candidate Nick Begich, as well as Alaska State Senator Jesse Kiehl, and Alaska Assembly Member Wade Bryson. NDEW event on Kauai in Hawaii. Coming soon: NDEW wrap-up to the south and east.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. “The more fluctuating energy you have from renewables, the more it makes sense to have a smart grid,&# said Markus Ewert from the new technologies team of German utility E.ON but not all of it.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. How PHEV provides Smooth Transitions from fossil fuel to renewables.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) that encourages appropriate development of renewable energy projects on public lands withdrawn (set aside) for defense-related purposes, and other onshore and offshore areas near military installations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2012

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) that encourages appropriate development of renewable energy projects on public lands withdrawn (set aside) for defense-related purposes, and other onshore and offshore areas near military installations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

The North American infrastructure is starting in California (2015: 11 public H 2 stations with the next 28 funded, targeting ~ 100 H 2 stations by 2020), with additional investments in Vancouver, Hawaii (4 stations) and the Northeast (1 station this year, ~ 8 by 2020). Europe and Asia-Pacific are seeing faster growth.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. . La Di Da. .

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. . La Di Da. .

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