Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

From rebates for electric and plug-in vehicles to energy efficiency and solar installations that are reducing home energy costs, more than 125,000 individual projects were completed in 2018. To date, $9.3 billion in cap-and-trade proceeds has been appropriated to 20 state agencies that have distributed $3.4 billion from other sources.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Commission also approved grants for the operation of a hydrogen fueling station, biofuel production, geothermal exploration and rooftop solar for schools. Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. Biomethane Hydrogen Power Generation Solar' First NorCal Retail H 2 Refueling Station Open.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

California PEV owners also have a high adoption rate of solar power, with 39% of respondents currently owning solar and 31% considering solar installations within a year. In San Diego, favorable utility rates result in some PEV owners paying equivalent to $0.90

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Saft has received its third contract from San Diego Gas and Electric (SDGE), a major California utility. The lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage systems will be used to mitigate power fluctuations inherent with solar-generated electricity. MWh, deployed in 12 containers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2012

million contract to develop a high-efficiency supercritical CO 2 hot gas turbo-expander for concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. per kilowatt hour, increasing energy conversion efficiency to greater than 50%, and reducing total power block cost to below $1,200 per kilowatt installed. The first is an $8.5-million The second is a $3.8-million

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2022

Electrify America has sharpened the focus on customer needs and reimagined the charging experience by introducing The Charging Station of the Future, Today which can add design and comfort elements such as solar canopies and awnings, customer waiting areas and other customer-focused services at select locations. Solar Awnings.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 19, 2009

On Monday and Tuesday of last week the Reverend Ron and I were in El Cajon, California working on our first volunteer solar install with our new friends from GRID Alternatives. GRID Alternatives San Diego Accomplishes First “Complete&# Install. It was a first for many staff and volunteers in San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. The thirteen award selections announced today fall into two areas: Concentrating Solar Power Systems Studies.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Under a proposal submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) this week, San Diego-based SDG&E is seeking approval to build charging infrastructure to enable about 3,000 medium/heavy-duty vehicles to go electric. One cutting-edge element of the proposal is an electric school bus vehicle-to-grid pilot.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The 500 kW PowerCube will be built and installed at Axion’ New Castle battery manufacturing facility and will be designed to enhance a Smart Grid electrical distribution system, including a future solar-powered electric vehicle charging station and a potential wind-powered energy system. Axion Power International, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

directional EV charging technology to partially power its North American headquarters in Franklin, TN, and its design center in San Diego, CA. Located in the Nissan Global Headquarters Gallery in Yokohama, the demonstration house features solar panels and a Nissan LEAF electric car that provides power from its battery pack.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2014

The Energy Commission approved 15 grants totaling more than $5 million to install 475 electric vehicle chargers in communities throughout California, including the cities of San Francisco, Burbank, Torrance and San Diego and the counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles.

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Electrek

MAY 17, 2022

Capistrano Volkswagen/Mazda , a car dealership in San Juan Capistrano, California, has partnered with San Diego-based solar and battery installation company Stellar Solar to offer EV customers solar, battery storage, and EV connectivity to power their cars with clean energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), in cooperation with the State of California and public utility company San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), started the demonstration of the United States’ largest redox flow battery system in California. Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Photo: SSA Marine The Port of San Diego has put the first commercially available, large-capacity, electric forklift made in the US into service. Leading the charge at the Port of San Diego’s Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal is a 55,000-pound capacity Wiggins Yard eBull battery electric forklift. Get started here. –

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the main impediments to harnessing solar energy is storage. Solar batteries work as a short-term solution, but not when it comes to long-term storage or to power, say, an entire city. Solar energy and oil wells might sound like an odd combination, but the principle is similar to how geothermal energy would be harnessed.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Abengoa Solar Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

This system can enable energy produced from solar panels to be used more efficiently. In 2013, BMW and the University of San Diego installed a micro grid application with Battery 2nd Life MINI E batteries. This approach minimizes energy waste, effectively reducing energy costs on a day-to-day basis.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

So buckle up and hang on while I take you for a little trip with the Greenius to the places I’ve been and the places I’m going… My First Solar PV Install. As regular Creative Greenius readers have learned, GRID Alternatives is a nonprofit organization that installs solar panels on low-income housing in California.

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EV Match

JULY 15, 2021

EVmatch will use the funding to install 120 publicly available Level 2 EV charging stations – currently the most affordable charging option available – with EVmatch’s unique reservation-based sharing software at apartment buildings throughout Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties. The Game Plan and Timeline.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

These capabilities are expected to become even more valuable in future facilitation of higher penetrations of solar- and wind-based generation. Systems Integrators and Installers. The tests have confirmed that B2U systems can successfully accomplish both goals. —Mike Ferry, Center for Sustainable Energy.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Photo: Arevon Arevon Energy has kicked off operations at Vikings Solar-plus-Storage – one of the US’s first utility-scale solar peaker plants. The $529 million project in Imperial County, California, near Holtville, features 157 megawatts of solar power paired with 150 megawatts/600 megawatt hours of battery storage.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Photo: Arevon One of the USs largest solar + battery storage projects is now online in Mojave, California. Arevon Energy s Eland 1 Solar-plus-Storage Project combines a 384-megawatt (MW) solar farm with a 150-MW/600 MWh battery storage system. Its second phase, Eland 2, is under construction and set to go live in early 2025.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Photo: BEAM Global The British military has placed a $1 million order for San Diego-based Beam Global’s (Nasdaq: BEEM) off-grid solar EV chargers. It’s the first big order for Beam Global’s Europe factory, but it’s already sold “hundreds” of US-manufactured off-grid solar EV chargers to the US military.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Image: Penske Truck Leasing Penske Truck Leasing is rolling out rooftop solar on its US truck leasing, rental, and maintenance buildings, starting in Illinois. The next Penske Truck Leasing rooftop solar system to come online will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan, “in the coming months,” followed by another in Linden, New Jersey, in 2025.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The result was a promise of two new Level 2 chargers to be installed in Trotwood over the next 24 months. National Drive Electric Week at the San Diego LBGT Community Center. EAA Vice President Elaine Borseth spoke at the National Drive Electric Week event at the San Diego LGBT Community Center.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region. Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

shocked climate advocates due to its proposed changes to the state’s rules on residential solar solutions. would charge solar users with a “grid participation charge” of $8/kWh of installed solar. We recognize, as SEIA/Vote Solar states, that the study does not tell the complete story. program.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Furthermore, while PEV drivers have taken advantage of the increasing number of workplace and public chargers available in key metropolitan areas of the state, the costs of installation and equipment continue to limit accessibility of charge points in these locations. The charging stations will be free to the public.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The result was a promise of two new Level 2 chargers to be installed in Trotwood over the next 24 months. National Drive Electric Week at the San Diego LBGT Community Center. EAA Vice President Elaine Borseth spoke at the National Drive Electric Week event at the San Diego LGBT Community Center.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 1, 2023

If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation. We usually choose the grocery stores and malls that have installed chargers.” Last summer, he drove his Tesla cross country to San Diego.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and San Diego, a combination of green consciousness and enthusiasm for new technology seems to be stirring public interest in the cars. The employees pull into carports that are covered with solar panels and plug their cars into the 100 available charging stations.

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Driivz

MAY 1, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) have installed infrastructure to support more than 12,500 charging stations across the state. Origin is cross-promoting its solar energy system with Hyundai. Australian Utilities Taking the Lead.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When our solar system was very young, there were no planets—only a diffuse disk of gas and dust circled the sun. Some of those planetesimals, as astronomers call them, grew to be hundreds of kilometers across as they swept up more dust and gas within the swirling solar nebula. The Dawn spacecraft used solar-electric propulsion.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Another expectation is that homeowners and businesses will become “ fully electrified ” by replacing oil, propane and gas furnaces with heat pumps along with gas fired stoves as well as installing solar power and battery systems. The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning.

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