Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A microgrid based on renewable energies with hydrogen-powered fuel cells for emergency and peak power as well as hydrogen combustion engines can meet the special energy requirements of port facilities.

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Hydrogen Climate Supplies Power Grid 459

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

As part of this effort, by the early 2030s every all-new Nissan vehicle offering in key markets—Japan, China, the US and Europe—will be electrified. Nissan anticipates increased collaboration with the energy sector to support the decarbonization of power grids; and. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Ford Motor Company announced a strategic collaboration that will demonstrate the integration of home appliance technology, plug-in vehicle and a renewable energy source to achieve an energy-efficient lifestyle. Most of today’s residential electrical load on the grid occurs in the daytime hours.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Arun Raju, director of the Center for Renewable Natural Gas at UC Riverside, recently received a $146,000 grant from Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) to examine the proposed 100% Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) and explore options that can help achieve emission reduction goals more efficiently and at lower costs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Honda e units will be used as part of a car-sharing fleet in a trial which uses the Honda e’s bi-directional charging function to feed energy back to the grid when the vehicles are not in use for sharing. To allow bi-directional charging, Honda is also providing 35 Honda Power Manager units. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2022

To this end, the use of the first hydrogen-powered fuel cell (FC) mobile retail vehicle will be implemented. FH2R has been constructed with a renewable energy-powered 10MW-class hydrogen production unit. FH2R can produce as much as 1,200 Nm 3 of hydrogen per hour (rated power operation) using renewable energy.

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Toyota Fuel Hydrogen Vehicles 435

Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2023

Rolls-Royce has approved its mtu Kinetic PowerPacks, based on the mtu Series 4000 and 1600 diesel engines, for use with renewable diesel (HVO/Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) and the other synthetic diesel fuels of the EN15940 standard. Part of the energy stored in the flywheel is used to drive the generator that begins producing electrical power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2010

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt unveiled the challenge, the “GE ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid,” in San Francisco 13 July. The global challenge invites technologists, entrepreneurs and start-ups to share their best ideas and come together to build the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21 st century.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A team led by Raymond Borges Hink at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a method using blockchain to protect communications between electronic devices in the electric grid, preventing cyberattacks and cascading blackouts. The work is summarized in a new technical report from ORNL.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

In the future thyssenkrupp’s electrolysis plants will be able to act as large-scale buffers to stabilize the power grid and compensate fluctuations quickly and flexibly. Operators can now link their plants to the German electricity market via E.ON’s virtual power plant. With this we have achieved a further important goal.

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Water Hydrogen Market Production 337

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

If only incremental increases in renewable energy resources are introduced across the grid, electrolytic hydrogen will not become an environmentally sustainable solution. He looked at three different resources that forecast the future composition of the US electrical power grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

The aim of charge@work is to design a micro smart grid (MSG) capable of supplying the EV fleet with electricity produced exclusively from renewable sources. Rose sees a host of advantages in decentralized power generation, but none more significant than being able to secure supply.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2022

This technology can help enable a centralized power infrastructure to load balance, transport and store renewable energy through the EV, mobile device and IoT markets, as well as provide customer reliability. Oldenburg, a Managing Director specializing in renewables investing at Carlyle. —J.B.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2025

Modern power grids cant run without transformers, which step voltages up and down for distribution from power plants to power stations and on to homes and businesses. Whats worse, the way we use the power grid is stressing transformers even more. And yet, Charette wrote most of the millions of U.S.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

SunHouse at Easton Park will be a small part of the community featuring homes equipped with Tesla Solar and Powerwall, the company’s home battery storage system. These directives build upon the reforms passed this session to increase power generation capacity & ensure the reliability of the Texas power grid.

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Neighborhood Austin Solar Renewable 145

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2022

By 2028, ONE Circle will drive down carbon emissions by 45% by onshoring its supply chain and integrating materials refinement with its Massachusetts-based partner 6K Energy into its manufacturing processes, while leveraging renewable energy for 50% of its power needs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2011

BYD and the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) have finished construction on what may be the world’s largest battery energy storage station. While there are renewable generation systems of this scale in service today, there are no battery systems of this size, the partners noted. billion RMB).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

The new company will play its part with energy offerings from renewable sources and smart charging solutions. The power offered will be Volkswagen Naturstrom generated in a CO 2-free way. 100% of this power comes from renewable sources such as hydropower plants and its origin has been certified by TÜV.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

The carport will enable NSA Mid-South to recharge its current fleet of 17 electric vehicles with renewable electricity in approximately four hours, while reducing demand on the commercial power grid.

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Solar Power Powered Charging 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

ORNL’s wireless charging technology transferred power between the truck and a charging pad across the 11-inch gap using two electromagnetic coupling coils at the demonstration. The system transferred electricity from the power grid to the vehicle battery terminals at more than 92% efficiency.

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Charging PHEV Grid Energy Storage 380

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Fraunhofer ESK is developing underlying communication methods for a uniform energy management system for power grids and electric vehicles.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 24, 2010

Last Tuesday and Wednesday I lucked out and landed another volunteer slot on a solar installation gig with my old pals from GRID Alternatives. Tags: citizen volunteer climate change environment renewable energy solar power GRID Alternatives. Check out my slide show after the jump -. Click to view slideshow.

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Grid Installation Solar Climate Change 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2022

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) focused on the development of long-term supply of low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power in steel production, helping accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition. This will increasingly require the use of electricity from renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2011

On Maui, 15% of the electricity supply is already generated by renewable energy, and there are plans to increase this percentage going forward. Part of the demonstration plan includes utilization of the EVs for grid-balancing services ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

By rapidly ramping up and down in response to fluctuations in wind and solar power, the technology will enable the integration of more renewable resources into the power grid, GE says. The FlexEfficiency 50 Combined Cycle Power Plant. —Paul Browning, vice president thermal products for GE Power & Water.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A quarter of the worlds renewable-energy projects may be delayed while awaiting transformers to connect them to local grids, according to the Wood MacKenzie report. And its not just renewable-energy projects. And its not just renewable-energy projects.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The CTL study was conducted using data collected by the international office supplier Staples, as well as ISO New England, the nonprofit firm that runs New England’s electric power grid. In such a setup, truck owners would be paid by utility firms for the power services they provide.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Specific objectives include reducing distribution circuit peak load, minimizing emissions, enabling greater utilization of renewable energy sources and improving power quality and grid stability. The project also aims to help residents better manage and reduce energy consumption during periods of high demand.

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Li-ion Grid Supplies Hawaii 252

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

As part of the EU-funded H2FUTURE project, partners voestalpine, VERBUND, Siemens, Austrian Power Grid, K1-MET and TNO are researching into the industrial production of green hydrogen as a means of replacing fossil fuels in steel production over the long term.

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Hydrogen Production CO2 Power Grid 221

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2019

Biofuels will be an essential part of delivering the energy transition and Brazil is leading the way in showing how they can be used at scale, reducing emissions from transport. Around 70% of the vehicles in the country are already able to run on ethanol and the country’s demand for ethanol is estimated to increase by around 70% by 2030.

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Brazil Carbon 2018 Grid 339

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources has agreed to acquire an operational geothermal renewable energy power plant in the Upper Rhine Valley at Insheim, Germany, through the acquisition of 100% of the shares in the entity which owns and operates the plant. The geothermal power plant in Insheim, Upper Rhine Valley, Germany. Brine offtake.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

Chubu Electric Power Co., together with Toyota City, have launched a “virtual power plant” demonstration project, which aims to achieve the local production and consumption of renewable energy. Denso Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Turbine and Systems Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2013

The funding is part of a £35-million (US$52-million) fund announced in April 2012 that aims to encourage innovation in the low carbon sector, help bring a range of new and innovative low carbon products to market, create export opportunities and help the UK meet its carbon targets.

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Engine 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2013

Power supply, building systems, intelligent power grids, and information and communication technologies will interact optimally. A multifunctional urban district will be created in Aspern, which is located in the northeastern part of Vienna. The company will start work 1 October.

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Austria Power Grid Grid Building 239

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Siemens suggests abandoning a fixed target for renewable energies and concentrating on the CO 2 reduction goal. Relying on a higher share of efficient, low-emission combined cycle power plants and wind energy could save €150 billion (US$200 billion) by 2030 while attaining the same CO 2 targets, Siemens says. Source: Siemens.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2017

With wind turbines located on the grounds of the plant, the BMW Battery Storage Farm Leipzig links decentralized captive production from renewable energies with local energy storage and an industrial consumer. When there is a surplus of power from renewable energies, large-scale battery storage can relieve the grid by absorbing electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2011

As part of the MOU, HE plans to purchase four 9FB gas turbines from GE before the end of 2013, including two that will incorporate FlexEfficiency technology. By rapidly ramping up and down in response to fluctuations in wind and solar power, the technology will enable the integration of more renewable resources into the power grid.

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