Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2023

The EIA forecasts that wind and solar will together account for 16% of total electricity generation in 2023, up from 14% in 2022 and 8% in 2018. Increased use of renewable energy will help reduce electricity generation from coal and natural gas power plants, according to the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Electricity generated by solar panels installed across nine thousand square metres of roofing at Asko’s regional warehouse is being used to split water, producing emissions-free hydrogen fuel and oxygen. In addition to solar, Asko is a major industrial wind power producer.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Reading through Scott’s long exchange with an Extinction Rebellion activist, and especially seeing the activist repeat clear misinformation regarding wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles, I got to thinking about how people end up consuming and believing such misinformation. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The bid adds to the $2 billion invested by the company so far in projects such as the Avonlie solar farm and the Flyers Creek wind farm in New South Wales, and the Port Augusta renewable energy farm in South Australia, the largest hybrid wind-solar farm in the southern hemisphere.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2021

It is the world's first hydrogen-powered boat, capable of producing its own hydrogen on-board from seawater thanks to solar, wind and hydro power. The partnership started in 2017, when Toyota France decided to sponsor the Energy Observer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2020

Other elements of the note: BNEF cut the global solar demand forecast for 2020 from 121-152GW to 108-143GW. This could make 2020 the first down year for solar capacity addition since at least the 1980s. The exception is wind, where delivery and build schedules are tight and specialized equipment is rented for a limited time, BNEF says.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

A California-based company aims to add curbside EV charging and solar and wind power to streetlights. Beam Global's BeamSpot incorporates solar panels and small wind turbines to generate some of its own energy, with built-in battery storage to maximize use of it.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

San Diego-based Beam Global (Nasdaq: BEEM) has launched EV chargers powered by solar, wind, and battery storage that replace streetlights.

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Electrek

JULY 19, 2024

Solar and wind now make up more than 20% of total US electrical generating capacity, according to new data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

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Electrek

MARCH 1, 2024

A 540-megawatt (MW) hybrid floating solar–floating offshore wind farm is going to be developed off Italy's southern coast, in the Ionian Sea.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It is, however, a challenge that is being made all the greater as we continue to decentralize power generation with more distributed, variable and inflexible sources, such as wind and solar. Increasingly, wind and solar are replacing fossil fuels as our principle source of energy.

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Electrek

JULY 30, 2024

Wind and solar generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU during the first six months of 2024 for the first time ever in a half-year period.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The latest US EIA and FERC data reflect a decade of explosive solar and wind growth – here’s how it breaks down.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2021

Both primary energy consumption and carbon emissions from energy use fell at their fastest rate seen since the Second World War, while renewable energy continued its trajectory of strong growth, with wind and solar power recording their largest ever annual increase. Key highlights: Primary energy consumption fell by 4.5%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill. It is first time that both sources of renewable hydrogen will be used in the same project.

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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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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Wind-tunnel testing has proven that the Lightyear 0 is the most aerodynamic production car in the world, Lightyear claims. Testing conducted at the FKFS wind tunnels in Stuttgart, Germany, under WLTP protocols confirmed a 0.175 coefficient of drag (Cd) for the solar-assisted electric car, Lightyear said Thursday in a press release.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2022

In addition, the international research and development team is working on the low-cost iron-salt battery, the properties of which make it particularly suitable for ensuring base load capability for wind and solar farms. Vanadium redox flow battery cell. The cells of a vanadium redox flow battery each consist of two half cells.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Further, according to Rystad Energy, Big Oil is expected to pump in $166B into new oil and gas ventures over the next five years, thus dwarfing the currently specified outlay of just $18B (less than 10% of capex) for solar and wind energy projects. Good case in point: Italian multinational oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A. 2 Total SA.

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Electrek

JANUARY 16, 2024

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that solar and wind will lead US power generation growth for the next two years in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook.

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The power sector has become less carbon-intensive as natural gas-fired generation displaced coal-fired and petroleum-fired generation and as the noncarbon sources of electricity generation—especially renewables such as wind and solar—have grown. In 2005, noncarbon sources accounted for 28% of the US electricity mix.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Tesla is calling for more energy installers to be certified on its products as the company winds down its own solar installations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The demonstration plant will produce green MCH by combining the medium-sized electrolyzer with a 250-kilowatt solar power system in Queensland, which is ideal for solar power generation. The electrolyzer realizes increased efficiency in MCH production with electrodes which are nearly the largest by size that is used industrially.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The feed-stock reduction is achieved primarily by supplementing the process with oxygen and hydrogen produced by water electrolysis units that are powered by clean wind and solar generated electricity. DGF replaces the coal gasification used by others with biomass gasification and natural gas reforming.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2019

Over the long term, hydrogen-methane technology offers a further advantage: it allows surplus wind and solar power generated during peaks to be stored, and these surpluses will see a sharp increase as the share of this renewable energy grows. —Professor Buchal.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In AW-Energy’s concept, wave energy complements solar power production to enable large-scale green hydrogen. Our WaveRoller process enables a green hydrogen plant to achieve much higher production capacities at reduced costs by complimenting wave energy with solar or wind. —Christopher Ridgewell, CEO of AW-Energy Oy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

Investment in new large- and small-scale solar projects rose to a record-breaking $120 billion, up 33% from the first half of 2021. Wind project financing was up 16% from 1H 2021, at $84 billion. China posted remarkable investment growth in both wind and solar project finance, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2022

As part of the agreement, bp will capture and evaluate solar and wind data from 8,000 km 2 of land—an area more than five times the size of Greater London. These projects will build on our gas business, and bring wind, solar and green hydrogen together in a distinctive and integrated way supporting Oman’s low carbon energy goals.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

Under the new contract, around 65% of the electricity supply comes from hydropower, while the remainder comes from solar power, wind power and other renewable sources. At the Ghent plant in Belgium, Volvo Cars installed 15,000 solar panels in 2018, the first large-scale introduction of solar energy in its global manufacturing network.

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Electrek

JUNE 3, 2024

Australian company 5B’s modular solar array unfolds like an accordion and is designed to endure extreme weather and harsh environments.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The composite blocks can be made from low-cost and locally sourced materials, including the excavated soil at the construction site, but can also utilize waste materials such as mine tailings, coal combustion residuals (coal ash), and fiberglass from decommissioned wind turbine blades.

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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

MARCH 11, 2020

Stored renewable hydrogen can provide power when wind and solar availability are limited due to prevailing weather conditions and time of day, as well as provide seasonal energy storage from renewable energy sources. Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) is a joint venture between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and Hitachi, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Because these units can start and stop quickly and operate at partial loads, they have become increasingly important in areas with high shares of renewable electricity generation from wind and solar. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, January 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2021

In a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , they report that using nuclear or solar/wind electricity, the stand-alone FT fuel production (Naphtha, jet, diesel) from various plant designs can reduce WTW GHG emissions by 90–108%, relative to petroleum fuels. Zang et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2022

Other key findings from the May 2022 STEO forecast include: Solar and wind power will provide 11.1% Solar and wind are the only energy sources that will increase their share of US electricity generation this summer. of US electricity generation this summer, up from 9.6% in summer 2021.

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