Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2021

The Biden Administration announced a series of measures to support rapid offshore wind deployment, including designation of a new wind energy area and targeting the deployment of 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030. New Wind Energy Area. Deploying 30 GW of Offshore Wind by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. West Virginia. West Virginia. West Virginia. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Dominion Energy has hit a major milestone in the construction of its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind ( CVOW ) project. The company has put in place 78 monopile foundations and four offshore substation foundations during the first installation season, surpassing its initial target of 70 monopiles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

Other: West Virginia University Research Corporation aims to focus on the expansion and transformation of the use of coal and coal-based resources, including waste streams, to produce products of high value to the 21st century energy and manufacturing ecosystem. DOE Funding: $1,204,129. DOE Funding: $1,500,000. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

billion contract by Dominion Energy Virginia to help build what will be the largest offshore wind farm in the US, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. contract for the largest US offshore wind farm appeared first on Electrek. more… The post Belgian, Italian firms land $1.1B

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Electrek

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Spain-headquartered renewables giant Siemens Gamesa announced today that it will build a new offshore wind turbine blade factory in Virginia. more… The post The US is getting its first offshore wind blade factory appeared first on Electrek. The $200 million factory will be the first of its kind in the US.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

gigawatt (GW) Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind ( CVOW ) project have left Germany and are headed for Portsmouth. more… The post Huge monopiles built for Virginia’s 2.6 GW offshore wind farm have set sail appeared first on Electrek. The first eight monopiles made for the 2.6

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Electrek

JUNE 1, 2021

Richmond, Virginia-headquartered Dominion Energy is building the Charybdis , the first Jones Act-qualified offshore wind turbine installation vessel in the US. more… The post The US gets a game-changing offshore wind farm installation vessel appeared first on Electrek.

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Electrek

MAY 23, 2024

gigawatt (GW) Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), which will be the US’s largest offshore wind farm, has installed its first monopile foundation. In a major milestone, the 2.6-gigawatt

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Electrek

OCTOBER 31, 2023

gigawatt (GW) Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project – what will become the US’s largest offshore wind farm – just got approved by the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). more… The post The US’s largest offshore wind farm just got the green light appeared first on Electrek.

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Electrek

JUNE 28, 2024

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced an offshore wind Final Sale Notice and auction for 275,000+ acres off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2016

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are working on a new design for 200-meter blades that could enable offshore 50MW wind turbines. Siemens AG and Vestas Wind Systems. —Todd Griffith, lead blade designer on the project and technical lead for Sandia’s Offshore Wind Energy Program.

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Electrek

APRIL 23, 2021

West Virginia’s electric car drivers made a film about why they chose to embrace electric. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022 appeared first on Electrek. In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Texas is expected to add record utility-scale solar in the next two years. more… The post EGEB: No.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

He will coordinate a team of chemists, material scientists, physicists, and engineers from the University of Delaware; University of Nebraska; Northeastern University; Virginia Commonwealth University; the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa; and the Electron Energy Corporation in Landisville, Pa.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

Wind accounted for 2.3%. PJM data shows that peak time for renewable energy generation from wind is generally between 10 p.m. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), US electricity generation in 2010 was 70% fossil fuels (coal 44.9%, natural gas 23.8%); 20% nuclear; and 10% renewable, of which 6.2%

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Richmond, Virginia — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Boeing and NASA researchers are testing a 13-foot-wingspan, 6% scale Blended Wing Body (BWB) model at a subsonic wind tunnel at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia. Boeing is readying the BWB for the next step in maturing the concept—a manned demonstrator. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Historically, prevailing wind shear patterns prohibit cyclones in the Arabian Sea from becoming major storms. The Nature paper suggests that weakening winds have enabled the formation of stronger cyclones in recent years—including storms in 2007 and 2010 that were the first recorded storms to enter the Gulf of Oman.

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Electrek

MARCH 22, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): New York State approves a power cable for Deepwater Wind South Fork offshore wind farm. Virginia nonprofit Give Solar works with Habitat for Humanity to provide solar for Habitat homeowners. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2021

Critical materials are used in many products important to the US economy and energy technologies, such as rare-earth elements used to manufacture high-strength magnets for offshore wind-turbine generators and lithium and cobalt in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Topic 2, Area of Interest 1: Rare Earth Element Separation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2014

solar, photovoltaic, wind, and electric vehicle battery technologies). Virginia Clean Cities at James Madison University of Harrisonburg, Virginia, will receive $450,000 to develop a nationwide Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Opportunity Center consisting of an innovative internet-based resource to grow the domestic fuel cell and hydrogen industry.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 3, 2022

Fossil fuel-producing states and coal companies, led by West Virginia, argued that the EPA does not have the authority to shift electricity generation from coal to renewable sources like wind and solar, according.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2014

Aspects of weather, including wind speed, wind direction, precipitation and temperature, also affect the size of dead zones. The models also account for the influence of variable weather and oceanographic conditions, and predict that these can affect the dead zone area by as much as 38%.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

gigawatt (GW) Kitty Hawk Wind could deliver around $5 billion in economic impact across Virginia – here’s where the project stands. The 180-turbine Kitty Hawk Wind is an offshore wind project proposed in federal waters over 36 miles from Virginia Beach. Kitty Hawk Wind would deliver about $4.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

cents/kWh in West Virginia—a 23.59 Even with the implementation of the smart grid it seems unlikely that we will all be able to buy our power from West Virginia. in West Virginia to $6.12 Two are geographically constrained (hydro and geothermal), placing wind and solar as the front running mass renewable energy choices.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

AES also announced the signing of a letter of intent with CIC to raise an additional $571 million of equity for an approximate 35% interest in its wind generation business. AES, with headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, owns and operates a diverse portfolio of power generation and distribution businesses in 29 countries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The winning teams—Edison2 of Lynchburg, Virginia; X-Tracer of Winterthur, Switzerland; and Li-ion Motors Corp. The X PRIZE Foundation awarded $10 million to three teams who successfully completed the rigorous Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. used to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful, and more efficient. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Preliminary testing at the Virginia Tech Wind Tunnel showed that the smoother curves of the new design can help offset the drag associated with requirements such as bumpers and mirrors. Click to enlarge. Edison2 says that its envisioned new shape of the next generation VLC is an aerodynamic improvement over the angular XPRIZE design.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The Pickens Plan proposes to generate up to 22% of the nation's electricity from wind and supports development of an extra-high voltage transmission system to facilitate that expanded use of renewable electricity generation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. CalCEF/Nexus (Oakland, California) is forming a Qualified Clean Energy Opportunity Zone Fund to deploy solar, wind, energy storage and other clean economy assets. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. High Wind Future: In this scenario, they modified the future case to add wind plants sufficient to produce 20% of generation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

The combustor, produced through an additive manufacturing process known as powder bed fusion (PBF), was subjected to a variety of high-temperature hypersonic flight conditions over the course of 20 days, including one of the longest duration propulsion wind tunnel tests ever recorded for a unit of this kind.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2015

A team of scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University has synthesized a powerful new magnetic material that could reduce the dependence of the United States and other nations on rare earth elements produced by China. The team’s findings will appear in an open-access paper in Applied Physics Letters.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2016

NASA is testing the propulsor, designed by United Technologies Research Center with research conducted by Virginia Polytechnic and State University, in its 8' x 6' Wind Tunnel at NASA Glenn in Cleveland, Ohio. The highly experimental tests have required years of preparation.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Photo: Dominion Energy Virginia Virginia has approved over a dozen new solar projects that will significantly boost Dominion Energy’s clean energy capacity. The construction will support more than 1,600 jobs and generate more than $570 million in economic benefits across Virginia. million homes at peak output.

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Teslarati

JUNE 17, 2022

Rivian R1 vehicles coming from the company’s Normal, Il plant will soon be delivered to customers with a battery fully charged from wind energy. This is due to the company’s plans to build a large-scale wind turbine at its Normal site. “To us, our job isn’t done when our vehicles come off the line.

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