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Charging Microgrids: Progress for Electric Trucks, Challenges Remain

December 26, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, Oil, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:24:10 +0000

Key Takeaways: Microgrids speed power availability and deployment of freight truck charging Specific charging challenges face microgrid deployment that must be overcome There are federal, state, and non-profit organizations that can assist As previous articles have made clear, microgrids, strategically designed for truck stops and depots, are a path forward … [continued]

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Heat Pumps For Electric Buses Blow Another Meme Out Of Water

December 25, 2024 admin batteries, buses, California, Canada, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, heat pumps, hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, Oil

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:27:42 +0000

Every time I publish anything on electric buses — and I’ve published a lot on them recently — hydrogen bus fans point out that in the west, diesel heaters are often included in buses for winter time use. They say that as if the waste heat from fuel cells was … [continued]

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Another Milestone For Solar Panels That Produce Green Hydrogen

December 25, 2024 admin clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, green hydrogen, hydrogen, industrial, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:13:05 +0000

A US startup is producing green hydrogen from solar panels that deploy billions of specialized nanoparticles activated by sunlight, with scaleup anticipated by 2026.

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Germany Embraces Balkonkraftwerke — Balcony Solar For Apartments

December 25, 2024 admin balcony solar, clean power, consumer technology, green economy, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar panels

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:23:54 +0000

Balcony solar is a big hit in Germany, which as seen 200 MW of new balcony based solar added this year alone.

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New Flow Battery To Take Up Housekeeping In Derelict Oil Tanks

December 25, 2024 admin circular economy, clean power, Energy, Energy Storage, flow batteries, flow battery, long-duration energy storage, quino energy, recycle, renewable energy, repurpose, reuse, Solar energy, waste reduction, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:48:35 +0000

The US startup Quino aims to demonstrate that its new flow battery platform can repurpose former oil tanks for wind and solar energy storage.

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Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure — Hyzon Edition

December 25, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, hydrogen trucks, hyzon, investment, Manufacturing, Shipping, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:53:40 +0000

The other day I recorded the annual predictions wrap-up with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid of Redefining Energy. I’d joined the fun last year for the first time after starting up the Redefining Energy—Tech sub-channel, judging their predictions from the previous year and adding predictions of my own. One of … [continued]

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Rooftop Solar Kill Switch, or Sometimes the Sun Shines Too Much

December 24, 2024 admin Australia, australia solar, australia solar energy, clean power, grid, Solar energy

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:08:20 +0000

As Australia adds massive amounts of rooftop solar power per year, the discourse is turning from: “we need coal/nuclear because there isn’t enough solar to feed into the grid” to “we need to switch off solar to preserve grid stability.” The point is, though, that we do, but only as … [continued]

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Powering Data Centers Is An Existential Challenge

December 24, 2024 admin AI, clean power, data centers, green economy, grid, microgrid, microgrids, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:27:28 +0000

The explosion in the number of data centers is ramping up demand for electricity. What is the best way to meet that demand?

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Prefabricated Façade with Integrated Solar PV

December 23, 2024 admin bipv, clean power, fraunhofer, fraunhofer institute for solar energy systems, fraunhofer ise, GERMANY, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:57:31 +0000

Fraunhofer ISE and Fraunhofer UMSICHT are out there innovating once more, as they tend to do. Could their latest advancement break through in a market that’s been hyped for at least a decade but never come to much? The sector I’m referring to is building-integrated solar PV (BIPV). In this … [continued]

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Canadians Can Cripple Hydrogen Greenwashing, But What About EU, USA, & Oz?

December 23, 2024 admin Australia, blue hydrogen, Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Energy, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green hydrogen, greenwashing, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, policy & politics, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:04:47 +0000

Recently I took a stroll through the implications of Canada’s anti-greenwashing improvements delivered through the truth in advertising provisions of Bill C-59. Originally, it merely caused all oil and gas firms and their lobbying and propaganda groups to magically disappear their entire social media presence and large parts of their … [continued]

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