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Ford Teaches Electric Car Drivers How To Drive in the Snow & Cold

December 17, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean transport, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, ford, ford f-150 lightning, ford mustang mach e, smartphone apps

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 04:10:48 +0000

As we enter the season of extreme cold and snow, let me, a Floridian, tell you what you should do to protect your car and get the most out of your electric vehicle. Okay, no, I’m close to useless in this regard, with very little experience driving in extreme cold … [continued]

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Using Hot Water to Balance the Grid

December 17, 2024 admin 0 Comments agl, arena, Australia, australian renewable energy agency (arena), demand response, energy efficiency, grid, heat pump water heaters, heat pumps, Smart Grid, smart meters, south australia

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:42:15 +0000

The humble electric hot water system, hidden usually in a corner of the garage, or even sometimes stuck outside the house in Australia, is being repurposed to balance the grid. For years, we have used tariff 33 to switch on our hot water systems at night for lower-cost electricity from … [continued]

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New Report Establishes Baseline for Clean Energy Deployment in Energy Communities

December 17, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment tax credit (itc), lawrence berkeley national laboratory, Manufacturing, market research, policy & politics, policy research, production tax credit, research, Solar energy, solar investment tax credit, wind energy, wind production tax credit

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:17:57 +0000

For the first time, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 included place-based federal tax incentives for projects located in “Energy Communities,” which might alter the economic equation of where projects should be located. Storage projects may be eligible for a 10-point increase in the Investment Tax Credit (e.g., from 30% … [continued]

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US DOE — Flurry of Solar & Wind Power Announcements

December 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, heat pumps, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, lighting, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, Puerto Rico, recycling, Smart Grid, Solar energy, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy, wind energy technologies office (weto), wind turbines

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:58:00 +0000

As Joe Biden’s time leading the United States approaches an end, various government agencies have been sprinting to get things done before they are at risk of being dropped and forgotten. Rather than try to cover each of these separately, let’s quickly roll through some of the announcements, and you … [continued]

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Wind & Solar Researcher: “We Are Actually Trying to Use the Natural Variability Itself to Address the Variability.”

December 14, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, massachusetts institute of technology (mit), research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:52:43 +0000

Deciding where to build a solar or wind farm? MIT engineers show how detailed mapping of weather conditions and energy demand can guide optimization for siting renewable energy installations. Prior to now, there were few integrated sources for combining data from individual developers or utilities, which made it more guesswork … [continued]

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Inside The Heart Of The Magnetocaloric Heat Pump Of The Future

December 12, 2024 admin 0 Comments ames national laboratory, buildings, consumer technology, efficient heat pumps, elastocaloric cooling, electric heat pumps, energy efficiency, green economy, heat pumps, home energy management, hydrofluorocarbons, magnetoelectric heat pump, oak ridge national lab, ozone layer, refrigerants

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:38:03 +0000

Researchers at Ames National Laboratory are have reportedly cracked the code for the energy efficient, refrigerant-free magnetocaloric heat pump of the future.

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A Boston-Area Family Shifts Their 18th Century Home Off Fossil Fuels

December 9, 2024 admin 0 Comments buildings, energy efficiency, heat pumps, home energy efficiency, Massachusetts

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:32:52 +0000

Is it really possible for homeowners to recreate a traditional Colonial New England home so that it uses renewable energy sources? A residential couple who live outside Boston wondered the same thing. How could they get off fossil fuels and do so in a way that made sense for their … [continued]

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Next-Gen Batteries, US Government Efficiency Improvement, Marine & Offshore Wind Research — US DOE News

December 8, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, eos energy storage, grid resilience, lithium-ion batteries, marine energy, offshore wind energy, Pennsylvania, policy & politics, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:37:08 +0000

The US Department of Energy continues to roll out great cleantech news as we approach the end of the year and the end of an epic presidential term for clean energy, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles. I’m going to roll through four stories from the past two days to catch … [continued]

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An Environmental & Budgetary Defense Of The F-35

December 3, 2024 admin air force (usaf), autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, elon musk, energy efficiency, Military, u.s. military, us air force

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:59:55 +0000

In recent posts to his social media site, Elon Musk took aim at a tough target: the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning II. Not only is it stealthy (something Musk claims to have a workaround for), but he also thinks it’s a monetary boondoggle that his unofficial “government agency” should try to get … [continued]

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AI and Energy: A New Horizon for Powering Our Future

December 2, 2024 admin ai challenges, Artificial Intelligence, battery energy storage, digital twin, energy efficiency, energy security, energy transition, grid management, iiot power, inflation reduction act, natural gas consumption, power, renewable energy, Renewables, Technology, trends

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:57:29 +0000

The energy industry finds itself in the midst of a transformative era. In 2023 alone, a record 31 GW of solar energy capacity were installed—a 55% increase from 2022—while battery energy storage systems

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