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Electric Truck Charging’s Cost & Price Flexibility Are Its Superpower

December 28, 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, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, Oil, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:02:46 +0000

Key takeaways Early adopters of charging microgrids can gain a competitive edge with flexible pricing Solar-powered microgrids cut costs with zero marginal cost energy Collaboration on green corridors boosts savings and revenues First movers with electric truck charging microgrids have a superpower, which is much more flexible energy pricing options … [continued]

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2024 Was A Productive Year For My Decarbonization Efforts

December 28, 2024 admin buildings, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, climate change, electric trucks, Energy, Energy Storage, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, India, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, policy research, renewable energy, research, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:12:50 +0000

It’s the time of year when people publish retrospectives on the year and start thinking about the year ahead. As so much of my work ends up in CleanTechnica, I thought it would be useful to provide my retrospective here. On a purely personal note, I’ve been told over and … [continued]

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Truck Charging: Start Small, Scale Smart

December 27, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, Oil, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:02:18 +0000

Key Takeaways: Trucks won’t all be electric immediately, so don’t build charging for 100% electric Design charging microgrids for standardized increments of capacity Analyze all sites and design increments that are good enough Gaining the benefits of electric trucks, including significantly reduced maintenance and operations costs and increasing market share, … [continued]

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Climate Tech Is Reducing Emissions And Improving Urban Landscapes And Lives

December 27, 2024 admin building decarbonization, buildings, climate tech, decarbonization, energy efficiency, green economy, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment, Manufacturing

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:07:12 +0000

If we hope to see a climate-hardy world in the years to come, we must recast the way we design our urban environments — they must become ecologically sound and robust sustainable spaces. Possible pathways to achieve such goals are winding and tenuous, sure, and an array of novel innovations … [continued]

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Bitcoin Is Going to Be the Nail in Our Climate Coffin

December 27, 2024 admin bitcoin, clean power, Coal, Fossil Fuels, green economy, natural gas, Solar energy, tesla, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 04:50:13 +0000

I realize that this article is not going to be popular with everyone. Bitcoin is a kind of tech financial fantasy, whereby many tech fans have come to the conclusion that we can live in some kind of financial utopia divorced from inflation and economic woes if we follow this … [continued]

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What Are The Implications Of $66/kWh Battery Packs In China?

December 27, 2024 admin batteries, bess, carbon emissions, catl, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric cars, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Europe, Fossil Fuels, GERMANY, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, investment, Manufacturing, Oil, renewable energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 01:21:04 +0000

The Power Construction Corporation of China drew 76 bidders for its tender of 16 GWh of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery energy storage systems (BESS), according to reports. Bids averaged $66.3/kWh, with 60 bids under $68.4/kWh. The tender, covering supply, system design, installation guidance, 20-year maintenance, and safety features, targets … [continued]

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Battery Technology News From Sionic, Group14, And Paraclete

December 27, 2024 admin batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, green economy, group14, paraclete energy, sionic energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 21:25:18 +0000

Battery news is always welcome, but much of it seldom filters down into commercial production. Today, silicon anodes are in the news.

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Eversource Transitions From Gas Company To Geothermal Company In Framingham

December 27, 2024 admin eversource, geothermal, green economy, heat pumps, heet, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:36:41 +0000

Framingham, Massachusetts is the first city in the US where a gas utility is now offering geothermal services to its customers.

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Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure — First Mode Edition

December 26, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric mining trucks, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, hydrogen trucks, investment, Manufacturing, Mining

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:16:48 +0000

In the past few weeks, three hydrogen transportation firms have declared bankruptcy. First in the set of dominos was German firm Quantron, which left IKEA Austria holding a fleet of its hydrogen delivery vans as well as a fleet of its inferior-to-competitors’ vans without warranty, parts, or maintenance. The other … [continued]

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