Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:57:33 +0000
Electric school buses and other electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid capability can help improve grid services for the whole community, by sharing the kilowatts stored up in their batteries.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:28:08 +0000
In August, there was a big summit for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Harare, Zimbabwe. It was the 44th edition of this summit, with heads of state for 13 out of the 16 member states attending. In preparation for this big summit, the Zimbabwe government spent close to … [continued]
The post Centragrid’s New 25MW Solar PV Plant Shows A Way To Help Quickly Address Zimbabwe’s Electricity Rationing appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:13:42 +0000
Thermal energy storage company Ice Energy has a 25.6 MWh utility-scale energy storage program in the Southern California Edison (SCE) utility district. It’s been in operation for five years and is spread out across 100 customer sites. It’s part of the Southern California Virtual Power Plant (“VPP”) Thermal Storage Project. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:17:29 +0000
In recent days I’ve become aware that a purportedly neutral and data-centric transit organization, the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), has been advancing hydrogen for urban transit in contradiction of global evidence of failure. A contact forwarded me a more detailed study that they’d done for the … [continued]
The post $360M Discrepancy In Brampton Transit Study: Hydrogen Mix Falsely Positioned As Lower Cost Option appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:05:35 +0000
Recently I published a perspective on the Canadian city of Mississauga’s plan to pilot hydrogen buses for their transit system. It included global data on the high cost and low reliability of hydrogen electrolysis and refueling systems and the high cost and low reliability of hydrogen fuel cell buses. Someone … [continued]
The post Mississauga Could Get A Dozen Electric Buses For The Cost Of Five Hydrogen Ones appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:02:58 +0000
Gwendolyn Brown, vice president of communications at the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) in San Francisco, reached out to me at CleanTechnica. She wanted me to be aware of a pending decision before the California Public Utilities Commission regarding access to accurate information about the conditions on the electric grid. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:44:42 +0000
More than seven years after New Hampshire regulators first approved the idea of using community solar to create savings for low-income households, electric bill discounts are finally on the horizon for the first batch of participants. “There has been this rhetoric that we want solar to benefit low-income people, but … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:06:26 +0000
Buncombe County, Water Scarcity, & The Muddy Submerging Waters of Climate Change Starting on Day 4 and moving back to Days 0–3, here’s a look at what’s been happening in the Appalachians after Helene. Day 4 His eyes widened in alarm as I suggested to the kind man in the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:58:33 +0000
For the past year, a preprint paper has been undergoing one of the most public, rancorous and extensive peer-review processes in the history of US academics. Is it on race relations? Tax cuts for the rich? Hollywood starlets? No, it’s on liquified natural gas (LNG) emissions of greenhouse gases. The … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 13:50:49 +0000
A T&E briefing outlines why the 2035 goal is so important and why the EU should not reverse it. 1. Why is it important for the climate, the economy and jobs in Europe? Maintaining the ambition of the EU car CO2 standards, including the 2035 100% zero emission target is … [continued]
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