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Google Maps Now Offers EV Charger Locations & Intelligence-Powered Summaries

April 23, 2024 admin 0 Comments Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, google, google maps

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:16:45 +0000

If you drive an electric vehicle that’s not a Tesla, then you have experienced the tension that comes with leaving home for trips and wondering if there will be a charger on your route. We know that there is no retail category where a driver can be confident that an … [continued]

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POWER Notebook: New Projects For Energy Storage, Community Solar, Electric Buses; Google Announces PPA

October 5, 2023 admin Arizona, Canada, depcom power, electrification, Energy Storage, google, hitachi energy, New York, news, North Carolina, ppa, Quebec, Quebec City, Renewables, Solar, tucson electric power, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:32:13 +0000

An Arizona utility plans to build a battery energy storage system (BESS) that will help it store more of the region’s abundant solar energy, enabling the power to be used […]

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The POWER Interview: Supporting Real-Time Visibility Along the Power Grid

July 19, 2023 admin astrid atkinson, camus energy, ders, google, monitoring, power, power grid, Renewables, visibility

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:02:02 +0000

The power grid is stressed. Aging infrastructure is a problem, exacerbated by extreme weather events that increasingly threaten reliability and result in outages. The integration of more renewable energy resources, […]

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Google Installing 500 Megawatts of Solar for Environmental Justice

May 20, 2023 admin clean power, community solar, edp renewables, environmental justice, google, pjm, pjm interconnection, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 13:19:22 +0000

Solar power is not just for rich people, but it’s not free and you typically need to show a decent credit score to finance it. As with many things in life, the less wealthy people in society are left behind a bit as we transition into this cleaner, more financially sensible (in the long term) […]

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Google & LevelTen Make Renewable Energy PPAs Easy As Pie

March 19, 2023 admin clean power, general motors, google, green economy, investment, levelten energy, McDonalds, power purchase agreement, power purchase agreement (ppa), power purchase agreements, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:55:57 +0000

Google & LevelTen Energy are dialing the renewable energy industry up to 11 with a new streamlined system for negotiating power purchase agreements.

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Sol Systems & Google Team Up To Bring Clean Energy To Low Income Communities

March 13, 2023 admin clean power, google, North Carolina, sol systems, Solar energy, SOUTH CAROLINA

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:15:05 +0000

Sol Systems is partnering with Google to bring more renewable energy to the Carolinas in a way that promotes social justice.

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Volvo OTA Updates Pass 1 Million Mark, XC90 Recharge Earns Highest IIHS Safety Rating

February 28, 2023 admin cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, google, google assistant, hybrid electric cars, iihs, iihs ratings, ota updates, over the air updates, phev, volvo, volvo xc90

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:29:34 +0000

The Volvo XC90 and XC90 Recharge both received a Top Safety Pick + rating from IIHS following this year’s stricter testing protocols.

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Google, Ford, GM, & Solar Companies Partner To Promote Scaling Of Virtual Power Plants

January 13, 2023 admin batteries, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ford, gm, google, grid, Smart Grid, Solar energy, virtual power plants, vpp

Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:38:43 +0000

A group of heavy hitters, including Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker, has formed a coalition that aims to scale up the market for virtual power plants in a bid to increase the resiliency of the grid and help decarbonize the electric sector. Virtual power plants, or […]

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Google Adds Sustainability Features To Search

October 3, 2022 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, google, sustainability

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:00:37 +0000

Yesterday, I got an e-mail from Google’s press people telling me about some cool new options and features in Google Search. They don’t only raise awareness of sustainable things people can do, either. They give people the knowledge to save money and protect the environment, and then leave the decisions in users’ hands so they […]