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CHARGE Officially Opens 1st Off-Grid, Green EV Charging Station In South Africa

December 1, 2024 admin africa, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, grid, Off The Grid, Solar energy, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 02:16:28 +0000

At about this time last year, we wrote about Zero Carbon Charge’s plans to roll out electric vehicle charging stations charged 100% by renewable energy. At that time, they had just announced the start of construction at one of their sites, the start of South Africa’s first national network of … [continued]

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US Grid Operators Kept the Lights on This Summer with More Solar, Storage, & Wind

November 28, 2024 admin clean power, climate change, demand response, electric reliability council of texas (ercot), Energy Storage, ercot, grid, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, research, Solar energy, solar panels, wind energy

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:21:14 +0000

The demand for electricity is generally at its peak during summer afternoons, when many people use their air conditioners. Until this year, the bulk power system — the network of generators and transmission lines — met this demand through hydropower and fossil fuel generation. What a shift this past summer … [continued]

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The Great Grid-Scale Battery Boom Comes To The US

November 25, 2024 admin batteries, California, clean power, element energy, Energy Storage, ercot, grid, grid-scale storage, lg energy solution, second life batteries, texas, usa

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:53:03 +0000

The United States is rapidly installing grid-scale batteries that are helping to prevent power blackouts, known in German as Dunkelflaute, according to The Guardian. From barely any just a few years ago, the US has now installed 20 GW of grid-scale battery storage for its electric grid — equivalent to … [continued]

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BYD Leadership Shining, EV Sales Booming, Toyota Nonsense — 10 Top Cleantech Stories

November 16, 2024 admin batteries, byd, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica top 10, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev sales, green economy, green jobs, grid, Joe Biden, Manufacturing, policy & politics, Smart Grid, Solar energy, toyota

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:15:14 +0000

Quite a lot has happened in the past 10 days. Aside from the demented elephant getting back into the china shop, there are various big stories you may have missed, or (like me) would just benefit from being reminded of. Scroll down below for the stories and some commentary. Note … [continued]

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Behind the Curtain: Power Grid Resilience for Data Centers

November 14, 2024 admin clean power, data centers, energy efficient data centers, green data centers, grid, s&c electric, s&c electric company, SC, Solar energy, Sponsored, wind energy

Credit to Author: Industry Sponsor| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 06:04:49 +0000

By Kyle Julian, Regional Director, Commercial & Industrial Sales, U.S. West Without data centers, life as we know it would collapse. That may sound like hyperbole, but our entire digital economy relies on data centers. But it turns out that data centers use a lot of electricity. In fact, the … [continued]

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