Study Finds Grid Transparency Behind-the-Meter a Challenge for Utilities

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:04:05 +0000

North American electric utilities continue to grapple with the challenge of managing behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs), according to the results of a survey of utility decision-makers published Feb. 15. […]

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5 Ways to Ensure Grids Don’t Become Bottlenecks in the Energy Transition

Credit to Author: Marcus McCarthy| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:50:16 +0000

Meeting ambitious climate targets while transitioning from fossil fuels remains a key priority for businesses, policymakers, and society in general. The good news is that the grid can play a […]

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Siemens Opens New EV Charging Manufacturing Hub In Carrollton, Texas

Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 07:26:30 +0000

Siemens has officially opened the doors to its newest EV charging production facility in Carrollton, Texas, where it will produce EV chargers targeted for the American market. Siemens had just announced back December 2022 that it was retrofitting an 80,000 square foot factory in Carrollton. So, the retrofit only took around 4 months to complete. […]

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A Tipping Point for America’s Grid

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 21:18:04 +0000

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COMMENTARY The American grid is reaching a tipping point. With electric vehicles (EVs) making up 5% of all new vehicle sales last year, there is an urgent need to prepare […]

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The POWER Interview: FREYR Leads Wave of New Battery Manufacturing

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:13:16 +0000

Growth in the energy storage market, including the transportation sector, has spurred a ramp-up in global battery manufacturing and investment in new technologies. Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the U.S. has brought a flurry of announcements from foreign companies eager to build manufacturing plants in America. FREYR, a Norway-based company, late last […]

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Siemens Gamesa Posts Nearly $1 Billion Quarterly Loss

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:04:30 +0000

Siemens Gamesa chief executive Jochen Eickholt acknowledged equipment failures in both the company’s onshore and offshore wind turbines, leading to higher warranty provisions, contributed to a nearly $1 billion net loss for the company in the last three months of 2022. Eickholt on Feb. 2 said the company’s October to December—the group’s fiscal first quarter—loss […]

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Siemens Gamesa Posts Nearly $1 Billion Quarterly Loss

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:04:30 +0000

Siemens Gamesa chief executive Jochen Eickholt acknowledged equipment failures in both the company’s onshore and offshore wind turbines, leading to higher warranty provisions, contributed to a nearly $1 billion net loss for the company in the last three months of 2022. Eickholt on Feb. 2 said the company’s October to December—the group’s fiscal first quarter—loss […]

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Paving The Way For “Made In Ghana” E-Mobility Solutions

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 03:45:31 +0000

The transition to electric mobility is now well underway around the world. In China, for example, the world’s largest vehicle market, fully electric car sales had 26% share of auto sales in September, and 35% had a plug. We see that the European EV market is also heating up. In Europe, fully electric car sales […]

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4 More Big Battery Stories

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:31:11 +0000

The story these days is batteries, batteries, batteries. Scaling up electric vehicle production is all about scaling up batteries, and scaling up the mineral mining and refining essential to batteries. Scaling up renewable energy generation capacity is all about scaling up battery storage capacity to help with the fluctuations in supply. It’s all about the […]

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