By [email protected] (Eric C. Evarts) Mercedes-Benz plans to introduce the second in its new EQ line of electric vehicles, the EQV van, at next month’s Frankfurt auto show. The company says that a 100-kwh battery pack under the floor will deliver 250 miles of range on the European driving cycle. Mercedes has not confirmed whether…
By Kelsey Misbrener Johnson Controls announced a partnership with Capital Dynamics to increase the amount of capital available for customers in North America working on solar or battery storage projects. The agreement will grant easier access to funding for Johnson Controls customers using a Power Purchase Agreement for projects of varying sizes, starting at $1…
By [email protected] California regulators want to direct $100 million in state energy storage incentives to a new class of disadvantaged customers: those living in parts of the state at the highest risk of deadly wildfires. The California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision last week on the “equity budget” within the Self-Generation Incentive Program,…
By [email protected] Batteries paired with solar plants have gained momentum in sunny locales, but a market for shifting wind generation using battery storage has so far failed to materialize. Developer GlidePath Power Solutions, however, sees a path forward for wind-plus-storage in one of the country’s most competitive power markets, announcing the acquisition of 149 megawatts…
UL announced that 4R Energy Corporation, a joint venture of Nissan Motors and Sumitomo Corporation focusing on the effective reuse of EV batteries for energy storage systems, is the first organization worldwide to be certified to UL 1974, the Standard for Evaluation for Repurposing Batteries. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Electric Vehicles…
By [email protected] NEC Energy Solutions is building momentum with its grid battery offerings for municipal utilities in New England. Two years after a pathbreaking storage project with the Sterling Municipal Light Department in Massachusetts, NEC has added five more contracts in that state and one in Maine. The projects will add up to 20 megawatts…
By Michelle Froese GlidePath Power Solutions, an independent energy storage developers, announced its acquisition of a 149-MW portfolio of wind farms in North Texas. The transaction adds to GlidePath’s operating portfolio of U.S. wind, solar, and storage projects ,and provides the company with a unique opportunity to optimize the performance of the wind farms though…
By Richard A. Kessler in Fort Worth GlidePath believes adding on-site battery storage systems at eight wind projects acquired from Exelon will strengthen reliability of supply in the local grid Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
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By Kelsey Misbrener Energy Storage Solutions (E22) and Alencon Systems have partnered to offer a unique, turnkey DC-coupled solar-plus-storage solution. The integrated solution offered by E22 is called the DC POWER OPTIMISER. The DC POWER OPTIMISER consists of a DC-to-DC bidirectional converter, Alencon’s Bi-Directional Optimizer for Storage Systems — the BOSS, connected to a battery,…
By Michelle Froese Artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) startup, mCloud, announced a deal to provide performance analytics for 35 GE wind turbines. Leveraging data from hundreds of turbine sensors, mCloud says it will apply its proprietary AI analytics solution to predict annual energy production and turbine longevity, enhancing output while reducing operations…
By [email protected] (Bengt Halvorson) Before the Toyota Mirai, the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, and the Hyundai Nexo faced off with the current crop of electric cars, there was a hydrogen fuel-cell e-bike—the Alpha, which also demonstrated that with hydrogen it could go farther than battery-boosted e-bikes. Now France’s Pragma Industries has introduced Alpha2.0, a new…
By mmillikin The 2019 Audi e-tron SUV is the first pure battery-electric vehicle to earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) 2019 Top Safety Pick+ rating, the highest rating awarded by the nonprofit organization. In developing the e-tron, engineers designed a battery pack with performance, longevity and safety in mind. The battery pack is…
By Blagojce Krivevski The 2019 Audi e-tron SUV, the first fully electric Audi model, has earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s 2019 “Top Safety Pick+” award, the nonprofit’s highest designation. The 2019 Audi e-tron is the first battery-electric vehicle to earn a 2019 Top Safety Pick+ award. In developing the e-tron, engineers designed a…
The Solaris Bus & Coach company has won another zero-emission order for Solaris Urbino 12 electric buses in Italy. Following the agreement recently signed with ATM Milan, in line with which up to 250 vehicles of this type will be delivered in Milan, the Polish manufacturer has received an order from the transport operator ACTV…