SACRAMENTO : The California Energy Commission (CEC) announced on Monday that $17.5 million is available to expand public electric vehicle (EV) charging in 13 rural counties. Incentives available through the new Inland Communities Incentive Project will cover up to 75 percent of EV charging equipment costs.More than a third of the funding is dedicated to […]
Woods Bagot Imagines Electric Vehicle Charging Stations as Drive-In Cinemas
Architecture studio Woods Bagot has designed a concept for electric vehicle charging stations for Downtown Los Angeles that could double as drive-in movie theatres. Called Re-Charge LA, the project imagines how electric vehicle charging stations could become visitor destinations. It envisions a digital screen that could be lowered to form a canopy for the cars […]
Fluence Signs 1.5 GW of New Contracts to Optimize Trading of Renewable & Energy Storage Assets in Australia
Fluence Trading Platform now optimizing nearly 18% of all grid-scale wind and solar energy assets in the NEM. ARLINGTON, VA, USA : Fluence, a leading provider of energy storage technology, services and bidding optimization software, today announced that it has secured approximately 1.5 GW of new wind, solar and battery energy storage contracts for its […]
Study Suggests Fast-Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles Should be Expanded
A group of engineers proposed an increase in the number of fast-charging stations for electric vehicles as businesses and campuses begin their plans for a post-pandemic world. The suggestion depends on a study of charging patterns for electric vehicles on the University of California San Diego campus between early January and late May of 2020 […]
Retrofit and Ccommunity Energy Projects to Add 1,200 MWh of Battery Capacity to California Grid
Mitsubishi Power Americas and Powin Energy have been appointed to retrofit 640MWh of batteries to solar PV plants in California, while a community energy group in the state has just signed a power purchase agreement for a 100MW solar plant with 150MW / 600MWh of storage. Wholesale energy provider Southern Power said in February that […]
US DOI gives green light to 350MW/1,400MWh Energy Storage Project in California
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has given the green light to the construction of a utility-scale solar-plus-storage project on public land in California. The DOI announced on Monday (3 May) that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given final approval to the Crimson Solar Project, a 350MW solar PV array with a […]
California To House World’s Largest Non-Hydro Energy Storage System
The new technology will provide up to 12 hours of energy storage. If you have not heard of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) yet, you are about to. Canadian firm Hydrostor, a long-duration energy storage solution provider, revealed this week it will develop 1,000 MW of CAES in California, according to a press release. But […]
Japan should try California-style solar panel mandate: Koizumi
Environment minister says renewables take priority after Suga announces new climate target. TOKYO : Japan should consider requiring solar panels on homes and office buildings as part of its plans to achieve its new, higher target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi told Nikkei on Friday. Koizumi, who argues that broader use […]
Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage facility in California
Planned energy storage facility in California is Apple’s latest step towards eliminating carbon emissions from its supply chain by 2030. Apple Inc has announced that it’s building a battery-based renewable energy storage facility in Central California. The new plant will be located next to an existing solar energy installation which already provides energy for all […]
How Saudi Arabia can thrive in a world beyond oil
After nearly five years of efforts to diversify the economy away from crude, oil and government spending largely funded from petroleum still account for about Saudi Arabia’s two-thirds of gross domestic product. On the face of it, no country has more to lose from the transition away from fossil fuels than Saudi Arabia. Before the […]
