GM Offers Another Reason To Buy An Electric Vehicle, Just In Time For The Next…
GM Energy’s new PowerBank home energy storage system offers prospective electric vehicle buyers another good reason to buy an EV today, not tomorrow.
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Amazon’s Mighty Wind (Cleantech Talk #38)
Episode 38 of Cleantech Talk kicks off with a discussion of how, while China may be overperforming with its solar panel buildout, those panels are underperforming due to the low air quality there. Which is a polite way of saying that coal-combustion aerosols are reducing solar panels’ electricity harvest — by up to a third! (Dark aerosols, like soot, tend to absorb light; other aerosols such as sulfates and nitrates, reflect light. In both cases, the aerosols prevent light from reaching solar panels below.)
ConEdison Utilizing Landis+Gyr’s L510 Load Control Switches As Part Of PEV Charging Station Pilot Program
Con Edison — the large utility company that provides New York City with electricity — is partnering with one of the world’s top providers of integrated energy management products made specifically for energy companies, Landis+Gyr, on a new pilot project, according to recent reports. The pilot project will be testing … [continued]
eV2g Marks Milestone, Selling Electricity From EV Test Fleet To PJM Grid
A distributed power-clean energy milestone was reached late last week as leaders from government and industry joined officials from the University of Delaware and NRG energy to celebrate the first instance of electric vehicle-to-grid (EV2G) technology being used to sell electricity to the power grid. Ongoing success could well provide a critical missing link on the path to a clean, green, renewable and distributed energy infrastructure, economy, and society.
