People are often scared of change, and look for reasons to justify not wanting to change. This has certainly been the case with electric vehicles for the past decade. There are so many misperceptions and there are so many misleading attacks on electric vehicles. At the same time, across the … [continued]
The Southern California utility company SDG&E has a goal of electrifying 100% of its fleet of vehicles (passenger cars, pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles) by 2030. It has provided an update that it has now reached 20% and is on track for that 2030 target. SDG&E also has a … [continued]
Update: Nuvve Holding Corp. is a global energy infrastructure management company headquartered in San Diego, CA which partnered directly with San Diego Gas and Electric and Cajon Valley Union School District to successfully deploy the first full vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project in the nation, following the U.S. Department of Energy’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) initiative announced in April. Through this program, the district’s fleet of eight electric school buses enabled with Nuvve’s V2G technology will now qualify to participate in SDG&E’s new Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP), which pays business customers $2/kWh if they’re able to export energy to the grid or reduce energy use during grid emergencies. In addition to Cajon Valley, Nuvve and SDG&E are also working with other Southern California school districts including, San Diego Unified and Ramona Unified School Districts, on similar V2G projects.
Charging an electric truck or bus at a fleet depot — or an electric car at an apartment, workplace, or a public fast-charging station — should be far cheaper than filling up on gasoline or diesel. Unfortunately, that’s often not the case at sites that receive electricity under utility rates designed for commercial buildings and industrial operations that don’t reflect the flexible nature of electric vehicle (EV) charging. Fortunately, a newly-released report explains how utilities can remedy that mismatch by offering rates designed for commercial EV charging.
The early February breakthrough in California energy storage rules under Net Energy Metering will still take time to be codified, but the great news is that energy from storage can be sold to utilities as long as the storage equipment meets a new Underwriters Laboratory standard. Under Time of Use rates, households with certified storage capacity can store energy during the day and sell it back to the utility during peak periods in the evening.
San Diego Gas & Electric broke the news that it will be doubling the energy storage capacity of its network over the next 3.5 years to enable the adoption of more renewables in its service area.
California is at the forefront of US states when it comes to reducing carbon emissions. Nearly 40% of those emissions come from the state’s transportation sector. Not only has California always been ground zero for car culture, but it’s also home to several of the largest ports in America, whose operations depend on heavy-duty trucks powered by diesel engines.
Public utility companies in California may be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from the fires that raged across the state last year. Those damages could put some of them out of business.
California governor Jerry Brown has signed an executive order that sets a goal of 5 million zero emissions cars on the state’s roads by 2030. The state will invest $2.5 billion to greatly expand the number of charging and hydrogen refueling stations available to California residents.
A new report from the California Public Utilities Commission has concluded that the state’s major utilities have already met or will all soon exceed the state’s 2020 renewable energy target of 33%, and will likely meet the 2030 target of 50% by 2020.
