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A Plug-in Pilot

I just heard about The EV Project , which officially launched last month. The Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), using a $99.8 million grant from DOE, plans to install 11,210 chargers for electric vehicles in five states. During the 36-month project, chargers will be installed in...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2009 2:44 PM by goodwina

Filed under: Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Standardization

Where Do You Plug-in Your Electric Vehicle?

Plug-in vehicles, either hybrid or all electrical, are just around the corner. The big question is how are they going to be recharged? The answer depends a lot on who you are asking. In the US the most significant effort is made by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International). A number of...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2009 3:50 PM by Moldoveanu, Andrei

Filed under: Smart Grid, PHEVs, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Standardization, Energy Storage

Fact Versus Fiction on Energy Storage Systems

Often, important emerging technologies get caught up in misconstrued facts and misunderstandings of capacities and roles in an already technology-driven and confusing world. An example of this can be found in a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, "Getting Real on Wind and Solar" by James Schlesinger...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 5:45 PM by Schweitzer, Eric

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, Environment, Regulation, renewable energy, transmission, grid, PHEVs, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, demand response, wind, economic stimulus, meters, Emerging Technologies, Energy Storage

NIST on the Right Track

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced last week that it has created a new Smart Grid Interoperability Office to coordinate and accelerate the standardization framework initiative assigned to it under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Good move. An even better move...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2009 1:42 PM by Scolnik, Alvin

Filed under: Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Standardization, Emerging Technologies

Energy Storage Technology Is Vital For "Smart" Grid Efforts

NEMA is taking the lead in making Smart Grid and Energy Storage technologies a reality. The NEMA Energy Storage Council (ESC) has held successful meetings where attendees have drafted a list of application categories that help define where Energy Storage (ES) and Distributed Generation (DG) technologies...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2009 12:08 PM by Schweitzer, Eric

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, Economy, Environment, Regulation, transmission, grid, Intelligent Transportation Management, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, NARUC, electricity, demand response, wind, DC power distribution, Economics

Nanotech Start-ups: Can Other People Build It?

I read an excellent article from the October 3, 2008 edition of the N.Y. Times Magazine about the world of budding renewable energy companies and the role and function of venture capital companies in supporting them in their efforts to commercialize products. The article provided four basic questions...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 10:57 AM by leibowitzm

Filed under: Smart Grid, renewable energy, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Safety and Standardization, wind

PHEV's Can’t Plug In if There’s No Place To Plug Them!

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) among other hybrid technologies are being portrayed as the “product du jour” for solving the high-priced gasoline problem internationally and now nationally with our current energy crisis situation at large. Already Toyota, GM...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 5:46 PM by Scolnik, Alvin

Filed under: Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, PHEVs, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Fast Car, Slow Battery (or why we need a better plug)

With apologies to Wyclef and Lupe, the answer to "Are you ready to ride?" may be "yeah, maybe sometime tomorrow." Blogs Engadget and AutoBlogGreen have picked up a back-of-the-envelope calculation estimating the charge time on the all-electric Tesla roadster to be 30+ hours from a...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 11:10 AM by Hsieh, Eric

Filed under: Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, PHEVs, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

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