Via The Washington Post, an article on the dilemma of charging times as more EVs enter the US car fleet: As electric vehicles hit the road around the country, hundreds of thousands of Americans are beginning to learn the ins and outs of car charging: how to install home chargers, where to find public charging […]
Read more »Via WIRED, an article on how – by 2035 – the batteries in California’s zero-emission cars could power every home in the state for three days: Last month, California finalized a rule that will ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, starting in 2035. Obviously, that’ll accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and encourage other states to do […]
Read more »Via Week In China, a report on Shenzhen launches ‘virtual’ power plant in hunt for energy gains When electricity is in short supply, it’s even more important to optimise the usage of what you have. That, in a nutshell, is what virtual power plants (VPPs) can do – tracking the electricity supply from various sources and […]
Read more »Via Power Ledger, a look at how a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading system can optimize energy trading in a grid-tied multi-microgrid system: This case study focuses on the implementation of P2P energy trading and planning of a grid-connected distribution system using an advanced optimization approach. The proposed network architecture consists of three microgrids and uses real-time […]
Read more »Via Power Ledger, an interesting case study of how a P2P-based local energy market can benefit both power grids and energy users: The increasing amount of renewable generation creates challenges for the energy providers. Variable renewable energy (VRE), as the name suggests, creates a varying or fluctuating electricity supply. A local energy market (LEM) helps […]
Read more »Via The Economist, a look at why a super-grid connecting Southeast Asia remains a long way off: It takes just three hours to fly to Singapore from Vientiane, the capital of Laos. To transmit electricity between them, however, has taken eight years. In June and July both countries undertook an experiment in energy exchange. Electricity […]
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