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According to the US Department of Energy (DOE), growth in peak demand for electricity in the US has exceeded transmission growth by almost 25 percent every year since 1982.1 Today’s utilities are now being challenged to manage increasing consumption with an aging and already compromised infrastructure, congested transmission lines and greater reliance on renewable resources. According to the US Energy Information

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A lot of time and metaphorical ink is spent on the installation and operation of renewable energy installations, be they onshore wind or offshore wind or solar, with very little attention paid to the before and after — the investment and maintenance phases, arguably the more important and vital stages of any renewable energy project. Beyond my hyperbole, however, is

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Highlights Norway offers the perfect environment for EV deployment. Large tax breaks, expensive gasoline and several additional perks have allowed EVs to capture more than 10% of the market. Debate about this highly favourable policy environment is heating up and presents an interesting test case to follow over coming years.  Introduction Norway is EV heaven. It has the highest gasoline prices

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JEA, a community-owned, not-for-profit utility in Jacksonville, is the latest entity to offer rebates for plug-in electric vehicles. JEA is offering a $500 rebate for vehicles with batteries smaller than 15kWh and a $1,000 rebate for vehicles with larger batteries. Under the hood of a Nissan LEAF electric car at the Jacksonville International Auto Show, Feb. 2014 (Photo by Donald_IIS)

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LAS VEGAS, — Today, Michael Hu, President of 2050 Motors, Inc. (OTCQB:ETFM), announced the signing of an MOU to sell ten percent (10%) of 2050 Motors equity stock to Yancheng Municipal State-Owned Asset Investment Group, Co. Ltd. (YMSIG), an investment and property development company founded by the Yancheng Municipal Government. Earlier this year, YMSIG also purchased Jiangsu Aoxin New Energy

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PARIS (Bloomberg) — European Union officials in Brussels can now shuttle between policy meetings without burning fuel, thanks to a new fleet of electric-powered taxis made in China. Shenzhen-based BYD Co. was the big winner in the city’s first tender for emission-free taxis in the EU’s de facto capital, beating Renault and Nissan. Of the 50-car order for battery-powered taxis,

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David Prendergast and Liwen Wan, scientists working in the Theory of Nanostructured Materials group at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE nanoscience research facility hosted by Berkeley Lab, have run a series of computer simulations that dispel a long-standing misconception about Mg-ions in the electrolyte that transports the ions between a batterys electrodes. The catch for multivalent ions is that their

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Linear Technology Corporation today reported quarterly revenues of $371.1 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, ended September 28, 2014, increased $5.6 million or 1.5% over the previous quarter’s revenue of $365.4 million and increased $30.7 million or 9.0% over $340.4 million reported in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014. Net income of $129.5 million decreased $0.3

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They had us at microbial nanowires, but apparently some scientists have been skeptical of research showing that a mud-loving bacteria called Geobacter can produce electricity and conduct it through tiny wires, much in the same way that copper wire conducts electricity. If you can imagine low cost, tunable, biodegradable, self-assembling components for electronic devices, then you can imagine some of

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Compared to the often-clunky infotainment systems of conventional cars, the 17-inch touchscreen in the Tesla Model S is a breath of fresh air. So how did Tesla do it? A teardown of the Tesla Model S computing systems show more in common with smartphones and tablets than your traditional car, and that explains a lot. In less than a decade,

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