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A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid

GreenBiz

A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid. How will the electrical grid handle so many vehicles charging at once? Especially when fast-charging stations gulp down prodigious amounts of power? You can shift a lot of the electric vehicle charging to line up with those times," Langton said.

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Positive proof for Distributed Intelligence

Smart Energy International

By moving analytics into devices at the grid edge, Itron is simplifying how utilities convert data into insights and helping utilities deliver greater benefits through advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). DOWNLOAD THE WHITE PAPER BELOW. These results mark the beginning of a paradigm shift.

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Flash Drought Hotspots: Southwestern United States

Planet Pulse

To call this swath of North America home is to accommodate water’s ebbs and flows; to live with one eye on reservoir levels and the other scanning the horizon for clouds. They’re harder to monitor and difficult to forecast, but planetary forensics can help identify and analyze particularly drought-prone regions.

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A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid

AGreenLiving

A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid Mike De Socio Tue, 06/01/2021 – 01:45 In the accelerating push to electrify transportation, one big obstacle always comes up: The grid. How will the electrical grid handle so many vehicles charging at once? It could work in a couple of ways.

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Shoppers buy more EVs if they understand charging—and now there’s proof (exclusive first look)

Charged

That makes electric cars a problem: they take time to explain to shoppers. Now, we have proof that educating both salespeople and shoppers about electric-car charging actually boosts sales of EVs. The full details will be presented in September, in a white paper published online by the global EVS-33 conference.

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Cleaner Electricity Grids Equal Longer Life Expectancy

AutoGrid

Cleaner Electricity Grids Equal Longer Life Expectancy By Nils Frenkel, Sales Director, North America When I was working with the City of San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan a few years ago, I learned about a shocking statistic in the city I call home. Peaker Plants Are Located Throughout the U.S.

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Will water pricing be the next carbon pricing?

Business Green

In the same way carbon pricing will put a different thought process around the cost of emitting, that same lens is meant to be applied on the water front," Simon Fischweicher, head of corporations and supply chains at CDP North America, said of water pricing strategies. A seldom used approach. times more than the purchase cost.

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