Hi Everyone,
I recently took the plunge to get a website set up: StewardingEnergy.com. Take a peek. It is still very much a work in process as I learn some new tech skills, so bear with me.
I’m seeing lots of stories about how old EV batteries are get a second life. I saw one explanation that honestly hadn’t occurred to me before: when a flashlight battery starts to be too dim, the batteries still have a enough juice to power a remote control. It’s the same thing with electric vehicles.
Please feel free to forward on to any others you think might be interested.
Thanks,
Peter
Where 3 Million Electric Vehicle Batteries Will Go When They Retire
Excerpt: The first batches of batteries from electric and hybrid vehicles are hitting retirement age, yet they aren’t bound for landfills. Instead, they’ll spend their golden years chilling beer at 7-Elevens in Japan, powering car-charging stations in California and storing energy for homes and grids in Europe.
Lithium-ion car and bus batteries can collect and discharge electricity for another seven to 10 years after being taken off the roads and stripped from chassis—a shelf life with significant ramifications for global carmakers, electricity providers and raw-materials suppliers. Bloomberg
More than 40,000 homes in Italy and Germany added batteries in 2017, an increase of nearly 50%
Excerpt: Italy installed about twice of what was expected in homes in 2017, about 8,000 units, while Germany was forecast for 31,000 units and instead deployed 37,000. Meanwhile C&I customers in Germany are increasingly using batteries to reduce their demand charges levied on their use of energy at peak times. Energy Storage News
Taming the duck: Arizona Public Service seeks 106 MW storage for solar plants
India Offers 8 Gigawatts Of Solar & Wind Capacity In Late June Tenders
Excerpt: India continues with its aggressive timeline to issue tenders and hold auctions for large volumes of solar and wind energy capacities. As per a pre-defined timeline to issue tenders, the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) issued the largest wind energy tender and the first-ever hybrid solar and wind energy tender at the federal level late last month. CleanTechnica
Sweden Hits Its 2030 Clean Energy Target This Year
Excerpt: Sweden will claim 3,681 wind turbines by December 2018, putting it 12 years ahead of a country goal to add 18 terawatt-hours of to their its renewable energy output by 2030, according to a recent report month from the Swedish Wind Energy Association. Inverse
VW to Start Electric Car-Sharing Service to Boost Lineup
Excerpt: Volkswagen AG’s namesake brand is entering the car-sharing market with an electric-only offering more than a decade after operators like U.S.-based Zipcar and Daimler’s Car2Go started their services. Bloomberg