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Lessons Learned Living Off-Grid For A Week in Moab

Last Updated on: 21st April 2025, 10:57 am Last week, I did something many people would consider to be crazy. Instead of getting a hotel or paying for space in an RV park with full hookups, I drove several miles up a rough dirt road and parked my travel trailer.

CATL Next Gen Batteries Coming Soon To An EV Near You!

Last Updated on: 22nd April 2025, 05:25 pm A few weeks ago, BYD announced new battery technology that allows electric cars to recharge in about 5 minutes. This week at the annual Shanghai Auto Show, CATL fired back with fast charging news of its own. It claims its second generation

Tariffs or Not, Stellantis Hatches Big Solid State Battery Plan

    Last Updated on: 24th April 2025, 09:55 am Tariffs, schmeriffs. That’s the message from automaker Stellantis. The company is laying plans for its future even while fighting tooth and nail for a bigger slice of the US auto market. That includes a solid-state battery roadmap, with the aim

You’re In A New Paradigm! Behave Like It!

    Almost every day, I come across a number of articles that claim we can’t address climate change without adding nuclear power plants — or even gas plants. I also come to articles that say we have plenty of renewable energy under development, but we need new transmission lines

SpaceX hit with mishap investigation by FAA for Starship Flight 9

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has an extremely busy month for himself and his company in June if all goes according to plan. Not only is Tesla planning to launch its Robotaxi platform in Austin, Texas, next month, but Musk is also now indicating that Teslas will self-deliver to customers in

SunTrain Re-Imagines Battery Storage & Clean Energy

    Thermal generating stations keep producing electricity as long as there is fuel to boil water to make steam to spin turbines. They don’t care what the weather is outside. As long as there’s steam, there’s electricity. Over the past 100 years or so, most humans have gotten used

Mulilo and Scatec win out in BESIPPPP Window 3

  A total of 33 bids for the five battery energy storage system (BESS) projects at transmission system operator (TSO) Eskom substations were received, of which four bids from Mulilo and one from Scatec were successful. Mulilo, which is majority owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), is preferred bidder for

From Darkness to Light: Iberia’s Rapid Grid Recovery Explained

Last Updated on: 30th April 2025, 02:11 am On April 28, 2025, the Iberian Peninsula experienced a significant and sudden blackout, plunging large portions of Spain and Portugal into darkness and disrupting critical infrastructure for millions of people. The outage occurred at around midday, severing approximately 60% of the region’s