A Bloomberg story posted at Renewable Energy World describes the use of biogas at a BMW plant in Rosslyn, South Africa, which is about 50 miles northwest of Pretoria. The German auto manufacturer has a 10-year contract with Bio2Watt to create as much as 4.4 … Read more…
Fuel cells fueled by garbage are being used at a BMW plant in Greer, S.C. Five groups – the auto maker, the Energy Department, Ameresco, the Gas Technology Institute and the South Carolina Research Authority – are working together on the project. The latest sign … Read more…
BMW will begin testing a prototype hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle on public roads this month, Bloomberg reports. The automaker, which debuted its battery-powered i3 in 2013, says its fuel cell vehicle will be consumer ready sometime around 2025 to 2030. BMW’s fuel-cell Gran Turismo prototype has … Read more…
The BMW Group says that 51 percent of its electricity worldwide is being supplied from renewable sources. BMW Group has a step-by-step plan to transition the company to 100 percent electrical energy supply from renewable sources. The first step is to increasingly improve the efficiency … Read more…
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and automaker BMW are teaming up to test the ability of electric vehicle batteries to provide services to the electric grid. PG&E selected BMW after a competitive solicitation to manage a minimum of 100 kilowatts of electric demand on PG&E’s … Read more…
The University of Delaware and NRG Energy have officially sold energy from electric vehicles to PJM Interconnection, proving for the first time that electric vehicle-to-grid technology can sell electricity from electric vehicles to the power grid. The University and NRG began work in September 2011 to … Read more…
BMW Manufacturing expanded its hydrogen fuel-cell material handling equipment across its 4-million-sq-ft production facility in Spartanburg, SC. In 2010, BMW completed the installation of a hydrogen storage and distribution area near the plant’s Energy Center to power about 100 pieces of fuel cell material handling … Read more…
Walmart tops the US Environmental Protection Agency’s list of organizations within its Green Power Partnership generating the most on-site renewable electricity. Walmart is head and shoulders above other partners, generating nearly 175 million kWh of electricity annually, while the second-place spot is taken by BMW, … Read more…
Semiconductor company IXYS Corporation has released the results of a test study that it says demonstrate a 50 percent reduction in IT energy consumption at its offices worldwide. The study was conducted in conjunction with Dhaani Systems, which deployed its proprietary network-based energy IT management … Read more…
BMW expects to cut the cost of powering its high-performance computing as much as 82 percent by moving some of these applications to Verne Global’s 100 percent, dual-sourced renewable-powered data center campus in Iceland. According to the UK-based data center developer, the deal will see … Read more…
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