With a broader range of market options and a growing infrastructure, the passenger electric vehicles (EVs) market is projected to have 11.4 million EVs on the road, with cumulative sales of 12 million EVs and a value of over $400 billion by 2025. This growth in EV adoption will create many points of complexity for grid operators and other electricity market stakeholders. In GTM Research’s recent report, “The Impact of Electric Vehicles on the Grid: Customer Adoption, Grid Load and Outlook,” these complexities are discussed and analyzed, to ultimately provide a perspective on how customer adoption and grid load will unfold.- Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has announced the opening of a new state of the art, public natural gas station along Interstate 5 in Fife, a suburb of Tacoma. The station adds to Clean Energy’s “Americas Natural Gas Highway”, allowing fleets to operate from state to state utilizing natural gas vehicle fuel. The station, located at 3013 20th Street East, was designed, built, and will be operated and maintained by Clean Energy. The station consists of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) fast-fill pumps, and is open to the public 24/7.
- Alliance BioEnergy Plus has announced that the Airports Council International – North America has given its written support of the CTS process for the production of aviation biofuels and Alliance’s application to the Department of Energy for a bio-refinery demonstration plant, producing jet fuel from agriculture and yard waste.
- Registration is open for the 14th International Conference on Renewable Mobility: Fuels of the Future, taking place January 23-24, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Geared to German and European biofuel industry, attendees will include international stakeholders from politics, the biofuel industry and research. The event will cover a myriad of topics including the diversification of engine technologies as well as the research and production of various fuels from renewable energy sources.