IBM today announced it has joined a collaborative consortium to help develop an energy grid that uses at least 50 percent of renewable energy sources, such as wind power, solar power and biogas.

It is estimated that every electric car that comes on to the roads will require 1.5 chargers; in Europe alone electric cars sales are expected to reach half a million per year by 2015.

Toshiba has won a contract to be the supplier of electric vehicles (EV); 10kW photovoltaic (PV) solar power generation system; a 45kWh SCiB, Toshiba’s rechargeable lithium-ion battery; and the overall system monitoring.

Mitsubishi is Developing Easily Deployable Wireless Charging Systems for Electric Cars.

Christian Kjaer, Chief Executive Officer of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) said: “If the right regulatory measures are put in place, substantial economic benefits can be reaped.”

AWEA applauds the Obama administration for taking steps to move from merely talking about transmission to actually getting wind farm projects permitted and under construction.

European Wind Energy Association is currently campaigning with many other associations including BUSINESSEUROPE and Eurelectric for an internal market for electricity and the EU-wide electricity grid needed to deliver it.

The cost for creating the complete meshed offshore grid including wind farm connections would amount to about 0.1 Eurocent per kWh consumed in the EU27 over the project life time.

GE Energy Industrial Solutions reached a partnership agreement to work with Inovateus Solar, a US solar energy distribution and integration company, to build new solar carports with electric car chargers.

The initiative is part of a broader move by the industry-university consortium to create more clean-tech jobs in the state.

Tamil Nadu, with an installed wind farm capacity of 6,300 MW, or about 40 per cent of the country’s wind turbines capacity, has a preeminent position in the wind power industry.

SunEdison is a global provider of solar-energy services. The company develops, finances, installs and operates distributed solar power plants using proven photovoltaic technologies.

NRG Energy has announced that it is partnering with the University of Delaware to take electric vehicles to the next level with eV2gSM.

Energy storage is used for purposes running from grid stability to backup power for IT, to extending wind energy and solar energy capture into the evening.

As more electric vehicles hit the road and charging stations continue to proliferate, electric vehicle-to-grid technology (V2G) is the next logical step in the electrification of our transportation.

Solar energy charging station provides economical charging facility for electric cars with lithium ion batteries.