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Old 05-11-2020, 02:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Kauai,Hawaii @ 55% reneable

Last Tuesday,PBS Television's NHK Tokyo Television's news program did an encore presentation of a January,2020 report.
*The Hawaiian island of Kauai had attained 55% solar electricity production and night time delivery capacity via Tesla grid-scale battery storage.They were saving $millions by scaling back in diesel fuel requirements.By 2045 they expect to be at 100% solar and zero carbon at the grid.AES Corporation is company involved in the project.
*Kyocera (makers of photovoltaic panels) was offering a product akin the Tesla's Powerwall,allowing Japanese with rooftop PV to store and use solar electricity.
*Japan's Malibu Hotel became the world's first commercial building with the capability to run off BEVs plugged into its EV chargers in the hotel parking lot.The hotel was offering employees incentives to purchase BEVs for themselves.The BEVs shown were exclusively Nissan LEAF cars.In the aftermath of an earthquake/Tsunami event,the hotel would have a few days of available stand-alone power,should the grid go down.

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