Clean Update

GM Ready To Start Commercial Hydrogen Fuel Cell Deployment

DETROIT - A year and a half after first announcing its intention to move in this direction, it is ready to begin. General Motors first announced in January 2022 that it was working on a Hydrotec hydrogen fuel cell technology that would be used for commercial vehicle applications. The company has been developing this project

By |2023-08-16T18:32:10-04:00August 16th, 2023|Auto Tech, Clean Update|

ITC Michigan President Reflects On 20th Anniversary Of 2003 Blackout

NOVI - On MITech TV Aug. 14, we joined Simon Whitelocke, president of ITC Michigan, to celebrate the company’s 20-year anniversary. ITC Michigan was established just a few months before playing an instrumental role in determining the cause of the North American Blackout of 2003. Since then, ITC has worked to increase reliability of its

By |2023-08-16T14:52:13-04:00August 16th, 2023|Clean Update, mitechtv|

ITC Michigan President Reflects On 2003 Blackout, Discussed Future Need

NOVI – On MITech TV Aug. 14, we joined Simon Whitelocke, president of ITC Michigan, to celebrate the company’s 20-year anniversary. The company was established just a few months before playing an instrumental role in determining the cause of the North American Blackout of 2003. Since then, ITC has worked to increase reliability of its

By |2023-08-15T17:43:15-04:00August 15th, 2023|Clean Update, Featured|

Nikola Lands $58.2 Million To Build Hydrogen Stations To Fuel Heavy Commercial Vehicles

PHOENIX, ARIZONA - Nikola was granted a total of $58.2 million from various regulatory agencies to build a series of hydrogen refueling stations for heavy-duty trucks, the company announced last week. Nikola Corporation is a designer and manufacturer of heavy-duty commercial battery-electric vehicles (BEV), fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV), and energy infrastructure solutions. With headquarters

By |2023-08-12T11:07:23-04:00August 12th, 2023|Auto Tech, Clean Update, Featured|

Rivian CEO Opens Up About EV Charging Deal With Tesla

IRVINE, CA. - Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said his company’s upcoming EV charging partnership with Tesla won’t change how Rivian customers’ payment information and data are processed, a question on analysts’ minds as a growing number of electric carmakers adopt Tesla’s unique charging standards. “There’s not any data transfer built into the relationship,” Scaringe said

By |2023-08-12T10:59:33-04:00August 12th, 2023|Auto Tech, Clean Update|

Energy Transition: Hydrogen-Generated Rooftop Panels

KARLSRUHE, Germany - Efficient production of hydrogen, fuels, and even drinking water on roofs or in solar parks—this is what researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and their Canadian partners want to achieve with low-cost photoreactor modules. Now, they have reached major progress. They report their results in Joule. Artificial photosynthesis means that chemical reactions are

By |2023-08-02T15:28:14-04:00August 2nd, 2023|Clean Update, Clean, green, hybrid, Featured|

Forget Solar Panels Now We Have Rain Panels To Generate Electricity

DETROIT - In a potentially game-changing breakthrough in energy harvesting, researchers have found a way to capture, store and utilize the electrical power generated by falling raindrops, which may lead to the development of rooftop, power-generating rain panels. Previous attempts to generate power from failing rain have run into specific technical hurdles that often seemed

By |2023-07-29T15:36:05-04:00July 29th, 2023|Clean Update, Featured|

MPSC Approves Settlement Agreement On DTE Integrated Resource Plan

LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission   approved a settlement agreement on DTE Electric Co.’s integrated resource plan (IRP) for providing electricity that includes faster shutdown of the utility’s remaining coal-fired power plants and significant investment in wind and solar generation and energy storage. Today’s order (Case No. U-21193) approves a settlement agreement signed by

By |2023-07-29T15:36:06-04:00July 28th, 2023|Clean Update, Politics, Politics/Government|

57 Percent Of All Commercial Diesel Trucks Are Near-Zero Emissions Models

WASHINGTON  – U.S. trucking companies are buying more new, low emission, diesel technology than ever before. Research shows the number of new near-zero emission diesel trucks on the road increased 10.2% between 2021 and 2022 according to the Diesel Technology Forum (DTF). Near-zero emission trucks are advanced diesel technology manufactured in the 2010 and later

By |2023-07-29T14:43:45-04:00July 28th, 2023|Clean Update, ESD|

Report: Global Warming Could Trigger Collapse Of Gulf Stream Impacting Weather For Everyone On Planet

LONDON, UK - A vital system of ocean currents could collapse within a few decades if the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution, scientists are warning – an event that would be catastrophic for global weather and “affect every person on the planet.” A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature, found that the Atlantic

By |2023-07-25T16:54:41-04:00July 25th, 2023|Clean Update, Climate Change, Featured|