Tech Giants Team Up with Nucor: Advancing Clean Energy Innovations

1.) Oak Ridge National Laboratory achieves “the world’s highest power density for a wireless charging system” for a passenger EV, sending 100 kW to a Hyundai Kona.

2.) California Energy Commission awards $3 mn to BorgWarner and project partners Fermata Energy and Lion Electric Company to support a 20-vehicle electric school bus fleet V2G project. Among other scenarios considered, V2G-enabled buses might power during Public Safety Power Shutoff events.

3.) Mondelez Deutschland Snacks Production receives permit from the State Office of Mining, Energy and Geology of Lower Saxony, Germany to explore locally for geothermal energy within 100 square km area. Mondelez is exploring potential of deep geothermal to supply carbon free heat that can support various industrial processes.

4.) Small-scale nuclear reactor company TerraPower plans to start building sodium-cooled modular nuclear reactor in Wyoming as early as June, irrespective of whether it has a Nuclear Regulatory Commission permit by then.

5.) Google, Microsoft, and Nucor combine demand for advanced clean electricity technologies, to accelerate development of new business models advancing early commercial-stage projects, such as advanced nuclear, next-generation geothermal, clean hydrogen, and long-duration energy storage.

6.) Following a successful pilot, Heimdall Power and Great River Energy announce the largest Dynamic Line Rating project in the U.S. to date, planning to install 52 of Heimdall’s Neurons across Great River grid, boosting transmission capacity.