Photo: Blink Charging EV charger maker Blink Charging (Nasdaq: BLNK) is turbocharging its manufacturing capacity with a new 30,000-square-foot factory in Maryland. Blink Charging’s new LEED Gold-certified factory in Bowie, Maryland, is going to become the central hub for Blink’s in-house manufacturing and production in North America. It will include an extra production line to…

Fermata Energy will integrate its Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) services platform with bidirectional EV chargers manufactured by BorgWarner. Together, the companies said they are accelerating ongoing efforts to integrate bidirectional charging capabilities with a variety of automotive OEMs. The integration of Fermata Energy’s software with BorgWarner’s hardware includes both of their UL-certified 60kW and 125kW chargers. The…

Published: February 12, 2024 As the pace of electric vehicle (EV) adoption accelerates nationwide, Duke Energy said it launched an EV charger rental program in North Carolina that enables residential and business customers to lease an EV charger from the company at a monthly cost, which covers hardware, warranty and maintenance. The Charger Solution…

Photo: Avangrid Avangrid’s 3.5 gigawatt (GW) Kitty Hawk Wind could deliver around $5 billion in economic impact across Virginia – here’s where the project stands. The 180-turbine Kitty Hawk Wind is an offshore wind project proposed in federal waters over 36 miles from Virginia Beach. It will be capable of generating enough renewable power for…

Nikola Corporation, via the HYLA brand, is opening its first HYLA hydrogen refueling station in Southern California. The station at 2445 East Guasti Road in Ontario, CA, will feature an advanced modular fueler. The company said its Ontario station will be capable of fueling up to 40 Nikola hydrogen fuel cell electric Class 8 trucks…

Rendering: Brier'energie The residents of Saint-Joachim in Pays de la Loire, France, are putting solar canopies over their cemetery. A cemetery shaded by solar The 1.3-megawatt (MW) solar canopy will cover the Saint-Joachim cemetery and supply electricity to the commune’s 4,000 residents from the summer of 2025. What’s neat about this project is that…

Rendering: SubFarm A 2.5 gigawatt (GW) Swedish floating offshore wind farm is going to be paired with an innovative sustainable fish farming system. Floating offshore wind and fish farming Sweden-based Freja Offshore, a joint venture between floating offshore wind developer Hexicon and Mainstream Renewable Power, is developing Mareld, an enormous floating offshore wind farm off Sweden’s west…

Published: February 8, 2024 FreeWire Technologies is collaborating with GM Energy to accelerate the deployment of ultrafast EV charging infrastructure for GM Envolve fleet and commercial customers. This effort will help support GM Energy by providing a streamlined and flexible EV charging solution, FreeWire said. FreeWire offers EV charging solutions that can be deployed…

The United States Postal Service (USPS), alongside White House officials, unveiled its first set of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at its South Atlanta Sorting and Delivery Center (S&DC). Charging stations like these will be installed at hundreds of new S&DCs across the country throughout the year. Electrification and modernization of the Postal Service’s delivery…

Sunbather, Daytona Beach, Florida (1985) by Library of Congress is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Florida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches. Excluding hurricanes, of course, Florida doesn’t have sufficient wind power, either onshore or offshore, that, say, states…