This week we find out just how far behind Ireland is in electric vehicle adoption, Google gets slammed for being like Apple, and a new wave of AI assistants is upon us. Also, Fidelity Investments’ Aaron Smith talks about an innovative approach to start-ups being worked on in association with Dogpatch Labs.

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Ireland’s low-energy EV game

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Our Planet Earth: Canada's Clean Energy Transition

CleanTechnica talks with Withum — a top 25 advisory, tax, and accounting firm that specializes in renewable energy tax credits (among other important topics) and the cleantech industry — about the complex and changing world of these vital credits and what you need to know for your business to thrive in 2025.

Navigating Clean Energy Tax Credits: Opportunities & Challenges

The City of Medicine Hat has partnered with Decentralised Energy Canada to host the Energy Innovation Challenge, a tool they are using to navigate energy transition and transform new energy resources such as solar, EVs, batteries and managed loads into assets instead of liabilities.
GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast
Medicine Hat & The Energy Innovation Challenge: Navigating Energy Transition
Medicine Hat stands out in Alberta's energy landscape due to its independent, discrete electricity grid. This allows the city to implement innovative energy solutions and set its own rates and policies.
• Quote: "Medicine had, unlike other cities, has its own discrete electricity grid and sets their own rates and policies for residents so they can also implement creative energy transition solutions if it makes sense."
Key Program: Hat Smart
The Hat Smart program incentivizes residential energy efficiency and renewable energy adoption through rebates for devices, rooftop solar arrays, and water conservation measures.
• Impact: The program has provided $6.2 million in rebates since 2008 and led to a 14-16% reduction in water use this summer.
• Popularity: Rebates for rooftop solar arrays are fully subscribed by spring each year, highlighting the high demand for solar energy.
• Innovation: A new PACE-like financing option called the Clean Energy Improvement Program allows residents to invest in clean energy improvements and repay through property taxes.
• Quote: "We've just launched the clean energy improvement program and that it's really a financing option for residents to access top up payments to their property taxes essentially in order to do similar things in order to invest in rooftop solar or other sorts of clean energy improvement options at the household level"
Current Energy Mix & Transition Plans
Medicine Hat currently relies on three gas-fired power plants (300 MW capacity) and a 6 MW wind farm. They are actively exploring new energy transition avenues:
• Utility-scale solar: A 325 MW solar project within city limits is economically viable and under consideration, with a request to the Alberta Utilities Commission to build in stages due to its size.
• Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS): While Medicine Hat holds an exploration permit for a CCS hub, analysis suggests it is less economically viable than solar at present, with success hinging on carbon pricing.
• Energy Innovation Challenge: This initiative with Decentralized Energy Canada aims to generate solutions for managing increasing demand from EVs, heat pumps, and solar projects.
Quote: "We have found that utility scale wind and utility scale solar is economically viable today. So the city is currently looking at a utility scale solar array up to 325 megawatts of generation capacity within the urban limits of Medicine Hat. The city is looking at a whole host of other options including carbon capture and sequestration for hard to abate businesses."
Conclusion:
Medicine Hat demonstrates proactive leadership in transitioning to a cleaner energy future. Through programs like Hatsmart and exploration of large-scale renewables and CCS, the city provides a valuable case study for other municipalities seeking to decarbonize. The Energy Innovation Challenge further highlights their commitment to finding practical solutions for the evolving energy landscape.
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385B. Medicine Hat's Energy Transition Journey & The Energy Innovation Challenge

我們邀請到 DIGITIMES 副總經理黃逸平與 PowerArena CEO Ken，深入討論 AI 在智慧製造中的未來發展。黃副總分享了台灣在 AI 領域中的關鍵地位，Ken 則深入回應了製造業者在導入 AI 過程中，所面臨的實際挑戰與解決方案。兩位專家探討 AI 如何重塑生產流程，以及這些變革對產業發展的深遠影響，共同剖析在日益自動化、數位化的時代中，勞動力將如何轉型。

精彩時刻
- 00:00 片頭及來賓介紹
- 02:01 AI 世代的機會與挑戰
- 04:33 轉型升級：如何開始導入 AI 與避免障礙
- 12:39 正確的導入牽引指標
- 16:03 未來工廠：想像與現實
- 21:39 台灣的製造未來與供應鏈戰略
- 25:45 電動車前景：製造轉型優勢

PowerArena Website: https://www.powerarena.com/zh-hant/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerarena

In this episode, we’re joined by Eric Huang, Vice President of DIGITIMES, and Ken, CEO of PowerArena, to discuss the future of AI in smart manufacturing. Eric shares insights into Taiwan’s role in the AI landscape, while Ken delves into the practical challenges and solutions manufacturers face when integrating AI. Together, they explore how AI is reshaping the production process and what lies ahead for the industry. Tune in to discover how AI is transforming manufacturing and what it means for the future of human workers in an increasingly automated world.

Highlights
- 00:00 Opening and guest introduction
- 02:01 Opportunities and challenges of the AI generation
- 04:33 Transformation and Upgrading: How to start introducing AI and avoid obstacles
- 12:39 Correct import of traction indicators
- 16:03 Factory of the future: imagination and reality
- 21:39 Taiwan’s manufacturing future and supply chain strategy
- 25:45 Prospects of electric vehicles: Advantages of manufacturing transformation

PowerArena Website: https://www.powerarena.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerarena

DIGITIMES on the Future of Manufacturing

The ballots have been counted and the winners have been announced of the Energy Innovation Challenge hosted by Decentralised Energy Canada and the City of Medicine Hat. 
The winners were announced at the Decentralised Energy Canada Forum in Whistlers, British Columbia. (https://www.deforum.ca/)
The winners solutions will be piloted on the Medicine Hat Grid to help integrate decentralized energy resources such as solar, wind, EVs, batteries and heat pumps. The solutions are a mix of software and hardware designed to use these resources to expand the capacity of the grid, provide cheap energy and better utilize existing underutilized 20th Century grid infrastructure. It's the first step in creating a resilient, affordable and reliable grid of the future.
We talk to the winners from Edgecom Energy and Arcus Power.
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388. Energy Innovation Challenge winners to integrate solar, wind, EVs & batteries into Medicine Hat

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Justine Johnson, Michigan’s Chief Mobility Officer and head of the Michigan Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME), talks with CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan about how Michigan’s mobility and electrification strategy, guided by the MI Healthy Climate Plan, is innovating and moving the EV ecosystem forward. They really are leading the way on some of the cutting-edge EV topics of the day.

Leading the EV Ecosystem Forward in Michigan

Welcome to Overdrive, a program that probes deeply into the issues of motoring and transport

I am joined by Paul Murrell 

If you want to dive deeper into our thoughts, ideas, and occasional ramblings, you can find us on our website, podcast, or social media – just search for Cars, Transport, Culture.


Subjects 
•	McLaren Automotive’s newly announced $3.9 million W1 hypercar comes with an option of a watch at the snip of a price of $560,000
•	Nissan is making vehicle to grid technology much more affordable which allows EVs to return power back to the grid or provide power for local needs such as your house in a blackout.
•	Bathurst and advertising on cars – the good the bad and the ugly
•	Launch of the Deepal S07 (at Bondi Beach) seeking out the influencers not just the traditional motoring press.

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And this has been overdrive 

Thanks to 
•	Paul Murrell
•	Brian Smith
•	Mark Wesley
•	Bruce Potter 
for their help with this program.
You can get more of our work including longer versions of the program on our website, through our podcasts, or more visual information on Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. In all cases search for cars transport culture.

Overdrive is syndicated across Australia on the Community Radio Network

This program was first broadcast on 19 October 2024 

I’m David Brown
Thanks for listening

Overdrive: Deepal S07 launch; Good, bad and ugly signage on race cars; McLaren’s $560,000 watch

Phillip Kobernick, Associate Director of Energy Programs at Peninsula Clean Energy, and Zach Shahan, CEO of CleanTechnica, talk about why Level 1 EV charging is king, and why it's critical for California to achieve its EV charging goals. Phillip and Zach also talked about other matters, such as building codes, the duck curve, and Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs).

Why Level 1 EV Charging Is Critical

The wheels on this electric bus have been going around and around since 2017. We talk to Jeremy Kureluk of Rental Bus Lines based in Stony Plain, Alberta about owning and operating an electric school bus in the cold Canadian north.
Turns out they love their electric buses and want more. We dive into all the questions you might have including range, winter performance, maintenance, and more.
GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Pocast


389. Electric School Bus in the Cold Canadian North

In a recent episode we talked to Jeremy Kureluk of Rental Bus Lines about how much they like their electric buses and how they hoped one day to connect them to a virtual power plant to feed electricity to the grid. Turns out this is already happening in Canada. 
Rob Safrata owns a tour bus company and he too wants to go electric. So he started FUSE Power Management, based in Vancouver, to set up the infrastruture and contracts needed to use electric buses as virtual power plants which would make going electric even more lucrative.
Peaking power is valuable and fleets of electric buses that are parked during the evening peak electricity period could make revenue helping the grid when it needs electricity.
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See blog at GreenEnergyFutures.ca to learn more or subscribe to our video podcast on YouTube.


390. Electric School Bus Virtual Power Plants - It's happening

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PowerTalk invites industry elites to dive into the world of smart manufacturing and share their secret sauce of using innovative technologies to reshape the manufacturing landscape.

CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan interviews cleantech leaders, top researchers, and investment experts in the fields of electric vehicles (EV), batteries and mining, solar energy, climate change, artificial intelligence (AI), and more.

The CKUA Radio podcast of the GreenEnergyFutures.ca series. The multi-media series is hosted by David Dodge and tells the inspiring stories of Canadians involved in the green energy revolution.

Overdrive: Cars, Transport and Culture.

A weekly radio program featuring motoring & transport news from Australia & around the world, road tests, feature interviews & quirky stories.

David Brown is a respected motoring broadcaster heard online and across Australia on commercial, public and community radio.

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