Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Leigang Xue invented Potassium Prussian White (KPW) cathode materials in 2017 at the laboratory of the legendary John B. The company, which made its debut at Professor Goodenough’s 100th birthday celebration, is working to commercialize cathode materials for novel potassium-ion batteries. Goodenough at the University of Texas.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 18, 2020

The battery sector is turning to artificial intelligence for clues on how to improve recharging rates without increasing the degradation of lithium-ion batteries. 'An expensive bottleneck in battery research' The research effort has been in progress for at least three years. . 'An

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

British energy developer Balance Power has secured planning approval for a 40MW battery storage project in Cheshire, which will export stored renewable power to the grid when demand is high. Balance Power has since 2017 taken nearly 40 energy projects through to planning consent, creating 426MW of capacity to support the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Battery manufacturer LG Chem has launched a recall of some of its Resu 10H residential battery products in the interest of fire safety. The recall affects approximately 5 percent of Sunrun's BrightBox battery installations, spokesperson Wyatt Semanek noted in an email. "We Dealing with lithium-ion battery fire risks.

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Charged

AUGUST 26, 2022

SK On , a battery company and subsidiary of SK innovation , has secured $2 billion in investment resources from export credit agencies, which it plans to devote to an under-construction battery plant in Iváncsa, Hungary. 3 in Europe “will annually be producing a 30 gigawatt-hours (GWh) scale of batteries from 2024.”. From the 1.7

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Battery leasing has often been proposed as a way to bring down the up-front cost of an EV, and to allay consumers’ fears about battery degradation. Chinese EV-maker NIO has embraced this concept, and launched Battery as a Service (BaaS) for customers in China. The company says it has completed over 800,000 swaps. Source: NIO.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

In the power sector, another 100 megawatt battery just got contracted to support the grid near Los Angeles. This marks the first battery deal for Clean Power Alliance. Even larger power producer AES acquired sPower for $853 million 2017. Big battery hotspot. Can batteries edge gas peakers out of California's mix?

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2021

In 2017 he came on the show to talk about it. Apart from saying they were building a "metal air" battery, his team held the technology close to the vest. Looking for a battery energy storage system? He took on long-duration energy storage -- not long duration like 8 hours or 12 hours, but days or weeks or more.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Conceptual view of electric vehicle battery system. A project aims to create new algorithms which will estimate the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) in an Electric Vehicle (EV) battery, with the firms behind it suggesting it could contribute to the UK becoming a supplier of the most advanced Battery Management Systems (BMS) in the world.

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Charged

JULY 24, 2023

A recent announcement from Toyota concerning solid-state batteries got the world’s media all excited about a big boost for battery-electric cars. (A Toyota says solid-state battery breakthrough can halve cost and size,” fulminated The Financial Times. (A A search for “EV Holy Grail” will turn up most of the relevant articles.)

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 18, 2020

Swedish battery maker Northvolt and state-owned utility Vattenfall launched a new modular and fully mobile energy storage system on Friday, one they say will be able to patch up stressed grids during a period of rapid electrification. Multiple hubs can be connected in parallel. Multiple hubs can be connected in parallel. Credit: Northvolt).

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In 2017, the company said it planned to add solar and batteries to all Supercharger stations, and even disconnect some of them from the grid. Now Electrek has learned that one of the first V4 stations is planned for construction in Arizona, and the plan shows both solar generation and battery energy storage.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Image: Redwood Redwood Materials has recycled e-bike batteries and Tesla batteries. The decommissioning recently wrapped and the batteries are now being transported to the company’s facility in north Nevada for recycling. That project was a 52 megawatt-hour battery installation plus a 13MW SolarCity solar farm.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

By all accounts, Tesla’s battery tech is superior to anything currently available to the legacy automakers. You join ‘em—or poach some of their battery talent to lead your own efforts. Battery developer Northvolt was founded in 2017 by two Tesla alums who were involved in establishing Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now it's tapping a massive battery to help. The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) last week awarded a competitive contract to developer Neoen to build the "Victorian Big Battery" along the transmission line connecting the states of Victoria and New South Wales. Batteries acting like wires.

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Charged

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) captured a record amount of total plug-in vehicle battery capacity sold in 2019, with 17.4 Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) accounted for a smaller portion of total vehicle battery capacity due to their lower sales volumes, and because they require smaller battery packs than BEVs.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2020

Remember battery swapping? However, over in China, NIO has been diligently improving its battery swapping technology. The company introduced its Power Swap system in December 2017, and opened its first battery swap station in Shenzhen in May 2018. Customers can also get a comprehensive battery and powertrain inspection.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on. In 2021, battery manufacturing in the United States totaled approximately 55 gigawatt-hours’ worth of cells, or roughly enough batteries to produce 700,000 EVs.

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Charged

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The US Inflation Reduction Act was intended to boost investment in US battery manufacturing, and it appears to be working—so well, in fact, that European battery producers are becoming alarmed. Sources: InnoEnergy , Batteries International.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In 2017, it began working on an autonomous, fully electric ship that could eliminate emissions altogether. The Yara Birkeland features 7 MWh of battery capacity, which powers two 900 kW Azipull pods and two 700 kW tunnel thrusters, delivering a top speed of 13 knots.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The market for home batteries is picking up. There were more residential batteries installed in Q2 than in all of 2017. It’s more of an emotional sell — and there are a lot different value propositions that contribute to battery sales. On California’s new battery rebate for wildfire zones.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Batteries in the home are almost always tied to rooftop solar systems and are generally driven by consumer interest in resilience in the face of storms, fires and general grid failures. Nonresidential batteries maintained their tepid performance, declining slightly while the rest of the storage market grew.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Republic of Ireland recently received its first grid-scale battery, which will help manage volatility as the island nation ramps up renewable power plants. The Kilathmoy battery packs 11 megawatts/5.5 The Kilathmoy battery packs 11 megawatts/5.5 However, "They happen to be well set up for batteries.".

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Charged

JULY 20, 2023

The RPS program was established in 2002 with an initial requirement that 20% of electricity retail sales be served by renewable resources by 2017. According to the California Independent System Operator, the state’s battery storage capacity has increased from 250 MW to 5,000 MW since 2019, enough to power up to 5 million homes.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study. Individual cells are formed into modules, which are then assembled into battery packs.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Google on Wednesday unveiled plans to install its first backup battery at a data center, with ambitions to use the project as a test case for grid service applications. Google has matched its overall electricity consumption with 100 percent renewable energy purchases since 2017. The company dissolved in 2014.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 5, 2020

Eos Energy Storage spent 12 years building up a technology it says can rival the dominant lithium-ion batteries for storing grid power. Energy storage is a rapidly growing market, and energy companies are plowing unprecedented sums into battery projects. Exotic battery tech, exotic claims.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Here’s just one tidbit that many may have overlooked: beginning with the upcoming Model S/X refresh , Tesla plans to abandon the century-old lead-acid battery technology in favor of a more modern lithium-ion unit. Interestingly, the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid went lead-acid-less. ). Why is it a big deal? Source: Munro Live.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Some see rooftop solar panels and batteries as a business opportunity, or a path to energy independence. The rooftop solar industry is growing steadily, and now tens of thousands of home batteries are getting installed per year in the U.S. Burning batteries are another hazard. “Don’t let your body be the pipe.”

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Eos Energy Storage, a rare non-lithium-ion grid-scale battery contender in an increasingly lithium-ion-dominated world, is gearing up for multi-gigawatt manufacturing. Beyond manufacturing, Holtech will also help Eos sell the batteries. But that same year Eos confessed to having problems in scaling up its battery systems.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

A new 33MW battery storage facility is set to be built near Bristol after a lease was signed this month between land investor Electric Land and Hallen Energy, part of renewable energy firm Voltalia SA. But the new project, which will be built at Avonmouth, marks the French Firm's first battery storage venture in the UK.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 20, 2021

Contributed by Benedikt Sobotka , CEO of Eurasian Resources Group and co-chair of the Global Battery Alliance. Governments, NGOs, and businesses need to work together to support the switch to renewable energy sources and clean energy technologies, such as batteries. Greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for approximately 1.2C

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Charged

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Tesla Semi , an electric Class 8 truck, was hailed as a game-changer when it was unveiled in 2017. Pepsico, which ordered 100 units shortly after the 2017 launch, will be the first customer to take deliveries, beginning in December. And the Semi does have a whale of a battery. per kWh, or $0.40 Stay tuned.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

Sunrun is landing contract after contract to put solar-charged residential batteries to work serving grid needs. “Sunrun has tens of thousands of batteries they’re deploying,” Amit Narayan, AutoGrid CEO, said in an interview. ” Fleets of batteries, meet optimization software.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

As a result, and following the “Dieselgate” scandal, a new laboratory test cycle that reflected actual driving conditions better became mandatory in September 2017. The first hurdle to overcome is access to raw materials to build enough batteries, as a recent ECA report highlighted.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger. ” Stem’s role in opening up the behind-the-meter battery market. and abroad.

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Charged

DECEMBER 31, 2019

billion research project focused on every level of the value chain of Li-ion batteries in the European market. The Commission designed the project to support the development of innovative technologies that improve charging time, battery life, safety and sustainability. The European Commission recently approved a €3.2-billion

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