Charged

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Battery recycling technology company Lithion has raised 125 million Canadian dollars ($99 million US) in a Series A funding round, and has granted construction and manufacturing firm IS Dongseo the exclusive right to use its lithium-ion battery recycling technology in the South Korean market.

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Charged

MARCH 1, 2022

Materials technology and recycling company Umicore will introduce a new generation of its proprietary battery recycling technology in 2022, and has reached an agreement with Automotive Cells Company (ACC) to provide battery recycling services. Source: Umicore.

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Charged

JANUARY 25, 2022

Primobius has reached an option and licensing agreement with Stelco Holdings to commercialize Primobius’s proprietary EV battery recycling and processing technologies in North America. Operations are expected to begin in 2023. Canada-based Stelco is a steelmaking company that supplies steel to automakers. Source: SMS group.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Digital transparency company Everledger has launched what they tout as a world-first battery passport pilot with automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Company to ensure responsible recycling of EV batteries. EV battery tracking. EV battery visibility.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Blockchain 105

Charged

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Li-Cycle has announced plans to build a fourth commercial battery recycling facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Univar Solutions will be an anchor battery feed supply customer for the new facility. It is projected to commence operations by 2022. The company’s Gilbert, Arizona facility is still under construction.

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Charged

AUGUST 12, 2022

Ascend Elements , a vertically integrated battery recycling and engineered materials company, has announced plans to invest $310 million in the first phase, and up to $1 billion total, to build a battery materials facility at the Commerce Industrial Park II in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Source: Ascend Elements.

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Charged

MAY 17, 2022

6K, a producer of engineered materials for lithium-ion batteries, has raised $102 million in the first of two Series D funding tranches. 6K will open its Battery Center of Excellence in August 2022, and is working through site selection for a 10-20 GWh cathode plant that is to begin production in early 2024.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The potential yearly cost of collecting and recycling these vapes – according to the same research – now stands at £200 million which currently isn’t being paid for by vape producers, importers and retailers. It also explored the preferred recycling solutions for vapes.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo.

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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. energy storage deployments.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The use of recycled cathode material to make new batteries will be a key part of the circular battery supply chain, but is recycled material truly equivalent to the freshly-mined stuff? Battery manufacturer A123 Systems also participated. “In A new study indicates that it is just as good, if not better.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 15, 2023

But will lithium follow that same trend? Last year saw lithium prices soar due to increased demand for lithium-ion batteries as well as supply chain impacts due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In February 2022, battery-grade lithium carbonate soared to $72,000 per metric ton, which was nine times higher than the 2020 price.

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Charged

MAY 21, 2021

Li-Cycle, the developer of a novel battery recycling system , has announced an agreement with Ultium Cells, a joint venture of GM and LG Energy Solution, to recycle up to 100% of the scrap generated by battery cell manufacturing at Ultium’s Lordstown, Ohio mega-factory. When fully operational in 2022, the $2.3-billion

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Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 76

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Fortum has launched Fortum Batterie Recycling GmbH in Germany to provide safe and sustainable electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling in central Europe in the hope of bridging the raw materials gap the automotive industry is facing.

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Terra Infirma

JANUARY 29, 2024

And the loudest cheers will come from the recycling industry where, according to Zurich Insurance, the lithium batteries from disposable vapes caused 125 fires in 2022 – along with 123 house fires. However the Government is using environmental legislation to ban disposable vapes as it can be implemented more easily.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Energy Dome closed an $11M convertible round to accelerate the commercial development of its CO 2 battery. Revterra raised a $6M Series A for its grid-stabilizing kinetic battery from Greentown partners Equinor and SCF Partners’ venturing arms. Department of Energy’s Battery Recycling Prize. Awards + Recognition.

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

Swedish battery maker Northvolt is launching a new program, Revolt, that is devoted to recycling lithium-ion batteries. It plans to bring a pilot recycling plant online in Västerås, Sweden, in 2020, next to its existing manufacturing plant. It will serve as a platform for developing and validating the recycling?

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

American Battery Technology Company was awarded a $57M Department of Energy grant to build a $115M, first-of-kind commercial-scale facility to manufacture battery-grade lithium hydroxide from Nevada-based sedimentary resources. Kanin Energy CEO Janice Tran was selected for the 2022 Mária Telkes Fellowship Cohort.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Renewable energy asset developer Ameresco will supply Southern California Edison with three battery energy storage systems totaling 537 MW/2 GWh to provide resiliency to the grid. SCE sees a growing role for battery storage as we transition to delivering 100% clean renewable energy to customers,” SCE President and CEO Kevin Payne said. "SCE

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Refining the circular economy for battery materials. Increasing the efficiency of recycling offers a way to “close the loop,” creating a circular supply chain that can provide the needed raw materials for batteries and other components and minimizing the need to expand the world’s mining operations.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The InnoEnergy Skills Institute has concluded specialised training courses for over 50,000 students, a milestone they tout towards addressing workforce demands within the battery industry. 50,000 learners completed training courses designed to equip them with essential skills for navigating the battery value chain.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 30, 2022

SolarEdge Technologies and its subsidiary, Kokam Limited Company, have announced the opening of Sella II, a two gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery cell manufacturing facility in the Eumseong Innovation City of Chungcheongbuk-Do, South Korea. ” Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Batteries Lithium Technology Resilience 52

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

This latest briefing, “ Better, Faster, Cleaner: Securing clean energy technology supply chains”, makes the case that global supply of key materials and components is sufficient to meet growing demand for clean energy technologies (wind, solar, batteries, grids, heat pumps) over the medium- to long-term.

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Technology Energy Energy Lithium 189

Charged

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

First Cobalt is expanding its plans to provide battery-grade nickel and cobalt, recycled battery materials and precursor material to the North American supply chain. First Cobalt is also changing its name to Electra Battery Materials. The company has also been testing black mass feeds from recycled batteries.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2022

Jaguar Land Rover is partnering with Italian technology supplier Pramac on a portable energy storage unit with second-life I-PACE batteries. The Off Grid Battery Energy Storage System features lithium-ion cells from Jaguar I-PACE electric vehicle batteries taken from prototype and engineering test models. Have you read?

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Batteries Electric vehicle Recycling Recycling 52

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

Energy security will remain centre-stage Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, energy security became one of the top considerations of policymakers, energy companies and consumers worldwide. Earth’s abundant materials and commonly available mechanical components can be readily recycled or repurposed at end of life.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Wind and solar accounted for 61% of electricity generated in Denmark in 2022. Regionally, the EU-wide average share of electricity generated from wind and solar in 2022 was 22%. states (18) generated more than 20% of electricity from wind and solar in 2022. 29%), Chile (28%), and Australia (26%). Over a third of all U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 23, 2022

OTTAWA — Several Canadian Battery Task Force members have made statements in response to the recent series of electric vehicle battery supply chain developments in Canada. The Canadian Battery Task Force is an industry-led initiative created to deliver advice to Canadian governments on how to develop a domestic battery supply chain.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While there are positive trends, such as the 50% increase in the roll-out rate of wind and solar in the EU in 2022 compared to 2021, from raw materials to key intermediate components and final clean energy technologies, the region is becoming more dependent on imports from third countries, the report finds.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 13, 2023

Lifecycle emissions commonly include emissions from mineral sourcing like mining or recycling, mineral processing, vehicle and battery manufacturing, car use and, in some cases, disposal and recycling at end of life. Many automakers, like Tesla , Ford , and General Motors , are investing in battery materials recycling.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Auto manufacturer announces partnership with Pramac to repurpose old electric vehicle batteries into portable energy storage units. Jaguar Land Rover has unveiled plans to give a second life to electric vehicle (EV) batteries with the launch of a new portable zero-emission energy storage unit.

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Batteries Electric vehicle Africa Lithium 38

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

The vehicles will form the UK’s first zero emission recycling and waste collection fleet and will collect residents’ waste and recycling in the Square Mile. It is piloting the UK’s first 24/7 zero emission street at Beech Street and will turn other parts of the Square Mile into zero-emissions zones by 2022.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What will it take to get to 'car-to-car' recycling? At a press conference just a few days ahead of the start of the 2022 Paris Motor Show, Renault Group announced the creation of a new business entity, The Future is NEUTRAL. Another of The Future is NEUTRAL's ambitions is to become the leader in closed-loop battery recycling in Europe.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 7, 2023

First, the Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit (§45X) provides a tax credit for domestically manufactured or assembled renewables equipment, such as components for solar and wind energy, certain battery components, inverters and critical minerals. Solar, wind turbine and HVAC manufacturing In August 2022, First Solar, Inc.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

One of the more quirky innovations unveiled at CES 2022 was an undersea energy storage system that can soak up excess energy from offshore renewable energy plants using gigantic "bladders" distended across the ocean floor. Bladder-power underwater energy storage. Damon is hoping to have cracked this problem.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. Deals of the Week (8/14-8/27) Venture Fundings 🔋 Northvolt , a Stockholm, Sweden-based lithium-ion batteries from recycled materials producer, raised $1.2B Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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