Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

The plant will process end-of-life lithium batteries from sectors such as auomotive. Since 2017, ABB has delivered electrification and automation equipment to power Northvolt’s Ett gigafactory for lithium-ion batteries in Sweden. The plans were made in the first quarter of 2023, with financial details undisclosed.

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Charged

MAY 6, 2024

The demand for electric vehicles continues to increase, with EV sales growing faster than any other major category of automobile. According to an article in Forbes, 2023 was the first time more than 1 million EVs were sold in the U.S. Sponsored by Parker Lord. in one calendar year, reaching between 1.3 million and 1.4

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2023, Greentown startups installed more than 1,000 EV chargers, secured plans to deliver up to 1 billion gallons of sustainable air fuel, kicked off production at the United States’ first rare-earth refinery, began operations at a geothermal plant in partnership with Google, and so much more.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Today, I will cover the recently published 2023 report’s highlights. Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. Primary Global Energy Consumption 2022 ROBERT RAPIER Global energy demand grew by 1.1% Global coal demand grew by 0.6% Oil demand grew by 3.1%

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Photoionisation detection (PID) sensors are able to detect potential problems before they occur in the manufacture and use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, and the enormous variety of devices that use rechargeable batteries. Toxic Gas Emissions from Damaged Lithium Ion Batteries—Analysis and Safety Enhancement Solution.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Meta-Headlines of 2023 As our beloved industry matures, our hope for when climate tech grows up is for it to “become boring.” Should we call 2023 the Year of IRA deployment? 💨 Private equity and O&G bet big on climate tech’s next frontiers: DAC and lithium. Not a subscriber yet?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

In September 2023, New Zealand-based battery material developer CarbonScape announced an $18 million investment, signalling the company’s plans to commercialise its biographite production in Europe and the US, enabling cleaner lithium-ion batteries for EVs and grid-scale energy storage. Elon Musk did. Elon Musk did.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The 2023 model is scheduled to arrive in US dealerships in the fall, at a starting price of $74,900. The 2023 lineup includes the entry-level EQE 350 and the performance EQE 350+, as well as the EQE 350 and 500 4MATIC dual-motor AWD versions. The upcoming EQE Sedan is an electric version of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2023

Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. This system has 5x higher system-level energy densities compared to lithium batteries.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused prices of nickel, lithium and other materials to soar, compounding the pain of the global chip shortage and other supply chain woes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lithium prices have also risen, more than doubling since the end of 2021. Prices of nickel and aluminum have been breaking records.

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Charged

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Lithium-ion battery prices have been dropping for so long that industry players and pundits tend to factor ever-cheaper cells into their predictions, and many have made (dubious) comparisons to Moore’s Law, one of the core tenets of the computer industry. The results from @BloombergNEF 's 2022 lithium-ion battery price survey are out.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada’s auto sector is positioning itself to play a central role in meeting growing demand for these cost-saving, carbon-cutting vehicles. EVs made up 18% of all new cars sold globally in 2023, according to the International Energy Agency’s just-released Global EV Outlook 2024. And that was before today’s announcement. “In

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POWER Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

The battery industry is experiencing a seismic shift as demand for renewable energy solutions increases. With electric vehicle (EV) sales expected to double from 2023 to 2027, reaching 31.6

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

As the global Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery market is forecast to grow from $57.4 billion in 2023 to $120.65 The researcher’s predictions, they state in a release, suggest a sizeable global Li-Ion battery demand increase, skyrocketing from over 700GWh in 2022 to approximately 4.7TWh by 2030.

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Grist

MAY 27, 2024

While humans have long coaxed minerals and chemicals from seawater — sea salt has been extracted from ocean water for millennia — researchers around the world are now broadening their scope as the demand for lithium, cobalt, and other metals used in battery technology has ramped up. Publicly funded labs in the U.S.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2022

Panasonic is reportedly gearing up to mass produce a new type of lithium-ion battery for Tesla that could prove cheaper than existing powerpacks while being five times more powerful. The news comes just a few months after Panasonic first unveiled a prototype of the cylindrical 4860-format battery last autumn.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The four microgrid and energy storage sites will help address surging energy demands in the San Diego region, especially during hot summer days and the peak evening hours when solar power generation typically diminishes and there is a significant strain on the grid.

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Charged

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. View the daily session schedule online here. All live sessions will be recorded and available to view after the broadcasts. You can access the recorded videos on each session’s registration page.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This apparatus, in theory, allows for storing power economically on much longer timescales than is feasible with the lithium-ion batteries prevalent today. Decarbonization of industry will drive numerous uses for carbon-free, 100-degree-Celsius heat on demand. A heat engine later converts the energy back to electricity for consumption.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Companies interested in this process cover a range of technologies, including pumped hydro, gravity-based, compressed air and flow batteries, as well as current market leader lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries have absolutely dominated new storage construction in recent years.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

gigawatts of new resources by 2023 to help make up for the capacity to be lost from the pending closure of natural-gas-fired power plants along Southern California’s coast. SCE recently contracted for a 5 MW behind-the-meter battery aggregation from Sunrun, set for 2023 delivery. gigawatt-hours, of energy storage projects.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2022

The battery energy storage system (BESS) is intended to add capacity to help meet high energy demand, support grid reliability and operational flexibility, better maximize the use of renewable energy and help prevent outages during peak demand. It is scheduled to be online in early 2023.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

Growth in batteries outpaced almost all other clean energy technologies in 2023 as falling costs, advancing innovation and supportive industrial policies helped drive up demand for the crucial technology, finds the IEA’s Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions World Energy Outlook Special Report.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Start-up picks North East as location for its plant as Business Secretary travels to region to visit site of planned lithium refinery plant. We're seeing a lot of activity in EV innovation here, with other plans for lithium plants for battery production moving on swiftly," he said.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

At the same time but seemingly unrelatedly, we need more plentiful and sustainable sources of graphene (useful for everything from solar cells to battery storage) and graphite (a key component of lithium-ion batteries). What if one technology could address both challenges? The minerals created are more than 99 percent pure.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Electrify Research’s Home Electrification Tracker Survey polled roughly 1,000 people in each of the four countries in October 2023. Of the myths tested, the one with the most widespread buy-in was: “Mass adoption of EVs swaps one problem (pollution from oil and gas) with another (lithium and cobalt mining, dead batteries).”

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Charged

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to BloombergNEF ’s 2019 Battery Price Survey, the average price by 2023 will be approximately $100/kWh, and below that by the following year, when aggregate demand is expected to exceed 2 TWh. By the end of 2019 this figure had fallen a full 87%, to $156 per kWh. Sources: BloombergNEF.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s latest report states that current lithium-ion pricing stands at about $137 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) and will drop as low as $100 per kWh by 2023. In 2021, the two leading choices are lithium nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) or lithium ferro (iron) phosphate (LFP).

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The geography of the island constrains access to electricity; it relies on a fleet of aging oil- and gas-fired power plants to meet peak demand. Another 782 MW could retire by 2023 when new state nitrogen oxide (NOx) regulations kick in. Lithium-ion batteries do have limits on how many hours of energy they can provide.

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Charged

AUGUST 7, 2022

The 2023 LEAF is going for $27,800, the 2023 Bolt starts at $26,595 , the Tesla Model 3 starts at $46,990, and the Chevy Blazer EV will theoretically cost around $45,000 when it hits the market in 2023. On the supply side, shortages of semiconductors and soaring prices for lithium and other raw materials are holding back sales.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The progress report , part of the 2023 ‘State of the Energy Union’ assessment, notes the Green Deal Industrial Plan, Net-Zero Industry Act and Critical Raw Materials Act as amongst the EU’s key actions to lower the dependence on the imports of net zero technologies and to build a strong domestic manufacturing base.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

AMTE Power and Britishvolt talk up project – reportedly worth £4bn – to feed growing demand for electric vehicles and battery storage. The two firms could potentially even combine their planned sites in order to deliver a much larger-scale battery making facility, they told the FT.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

A key point they made in the email was that lead-acid batteries are 99% recyclable, while lithium-ion batteries are recycled at a rate below 5%. However, when I look at the trajectory, I see lithium-ion batteries steadily declining in price, while the price of lead-acid batteries is relatively stagnant. They agreed. Several things.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With studies indicating that Canadian power demand could double between now and 2050, the federal government recently proposed the Clean Electricity Regulations to help ensure that Canada’s power system remains both clean and affordable in the years ahead. These options can enable relatively high shares of wind and solar on a grid.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

BloombergNEF also expects costs across the sector to remain high throughout 2023, due to high raw material and labour costs, soaring demand for battery packs from automakers, and cost increases across other parts of their supply chain, such as for power conversion systems and balancing services. link] pic.twitter.com/C55UHprYIv.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Graeme Grieve, CEO BMW Group UK, said “BMW Group will have 25 electrified models on the roads by 2023 – half of them fully electric. The first prototype unit is now up and running, powered by lithium-ion battery modules extracted from a MINI Electric development vehicle.

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Charged

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Volkswagen and Swedish battery maker Northvolt have created a 50/50 joint venture to build a factory for lithium-ion batteries. The companies plan to start production by the end of 2023 and initially produce 16 GWh per year. Construction of the production facility is scheduled to start in Salzgitter, Germany in 2020.

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