Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

UK Government must spend £20bn on energy battery storage to meet 2030 renewables targets. Cornwall’s latest data estimates almost 10% of grid capacity will be provided by battery storage by 2030, costing an estimated £20bn. This area of expenditure includes solar, wind, nuclear and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCUS).

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Mosaic

JANUARY 3, 2024

Take a look at a few of the trends we’re predicting in 2024. Demand for solar will remain high in the long term Net metering and interest rates have proved challenging for the solar industry in 2023. Additionally, 3.2 The data shows the sustainable home improvement industry continues to significantly advance year after year.

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Charged

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Redwood Materials , the EV battery recycling firm headed by Tesla alum JB Straubel, has created a new web portal that’s designed to enable auto recyclers to quickly and easily get an offer for a used EV battery pack. According to Redwood, the new tool is an important step towards building a circular supply chain for EV batteries.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 2, 2024

Moreover, it must be scalable as the demand for H2 continues to climb.  Hydrogen Storage Companies That Have Made Headlines in 2024 The Innovative Approaches of H2MOF and Eindhoven University California-based startup, H2MOF , co-founded by Nobel laureate, Fraser Stoddart, is making strides in hydrogen storage technology.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 4, 2024

Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a leader in the zero-emission vehicle sector, is gearing up to disclose its financial results for the first quarter of 2024, which ended on March 31. The company is also making strides in the sale and distribution of its battery-electric (BEV) “2.0” ET (7:30 a.m.

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AutoGrid

JANUARY 3, 2024

From continued growth in DERs and VPPs to interoperability improvements to renewed investment in customer experience, we predict that 2024 will be another landmark year in the transition to a smarter, cleaner, more resilient grid. 2023 was a big year for the clean energy sector—but our team is even more excited for what’s on the horizon.

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Charged

APRIL 18, 2023

Battery recycling company Cirba Solutions has announced a Phase I investment of at least $300 million in a new battery recycling facility to be built near Columbia, South Carolina. It will extract such materials as nickel, cobalt and lithium in quantities sufficient to support production of 500,000 EV batteries annually.

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Charged

MARCH 27, 2024

A crucial factor for achieving both innovative breakthroughs and sustainability objectives is the energy optimization of battery testing laboratories, a key factor in reducing CO2 emissions and lowering operational costs. Reserve your spot—it’s free! See the full session list for the Spring Virtual Conference on EV Engineering here.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Battery plants have established themselves in the sunny Southwest, but this week was the first time they won big in New England. That means that these two battery plants offered a compelling enough price to edge out some fossil fuel plants for delivering power on demand. The seven-year capacity contracts start in June 2024.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2022

Ford, which recently announced plans to spin off its EVs into a new global business unit, plans to add three passenger EVs and four commercial EVs to its European lineup by 2024, and is taking on some partners to help with the process. The investment includes a new battery assembly facility scheduled to start operations in 2024.

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Charged

AUGUST 21, 2023

Current and projected demand for EV chargers is the catalyst for the formation of Bullet EV,” said COO Mark Vogel, citing data from S&P Global Mobility showing that forecasts of EV sales demand will require the number of EV chargers to quadruple by 2025 and grow more than eightfold by 2030. Source: Bullet EV

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

billion to build an LFP battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. BlueOval Battery Park Michigan will initially employ 2,500 people when production begins in 2026. As the company rapidly scales EV production, introducing LFP batteries will also enable Ford to produce more vehicles. Ford plans to invest $3.5

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 25, 2024

Honda will bring to Ontario new manufacturing activities and jobs in the three highest value parts of the EV battery supply chain: battery materials production, battery cell manufacturing, and EV assembly. “The investment will be supported by both federal and Ontario government contributions of up to $2.5 billion each.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Electric vehicles (EVs) could be on track to reach cost-parity with fossil fuel cars within three years thanks to rapid strides in battery development worldwide, which have seen the average cost of lithium ion battery packs plummet almost 90 per cent over the past decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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POWER Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2023

continue to grow, supported by increased federal funding, legislation that improves project economics, and growing demand for cleaner energy. Deloitte, which provides […] The post Deloitte Report Highlights Growth in Renewables, Challenges for 2024 appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 1, 2024

Decentralisation, blockchain and AI, the future grid and the space race are some of the areas in which numerous advances have been made in 2023 and are set to continue during 2024. But for this one I have decided to take a forward look to 2024 – and would invite your feedback on its focus and style for the year ahead. Have you read?

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Charged

MARCH 25, 2022

Buzz is expected to go on sale in Europe in the third quarter of this year, but US customers will have to wait until 2024. Buzz will offer a 77 kWh battery and a 150 kW (201 hp) rear-mounted electric motor. Demand is through the roof, we might need to act accordingly,” said he. Buzz has created beaucoup buzz. The 2023 ID.

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Charged

AUGUST 13, 2021

Commercial EV innovator Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) has formed a new agreement with LG Energy Solution to provide a long-term supply of cylindrical battery cells, to be manufactured at a new LG Energy Solution plant in the US. LG will deliver cells to Proterra’s factories for the manufacture of the company’s commercial EV battery systems.

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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

This raises several questions which must be discussed together including: How can we prepare the electricity grid for such a structural change in both supply and demand of electricity? Demand side measures. Electricity supply and demand need to be perfectly balanced for the safe delivery of electricity. Image: GridBeyond.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

An ongoing study has indicated that roaming charging on the main French roads for long-distance transport could represent an energy demand of up to 3.5TWh per year by 2035. According to the DSO, while this additional energy consumption and power demand is significant, it could be integrated without major difficulty to the network.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

million) in contracts to deliver the new battery energy storage systems in Kwinana and Collie, together totalling 2.8GWh in storage capacity. Limited (CATL) has been contracted to supply 300 EnerC Plus, containerised liquid-cooling battery systems for Kwinana Battery Stage Two, and about 650 EnerC Plus for Collie. billion ($1.8

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The global energy storage market quadrupled last year to 4 gigawatts of new installations and will surge to a 15-gigawatt annual market in 2024, even as system price declines slow down, according to Wood Mackenzie. where developers are increasingly pairing large-scale solar arrays with batteries.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 29, 2024

From interconnection to market structures, US power grid operators are grappling with an onslaught of battery storage development, which has boomed due to the critical need to shore up variable renewable energy. “We just don’t have experience with batteries,” Moorty added. Have you read? ” Moorty said.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Clean energy enterprise TagEnergy has reached financial close on the 49.9MW/99.8MWh Pitkevy facility in Fife, Scotland, its sixth battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the UK. Flexitricity partners as route to market and battery optimiser, while independent renewable energy company RES has been appointed as asset manager.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

French industry association Think Smartgrids makes the case to lead the national industrial scale deployment of flexibility, focusing initially on demand side consumption, in a new report.

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Charged

JANUARY 10, 2023

Battery material provider Echion Technologies and niobium supplier CBMM have formed a partnership to build a new facility in Araxá, Brazil to supply anode-grade niobium oxides to be used in Echion´s XNO battery anode material. The investment should enable total production of 3,000 tonnes of battery-grade niobium oxide in 2024.

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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 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. billion in 2023 to $120.65

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Planning approval has been granted to EDF Renewables UK for three grid-scale lithium-ion battery sites strategically located in Kent, Norwich and Essex. In Swainsthorpe, Norwich, planning consent has been obtained for a 114MW/228MWh facility with construction expected to commence in early or late 2024.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2022

We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy), but thanks to the recent surge in raw material prices, that positive trend could slow, or even go into reverse, according to a recent Reuters report. Russia is also a large provider of aluminum.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 12, 2023

Lightweighting has already been a priority as the sector seeks to make internal combustion engine vehicles more efficient, but it’ll become all the more critical with the shift to EVs; EVs are heavier, on average, due to their weighty batteries. Our value proposition is on-demand manufacturing at the unit cost of casting.”

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 19, 2024

Elemental is focused on scaling companies through the missing middle, and 2024 is shaping up to be a huge year. And mostly because the stakes for 2024 are very high, and I don’t want to waste a moment in mobilizing partners who can help get us further faster. Good stories can create demand for climate solutions at the local level.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

bp has entered an agreement with Harmony Energy Income Trust to offer power trading and optimisation services for two battery storage systems, making use of a previously acquired AI-based platform to support the power grid during hours of peak demand.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

billion) investment in a cylindrical battery plant. It is said to be the first-ever cylindrical-type battery manufacturing plant in North America. The Korean battery manufacturer will be the cylindrical battery plant’s sole investor. New EV start-ups using cylindrical batteries are on the rise. trillion ($1.4

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

More scrutiny is being placed on the carbon cost of battery manufacturing, in both the automotive and stationary storage sectors. Manufacturing emissions are lower for conventional vehicles than for EVs, where the batteries make up around 30 percent of greenhouse gas output. We need to talk about graphite.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 24, 2020

NextEra Energy, North America’s leading wind and solar generator, is combing through its base of existing solar facilities with an eye to retroactively adding batteries, as it adopts a more “aggressive” view on the falling cost of energy storage. Near-firm" renewable power. NextEra built 2.7

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AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

How VPPs Reduce Both Costs and Emission in Meeting Peak Demands. Traditional peaking plants have been relied upon for decades to prop up regional power systems during spikes in demand throughout the U.S. combustion turbines burning natural gas or oil meet most of the peak power demands. By Peter Asmus. What are the alternatives?

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