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Kauai to Hit 80% Renewable Power With Solar-Charged Hydro Storage

GreenTechMedia

With several lithium-ion battery installations to shift solar generation into later parts of the day, Kauai has gone for as long as nine hours in a day on entirely renewable electricity production. "It That pushes potential completion out to at least 2024, depending on how things go. We need long-duration storage.".

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Battery-led storage deployments need to sextuple globally says IEA

Smart Energy International

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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Rising battery storage costs: A long-term trend or short term blip?

Business Green

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.

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Can Gas-Fired Power Plants Coexist with a Net-Zero Target? Yes, Southern Company Insists

GreenTechMedia

That means Southern Company intends to keep building new natural gas power plants to meet its supply needs, even as it grows its renewable energy portfolio from 9 gigawatts today to about 14 GW by 2024. To be sure, no U.S. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio.

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NorthVolt’s Battle Plan to Win the Upcoming Battery-Wars

Mr. Sustainability

That battery factory, with a planned capacity of 40 gigawatt hours, will run on clean and cheap hydropower starting next year. The demand for lithium-ion batteries is therefore going to 'explode', says Carlsson. In baking ovens, materials for batteries such as lithium are dried. Photo: Nils Petter Nilsson for the FD.

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? 2023’s Most Headliney-Headlines #178

Climate Tech VC

Look forward to 2024 predictions from many of your favorite clairvoyant climate voices. 💨 Private equity and O&G bet big on climate tech’s next frontiers: DAC and lithium. Blackrock injected $550M into Oxy’s DAC plant and ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation.

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Capturing Canada’s Electric Vehicle Opportunity

Clean Energy Canada

In 2022, Bloomberg moved Canada up three spots—from fifth to second place in its global ranking of countries’ overall lithium-ion EV battery supply chain potential, citing, in part, our mineral resources and large hydropower capacity in addition to other competitive factors. states have successfully adopted.