ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The City Council of Landau in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany has approved an agreement with Vulcan Energy (Vulcan) to begin construction of an integrated geothermal energy generation and lithium extraction plant (G-LEP) at the site of the planned “Am Messegelände Südost” business park.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 1, 2024

Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH (Vulcan Energy) has been awarded as the recipient of the prestigious Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2024. The LEOP is a critical milestone in Vulcan Energy’s roadmap of harnessing the geothermal lithium potential in the Upper Rhine Graben. It is very important for us.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Battery supplier InoBat Auto and mineral processing firm Green Lithium have formed a strategic partnership to build and operate a large-scale lithium refinery in the UK. Source: InoBat.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Geothermal Engineering Limited (GEL) has announced plans of producing around 10o tonnes of Lithium Carbon Equivalent (LCE) per year from the company’s geothermal projects in Cornwall, UK. The United Downs project is expected to start producing power in 2024 and represents the UK’s first integrated deep geothermal power and heat project.

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Charged

APRIL 22, 2024

Lyten, a supermaterials application company, reports that its automated battery production line consistently exceeds 90% yield, confirming the viability of manufacturing its lithium-sulfur battery using a sulfur cathode and lithium metal anode.

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Charged

JANUARY 11, 2022

Global materials firm POSCO plans to spend $830 million on a lithium hydroxide plant in Argentina. The plant is to be built by the first half of 2024, and the company expects the 13.5 The plant is to be built by the first half of 2024, and the company expects the 13.5 Source: Yonhap News Agency.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As per a Forencis Research latest report, the The global lithium ion battery market is estimated to reach USD 76.80 Billion in 2024 at a CAGR of 15.4%.

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Charged

JULY 14, 2023

US lithium-extraction company Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) has selected US lithium processor Aquatech to deliver the engineering and process plants for the conversion of lithium chloride intermediate product to battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate at CTR’s Stage 1 Lithium Hydroxide Facility.

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Charged

OCTOBER 12, 2022

mMT of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE). Compass will use $200 million of the proceeds to advance the first phase of its lithium development project. Securing funding to aggressively pursue phase one of our lithium growth opportunity has been an important focus for our management team,” said Compass CEO Kevin S. Crutchfield.

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Charged

MARCH 14, 2022

Australia-based battery materials company Liontown Resources has agreed to supply Tesla with spodumene concentrate, a source of lithium. Liontown will supply Tesla with up to 150,000 dry metric tons (DMT) of spodumene concentrate per year, produced at Liontown’s Kathleen Valley Lithium Project in Western Australia.

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Charged

JULY 14, 2021

General Motors is investing in a US lithium extraction project that could become the country’s largest by 2024. This will supply a sizeable amount of our lithium needs,” Tim Grewe, GM’s Director of Electrification Strategy, told Reuters, adding that GM is also talking with other US lithium producers. Source: Reuters.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 19, 2024

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has announced a Grant Funding Opportunity for projects that seek to address corrosion and/or scaling in geothermal installations in California or advance technologies to enhance extraction of lithium and other valuable minerals from geothermal brine at the Salton Sea geothermal field.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2024

Funding American Battery Technology Company —a startup with technologies for lithium-ion battery recycling, battery-metal extraction, and primary mineral resource development—was awarded $60M in tax credits to accelerate the construction of its next-generation battery recycling facility.

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Charged

MAY 10, 2021

Geologists have estimated that an area in the Upper Rhine Valley, in the Black Forest area of southwestern Germany, holds enough lithium for more than 400 million electric cars, making it one of the world’s biggest deposits. The trove could reduce the reliance of the German car industry on imported lithium.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 26, 2024

The European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) has announced the five finalists for the 2024 Ruggero Bertani Geothermal Innovation Award. The winner will be announced at the GeoTHERM expo & congress, taking place in Offenburg, Germany from 29 February to 1 March, 2024. The Upper Rhine Graben deep reservoirs contain lithium.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

After coming down last year, the cost of containerised BESS solutions for US-based buyers will come down a further 18% in 2024, Clean Energy Associates (CEA) said.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

shares his expectations for the clean energy transition in 2024. In 2024, the race to set and achieve bold clean energy targets will intensify. In 2024, deployment of these decentralized models will accelerate as utilities and regulators continue to see the advantages. Have you read? GW of storage online by 2030.

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Charged

AUGUST 17, 2023

Amprius Technologies , a battery manufacturer in California, has announced a new ultra-high-power, high-energy lithium-ion battery cell that discharges at 10C and delivers 400 Wh/kg specific energy. Amprius aims to offer samples by the end of 2023 and commercialize the new cell in early 2024.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As part of the Li+Fluids project, a team from the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) will be testing for the technical implementation of lithium extraction from geothermal waters near the Uelzen District in Lower Saxony, Germany. Lithium extraction tests are being carried out here for the first time in the NDB.

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Charged

JULY 25, 2022

Ford has executed an offtake agreement with Australia-based battery materials company Liontown Resources for the supply of the lithium-providing spodumene concentrate for a term of 5 years. Liontown will source spodumene concentrate from its Kathleen Valley Lithium Project in western Australia. Li 2 0 and 130 ppm of Ta 2 0 5.

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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

JUNE 7, 2022

The company claims its anode material boosts the energy density of lithium-ion batteries by 20%. The 600,000-square-foot hydro-powered facility will begin producing silicon-based anode material in the second half of 2024, and full production is scheduled for the first half of 2025.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Lithium products and renewable energy company Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) reports that its engineering team has improved several process stages, including optimization of brine preparation, to achieve efficient lithium recovery in real time from the company’s Salton Sea geothermal brine resource in Imperial County, California.

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Charged

JULY 20, 2023

Sion Power has reported a major development milestone for its Licerion EV technology—the company has produced more than 18,000 multilayer, 6 Ah to 20 Ah lithium metal cells for commercial evaluation. Sion Power is currently taking preorders for the Licerion EV 56 Ah automotive B-sample cell, which is expected to be available in late 2024.

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EnergyTrend

MARCH 13, 2024

The development of China's new energy storage industry in 2024 China'snewenergystorageachievedleapfrogdevelopmentin2023,andalsohadtherapidgrowthofthenewenergystorageindustry.Thecumulativeinstallationofglobalenergy.

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Charged

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Rock Tech Lithium, a company with offices in Canada and Germany, is planning to build a production plant for battery-grade lithium hydroxide in Guben, Brandenburg. Projected annual production is 24,000 metric tons of lithium hydroxide, enough to equip around 500,000 EVs. The converter is scheduled to start operations in 2024.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

billion in the first quarter of its 2024 financial year, but slipped back into a net loss, possibly reflecting seasonality. Global battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Fluence saw a record order intake of US$1.1

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TechCrunch: Climate

MARCH 14, 2024

Coreshell, a battery materials startup, revealed a breakthrough this week that could lower the cost of lithium-ion batteries while reducing reliance on China. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 25, 2024

The work on the power plant and lithium extraction plant is expected to be completed by the summer and power generation is planned by the end of 2024. Moreover, GEL had previously announced plans to extract lithium from the United Downs site. GEL) in Cornwall, UK.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Li-Metal , a developer of lithium metal anode and lithium metal production technologies, has demonstrated an electrolyte reconditioning process that it calls “a pivotal component supporting Li-Metal’s patented and modular carbonate-to-metal (C2M) technology for lithium metal production.”

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FuelCellsWorks

MARCH 1, 2024

The Volta project, a groundbreaking initiative led by American investors including James Calaway, the chairman of lithium mining firm Ioneer, is set to

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TechCrunch: Climate

APRIL 3, 2024

The battery startup has raised $78 million to bring its alternative to lithium-ion cells to everything from scooters to steel mills. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Darbytown Storage Pilot Project will test two new technologies as potential alternatives to traditional lithium-ion batteries, both of which could offer strengthened safety features for battery storage. If approved, construction would begin by late 2024, and the project would be operational by late 2026.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Finn-Foley noted, since it is remains unclear whether lithium-ion batteries alone can meet storage needs beyond durations of approximately eight hours. For comparison, a May study by Prescient & Strategic Intelligence estimated the lithium-ion market would be worth close to $107 billion by 2024, with a CAGR of almost 22 percent.

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Charged

JANUARY 12, 2024

24M Impervio can be used in conventional lithium-ion and lithium-metal cells, as well as 24M SemiSolid cells. In a second test, the baseline and Impervio cells intentionally exposed copper on the anode to stimulate the formation of a lithium-metal dendrite.

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Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries have long been touted as a possible successor to the lithium-ion kind—they may have lower energy density, but they rely on more abundant sodium rather than lithium, perform better in cold temperatures, and above all, tend to be cheaper. kWh and a range of 301 km (CLTC).

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 25, 2024

Between 2020 and 2024, investments in Canada’s EV battery supply chain have grown to a whopping $49 billion, blowing even some of the most optimistic growth projections out of the water. EV sales are continuing to smash records both globally and locally, with one in five cars sold globally in 2024 projected to be an electric vehicle.

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