Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A new partnership aims to deliver solar-powered computers to 10,000 children a year across schools in Madagascar and East Africa. The computers will go to schools that do not have access to reliable power, helping to reduce a gulf in digital literacy arising from a lack of energy access. These computers can change lives.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

and China will lead, claiming over half of the global installations by the end of this decade, according to a new outlook by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). This boom in stationary energy storage will require more than $262 billion of investment, BNEF estimates. Global adoption. See educational sessions here.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Latest BloombergNEF report predicts booming demand throughout the 2020s should see global energy storage market hit one terawatt hour by the end of the decade. The surge in installations is expected to involve more than $262bn of investment, as energy companies around the world rush to deploy storage capacity alongside wind and solar plants.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support smallholder farmers in East Africa through a collaboration with in-region technology and weather partners. PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

To combat this, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts sales of up to 44 million electric vehicles (EVs) a year by 2030. For Eco Charger, Aceleron has developed a bespoke lithium-ion battery for the company’s electric ATVs. Transport is the largest emitter of UK carbon emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Apart from lithium, there is one material that is currently a fundamental part of all lithium-ion batteries, regardless of cathode chemistry: graphite. Graphite is a strangely unnoticed piece of the lithium-ion battery; it is the weightiest constituent of most installations. We need to talk about graphite.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Italian long-duration storage developer Energy Dome has launched the first CO2 battery demonstration nationally. Energy Dome and Ansaldo Energia partner on energy storage in EMEA Why the grid needs long-duration energy storage. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Protecting satellite imagery from fraud Satellite imagery is becoming increasingly important as a source of data for energy and water utilities, as for other sectors also. Such climates generally have abundant sun or wind and are thus ideally suited to renewable energy production. Have you read? Join Enlit Europe in Paris.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

UK tech start-up gains Innovate UK backing to assess South Africa's former gold mines for energy storage capability. UK tech start-up Gravitricity has unveiled plans to explore the energy storage potential of South Africa's former mine shafts, thanks to a £300,000 funding boost from government agency Innovate UK.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Technology company Huawei Digital Power has been awarded a contract to build what is claimed to be the world’s largest battery energy storage system in Saudi Arabia. Huawei will be partnering with Chinese construction and engineering company SEPCO111 to deliver the energy storage system as part of the Red Sea Project.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Machine learning based battery charging protocols, propane as an energy efficient and environmentally friendly coolant for space cooling, the remotely controlled Robobug and a new light on nano-level electrical circuitry, satellite observations for energy development in Africa and a zero emission luxury catamaran are on the technology radar.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 30, 2020

Total, via its energy storage company Saft, and Opel, part of France's Groupe PSA, will kick off the arrangement with an exploratory research and development pilot plant opening next year. “In 2015, Total set an ambition to become the responsible energy major," said Total CEO Patrick Pouyanné in a statement.

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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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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 13, 2021

is the North America subsidiary of Polarium Energy Solutions AB, a Swedish company dedicated to providing the best performing, safe and sustainable energy storage solutions built on lithium-ion technology. South Africa, Sweden, UK, New Zealand, and Indonesia, Polarium serves customers worldwide. Polarium Inc.,

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

Battery storage is set to play a central role in decarbonising the global economy, critical for renewable energy, electric vehicles and other key technologies. The global energy storage market is already worth $59bn and is forecast to grow ten times to $546bn by 2035.

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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.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: With demand for lithium growing twice as fast as production, the U.S. produces less than 2% of the global total.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto announced last week that it will build its first in-house solar plant to power mine operations, adding to a slew of recent renewable energy pledges from mining companies. Another mining behemoth, Anglo American, will only use renewable energy for its Chilean operations after 2021.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2020

UK-based redT energy and US Avalon Battery Corporation have merged to create a new company, named Invinity, which will produce vanadium redox flow batteries, a key competitor to conventional lithium-ion technology that is tipped to become a £3.5bn market by 2028.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Delivering on this potential can be even more transformative where alternatives remain expensive, unproven, distantly or less available to serve rapidly growing demand for clean, resilient, and zero carbon energy- as in countries like India , and those in Sub-Saharan and southern Africa.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In new funds, energy transition infrastructure is bringing in the big bucks with Brookfield's record-breaking $28B infra fund and Antin's $1.2B Near-term commitments include 6 GW of clean energy in India alongside considerations for wind and solar in Africa and rural electrification in Latin America.

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 22, 2020

Over the past 10 years, Clean Energy Trust has hosted a variety of flagship events that showcase the Midwest’s vast cleantech ecosystem. These connections help us to support early-stage startups working on solutions for clean energy, decarbonization, and environmental sustainability. Co-Founder and CEO of Darcy Deepinder Singh?—?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Investment in renewables across sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, jumped $600m in 2018 to $2.8bn, according to new data from BloombergNEF (BNEF). The trend is expected to continue with some 1.2GW of solar PV expected to come online in 2021 outside of South Africa - more than twice the amount commissioned in 2018.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Earlier this year, the California Energy Commission (CEC) published a $20 million solicitation to fund research projects for the deployment of long-duration energy storage. Lithium-ion batteries were excluded from the solicitation. What is a VFB, and how does it differ from the more ubiquitous lithium-ion battery?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at Skeleton Technologies’ €108 million funding round, with investors such as Siemens Financial Services and Marubeni Corporation, for supercapacitor manufacturing and development of new high-power battery technology, namely the SuperBattery.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 20, 2021

Managing Director | New Energy Nexus | Oakland, CA. New Energy Nexus is an international non-profit organization that supports clean energy entrepreneurs with funds, accelerators and networks. We started in California and have expanded operations into China, India, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. The Organization.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Who should join the World Energy Storage Day? World Energy Storage Day (WESD) is a global movement. Also of interest: India’s EV market to grow at CAGR of 49% between 2021-2030: IESA report India’s energy transition special supplement.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2021

New 250kW project aims to demonstrate viability and cost-competitiveness of gravity-based energy storage system. Clean tech start up Gravitricity announced last week that it has successfully commissioned a 250kW energy storage demonstrator that "proves the capability" of the company's gravity-powered technology.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

UK start-up signs land rental agreement to build its first energy storage demonstrator at the Port of Leith. In what would be the first working demonstrator for its gravity-based energy storage system, the UK start-up said it planned to begin building work on the project in October this year at an industrial site at the Port of Leith.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Its physical structure allows it to store lithium ions. Some advanced designs use a small amount of silicon, which can store more energy. A lot of discussion focuses around the cathode side: the lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, etc. Graphite is the critical component of all current anode designs. Charged : Haha, I bet you do!

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. The summit also sought to highlight Africa as a destination for climate investments, rather than viewing the continent as predominantly a victim of droughts, famines, and floods. Happy Monday!

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Energy & industry.   A first look at the feds Federal investment on clean energy and transportation (Source: Clean Investment Monitor ) CIM also tracked the deployment of federal dollars since the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry incumbents like utilities, nuclear, hydro, and oil and gas with legacy energy production along with regions with little access to solar and wind may also be left in the cold. Antora , Rondo Energy ). per gallon of fuel, based on life cycle emissions calculated using the Department of Energy's GREET model.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

StoreDot is developing a range of technologies, reporting itself also to be on track for its first milestone – the production of its silicon-dominant anode extreme fast charging (XFC) lithium-ion cells at scale by 2024 that will be capable of delivering 160km of range in 5 minutes of charge. Have you read?

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

But analysis by Climate Home News has warned the most ambitious of three decarbonisation scenarios outlined in the strategy document would still see the amount of coal used for Indonesia's primary energy growing until at least 2050. South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target. I have no doubt," he told delegates.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Electric vehicle makers and battery manufacturers are making progress in developing new lithium-ion designs, amid persistent concerns over the supply of key materials. Foremost among these formulations is a lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cathode chemistry with eight parts of nickel for each part of cobalt.

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