India seeks to secure critical mineral resources in race for lithium
Financial Times: Energy
APRIL 22, 2024
New Delhi pushes for exploration in Latin America and Africa and auctions domestic mining blocks
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Financial Times: Energy
APRIL 22, 2024
New Delhi pushes for exploration in Latin America and Africa and auctions domestic mining blocks
POWER Magazine
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Brookfield Asset Management announced the launch of Deriva Energy, the new name for Duke Energy’s former unregulated commercial renewables business that Brookfield acquired earlier this year.
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Energy Storage News
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Norway-based IPP Scatec has won preferred bidder status for a 103MW/412MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in South Africa, part of a 513MW tender.
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A consortium including Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and utility EDF has won preferred bidder status for three battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in South Africa.
Energy Central
JUNE 8, 2023
It is imperative to emphasize that a covert competition for supremacy in the lithium market is underway, with the Chinese government consolidating its authority over global extraction. (1) Furthermore, Chinese corporations are.
Smart Energy International
APRIL 8, 2022
Energy Dome and Ansaldo Energia have announced a partnership to bring energy storage facilities to Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Long-duration energy storage solutions provider Energy Dome will provide the CO2 battery technology. Image courtesy of Energy Dome. CO2 battery technology.
altenergymag
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Sungrow offers the 1,500V 6.25MW PV inverter solution and the highly integrated energy storage system with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. The project is located near the Red Sea, facing the challenge of scorching heat and high corrosion.
Smart Energy International
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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.
Business Green
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Smart Energy International
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
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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.
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.
Smart Energy International
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
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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.
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.
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.,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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JULY 22, 2020
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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.
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.
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?
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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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.
Smart Energy International
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
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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.
Business Green
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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!
Climate Tech VC
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Climate Tech VC
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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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