Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

The facility in Sardinia, Italy is aimed to mark the final de-risking of CO2 battery technology as a long-duration storage option as the company takes it to the commercial scaling phase. Our breakthrough technology, the CO2 battery, is now commercially available to make cost-effective renewable energy dispatchable on a global scale.”.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

Efforts to tackle the growing waste problem created by battery technology have taken another step forwards today, with UK-based resuable battery specialist Aceleron today announcing £2m investment to grow its business. The global energy storage market is already worth $59bn and is forecast to grow ten times to $546bn by 2035.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The report also noted that Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) currently lags behind its counterparts due an absence of targeted storage policies and incentives, but it added that a more supportive policy environment could emerge as European governments work to deliver on their ambitious decarbonisation goals.

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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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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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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. Anglo American has also installed an 84-kilowatt floating solar array at its tailings pond at Los Bronces, a first for the industry, Martinez said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

"We are immensely proud to be providing the responsible authorities with a sustainable and perfectly-suited solution," said Gian Luca Erbacci, senior vice president of Alstom Europe. Investment in renewables across sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, jumped $600m in 2018 to $2.8bn, according to new data from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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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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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Lithium-ion batteries were excluded from the solicitation. What is a VFB, and how does it differ from the more ubiquitous lithium-ion battery? Matt is a mechanical engineer by training, and he explained that he has been building clean energy technology for 25 years. For the past 15 years, he has been developing flow batteries.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. We have divided the world in four regions. Their region is unique.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. Emerging climate technologies (ECT) – clean hydrogen, carbon management, and sustainable aviation fuels – experienced the highest Q4 growth at $4.3B, a 10X jump relative to Q4’22.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. More domestic refining and processing of the raw materials for batteries and other critical mineral deposits located in Africa.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target. South Africa's environment minister Barbara Creecy has called for national leaders to ratify a global goal for climate adaptation, Climate Home News reported earlier this week. Rio Tinto ready to drop $2.4bn on Serbian lithium project. "I have no doubt," he told delegates.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Warnings of an impending shortage of key metals and minerals – including things like copper, nickel and lithium – have been forthcoming from a number of commmentators in recent months, including consultancy groups with an interest in the area, such as McKinsey. in 1970, to 0.7% McKinsey & Co. July 2023. [2] 1 August 2023.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Most sequestration technologies are either well below 200 years or well over.   Deals of the Week (2/19-2/25) Late-Stage / Growth 🔋 Ascend Elements , a Westborough, MA-based lithium-ion battery recycling and materials platform, raised an additional $162m in Series D funding from Clearvision Ventures, IRONGREY, and Just Climate.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The US also set out a 10 year plan in 2022 to accelerate fusion technology bringing all DOE fusion labs under one roof. 🔋 Princeton NuEnergy , a Bordentown, New Jersey-based lithium-ion battery recycling developer, raised $16M in Series A funding from Wistron Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Bekaert, and SAIC Capital.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

  This week, we get nerdy mining ExxonMobil’s lithium announcement - is this lithium’s shale moment? Lithium Mobil-ization Source: Company presentations, Bloomberg Last week, ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation in Arkansas, marking its first major foray into lithium production.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The Nissan RE-LEAF is a concept aimed at emergency response, providing power where there is none. Nissan's design shows the EV concept can simultaneously power an electric jackhammer (24 hours – 36 kWh), a pressure ventilation fan (24 hours – 21.6 kWh), a 10-liter soup kettle (24 hours – 9.6 kWh) as part of relief efforts.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 6, 2020

He is setting up the International Institute of Automotive Technology Training (IIATT) with a major focus on PHEV and BEVs. As the number of EVs on the road grows, there is now an urgent need to train automotive technicians to be ready to work on all these EVs. Taurayi Raymond Sewera wants to help address this gap starting in Zimbabwe.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 4, 2020

Last Thursday, California made history by becoming the first state to mandate that truck makers move to zero-emission drivetrains. California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) new Advanced Clean Trucks regulation requires that half of the state’s trucks will need to be zero-emission by 2035, and the remaining half by 2045.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 10, 2020

Bjorn Nyland (aka Teslabjorn) wanted to use the PlugShare App as a map for one of his now famous electric road trips, but he realized the map would just be too cluttered, as Norway has a lot of fast chargers! Ah yes, first world problems, in Bjorn’s words.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Just like many EV brands blame the slow ramp-up of EV production on battery supply constraints, lithium-ion home batteries have not been produced in large volumes. With a huge world market to address, a limited quantity of the batteries from these global brands get to reach Africa.

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