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

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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

For Eco Charger, Aceleron has developed a bespoke lithium-ion battery for the company’s electric ATVs. Aceleron’s circular economy technology and second-life schemes can be applied across the whole energy storage spectrum, enabling waste reduction across all applications from stationary storage to e-mobility.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) currently lags behind its counterparts due to the lack of targeted storage policies and incentives, which BNEF finds surprising, considering Europe’s ambitious climate targets. Battery chemistries and technologies expand. usually have more hours of storage.

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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. The Saudi government is developing renewable energy and advanced digital technologies to make NEOM a smart city technology hub.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a leading nonprofit investor in climate technology for deep community impact, introduced its latest cohort, bringing its total amount of investments to $79M. The why: With demand for lithium growing twice as fast as production, the U.S. With this latest cohort, Elemental is infusing another $12.5M

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

Eric Ménard writes The Operational IoT market continues to expand as organisations across the world imagine an extraordinary range of opportunities to leverage sensor technology. Charities are monitoring water quality across Africa to ensure remote communities have reliable access to safe drinking water.

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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

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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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 30, 2020

Prior to today’s announcement by Total and Opel, the Wood Mackenzie Energy Storage Service was tracking 285 gigawatt-hours of lithium-ion manufacturing either operational or under development across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Earlier this month Tesla secured a 300-hectare site for Gigafactory 4 in Germany.

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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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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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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

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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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Pramac said that through the new partnership it was able to reuse up to 85 per cent of Jaguar I-PACE batteries, including lithium-ion cells, modules, and wiring, in the new storage units. This brings a new element to the sustainability story as a manufacturer of energy efficient and carbon reducing technology.

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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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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 22, 2020

We coupled the competition with thought leadership from industry powerhouses including Method co-founder and Ripple Foods CEO Adam Lowry, Nancy Pfund of DBL Partners , and Tom Steyer.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. 🛵 EMotorad , a Pune, India-based electric bike marketplace, raised $20M in Series B funding from Panthera Growth Partners, xto10x Technologies, and Green Frontier Capital.

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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 record performance was driven by plummeting technology costs, growing investor familiarity, and the expansion of subsidy schemes, the analyst firm said.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 20, 2021

We started in California and have expanded operations into China, India, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. A working knowledge of clean energy technologies, policy, and the California Energy Innovation Ecosystem. Our mission is to support diverse entrepreneurs to drive innovation and build equity in the global clean energy economy.

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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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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Its physical structure allows it to store lithium ions. Q&A with Graphex CEO John DeMaio Reading the EV press, you might assume that lithium, cobalt and nickel are the stars of the battery show—they get a lot of coverage, as pundits debate the relative merits of NMC and LFP cathode chemistries and agonize over looming shortages.

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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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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. Often, people think that their country is something unique. Their region is unique.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2021

A cutting edge demonstration project that developers claim could offer a cost effective, long life alternative to lithium-ion battery based energy storage systems has come online in Scotland, providing a major boost to hopes that gravity-based energy storage systems could be deployed at scale.

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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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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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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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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

Earlier this year the company secured £300,000 funding from Innovate UK to assess the suitability of former mine shafts in South Africa for the technology, with previous research having indicated the system could potentially store energy at half the lifetime cost of lithium ion batteries.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

Credits cover inverter, solar, wind and battery technologies alongside 50 minerals. Winners: Thermal batteries are included in the rules, indicating belief by the regulators that the technology has a role in economically decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors (e.g. in debt from Africa Go Green Fund.  Antora , Rondo Energy ).

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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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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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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To build a successful battery supply chain, Africa needs to move away from a legacy of mineral extraction and exporting of raw materials to investing in the existing opportunity to partner, beneficiate and manufacture. Afrivolt is developing Africa’s first lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility with a 5GWh installed capacity.

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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%

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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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