AutoGrid

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This paradigm has led to utilities spending hundreds of billions of dollars in building ‘peaker plants’ which are only fired up when the electricity demand is excessively high, say during a hot and sticky summer afternoon. These peaker plants are disproportionately dirty even by fossil-fuel standards.

Energy 59

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Electricity 59

Elemental Excelerator

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and electric vehicles are becoming mainstream and cost effective, allowing us to transition much faster away from fossil fuels. First of all, critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, graphite, manganese, and others are the building blocks of many clean technology applications.

Recycling 105

Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 105

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

There’s no clear long-term demand for SAF as yet, and without that, investors will be reluctant to finance what’s needed to scale production, so it remains a niche product. The question of where the feedstock to produce these fuels should come from also seems contentious and complex. tonnes from 2021 to 2030.

Aviation 100

Aviation Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 100

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. How do you aggregate that demand to create sufficient momentum in the market to drive investment?". federal government.

Hydrogen 130

Hydrogen Natural gas Lithium Batteries 130

Charged

AUGUST 16, 2022

Qichao Hu, founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based battery maker SES, recently told us, “It takes about 2 years to build a new battery gigafactory, but it takes at least 8 years (sometimes more than 10 years) to build a new lithium mine.”. It’s across the whole spectrum of materials involved in the lithium-ion battery supply chain.”.

Lithium 67

Lithium Recycling Recycling Batteries 67

ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels.

Europe 105

Europe Fossil fuels Climate change Politics 105

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

An update last year from Benchmark Materials Intelligence group noted that 148 of the 200 lithium-ion battery mega factories planned around the world were in China, with Europe and North America boasting just 21 and 11, respectively. This threshold is set to climb to 45 per cent in 2023 and 55 per cent from 2027.

Batteries 69

Batteries Recycling Recycling Lithium 69

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Yet when it comes to oil demand, there is little sign of this happening (3).

Building Energy Monitoring 78

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 78

Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The company is expected to expand across Asia, Australia, and Europe and is also pushing into Latin American markets. It’s been making its own batteries since the days before US automakers were even thinking about lithium-ion supply chains. Shaw Group, Veriten and HSBC Asset Management. The Sultan is head of Abu Dhabi Oil Co.,

Energy Monitor 57

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 57

Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

President Joe Biden yesterday responded to rising fossil fuel costs and the continued Congressional deadlock that is blocking White House efforts to pass climate legislation by approving a package of emergency measures designed to accelerate US clean energy technology manufacturing.

Fossil fuels 41

Fossil fuels Packaging Power grid Technology 41