Charged

MARCH 7, 2024

Stellantis Ventures has made a strategic investment in France-based sodium-ion battery developer Tiamat. Tiamat says its sodium-ion technology is lithium- and cobalt-free and cheaper per kilowatt hour (kWh) when compared with lithium-ion batteries. The wide availability of sodium boosts sustainability and material sovereignty.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 28, 2021

Florida Power & Light Company announced that construction has begun on the FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center , which is expected to become the world’s largest integrated solar-powered battery system, according to the company. It’s wonderful to see such significant strides toward sustainability taking place right here, in Florida.”.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The City Council of Landau in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany has approved an agreement with Vulcan Energy (Vulcan) to begin construction of an integrated geothermal energy generation and lithium extraction plant (G-LEP) at the site of the planned “Am Messegelände Südost” business park.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More sustainable and digital: The construction and real estate industry is on the verge of substantial changes. But what will the future of construction and building operations look like? For digital design to deliver its benefits, the stakeholders involved in construction must share their data. Register now.

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Charged

APRIL 10, 2023

Yellow construction machines are beginning to go electric, and this raises an interesting question: Many construction sites have no access to grid power, so how are these EVs to be recharged? The Voltstack 30k is a battery energy storage system that can provide mobile charging solutions for construction sites.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 17, 2024

A project is being run between the municipality of Hague and Dutch grid operator Stedin to develop a battery-powered smart beach electric grid to power the coast of Scheveningen. The new beach battery has a capacity of 360kWh and can power a beach pavilion for two days. Innovation is key to addressing this challenge.

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Batteries Smart Cities Electric vehicle Innovation 105

Charged

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

US-based engineering construction company Fluor has announced that its Advanced Technologies & Life Sciences business line has been selected by Swedish sodium-ion battery manufacturer Altris to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for an industrial-scale sodium-ion battery production facility in Sandviken, Sweden.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Umicore , a Belgian metal technology company, is building a 35 GWh equivalent battery materials production plant in Loyalist, Ontario, for the North American EV battery industry. The engineering and permitting process is ongoing, and Umicore expects to begin construction later this year. billion in co-funding.

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Charged

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has introduced three new electric compact construction machines, bringing its electric lineup to five models. It comes with a choice of battery pack (33 or 40 kWh), and is expected to deliver up to six hours of work per charge, and to reduce maintenance by 30%. Source: Volvo CE.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Cirba Solutions and GM have extended an existing agreement to recycle battery scrap generated by manufacturing and research at selected GM facilities through 2024. The original agreement dates from 2021, and GM has already recycled more than a million pounds of batteries. Source: Cirba Solutions.

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Charged

MAY 30, 2022

Li-Cycle , LG Chem (LGC) and LG Energy Solution (LGES) have agreed to cooperate on battery recycling and sales. Li-Cycle has agreed to recycle LGES’s battery manufacturing scrap and other lithium-ion battery material from its North American manufacturing sites over a 10-year period. Source: Li-Cycle.

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2023

Deere & Company, the maker of John Deere agricultural, construction and forestry equipment, has selected a location in Kernersville, North Carolina, for the construction of a new 115,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. John Deere established its Kernersville campus in 1988.

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Batteries North America HVAC Fossil fuels 92

Charged

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In September, FREYR Battery and Japanese electric motor producer Nidec announced plans to establish a downstream joint venture to produce battery modules and packs. Nidec Energy’s module production is expected to be integrated into FREYR’s Giga Arctic facility in Mo i Rana, Norway , which is currently under construction.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 9, 2024

Spearmint Energy announced completion and start of commercial operation for Revolution, the Company’s 150 MW/300 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in West Texas. The project reached mechanical completion following the delivery and installation of Sungrow’s PowerTitan Series battery energy storage system.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Japanese battery manufacturer Envision AESC has formed a new multi-year partnership with BMW to supply battery cells for the automaker’s next-generation EVs. Envision has committed to invest in a new 30 GWh battery manufacturing plant in South Carolina, which it says will be powered by “100 percent net zero carbon energy.”

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Batteries Lithium Recycling Recycling 135

Charged

MAY 2, 2022

Startup Statevolt, a sister company of Britishvolt and Italvolt , plans to invest $4 billion to construct a new battery factory in California’s Imperial Valley. Once fully operational, the new gigafactory will have an annual battery production capacity of 54 GWh—enough to equip around 650,000 EVs. Source: Statevolt.

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Batteries Lithium Geothermal power Electric vehicle 113

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A development on the west coast of Saudi Arabia is to become the world’s largest battery storage facility and is part of an initiative to power the entire 28,000km2 coast with renewable energy, 24/7. Battery storage is needed to support site-wide energy resilience, providing the power required at night when solar generation is not possible.

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Charged

MARCH 17, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled plans to expand its global battery recycling strategy. The automaker will build its own battery recycling plant in Kuppenheim, Germany, and plans to enlist partners for battery recycling in China and the US. Sustainable battery recycling is a key factor in this, worldwide.

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Charged

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling company founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, is focused on two of the most critical battery components: cathode active materials (CAM) and anode copper foil. Redwood and Toyota began working together to build a closed-loop battery ecosystem in 2022. Sources: Redwood , Forbes

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Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 90

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 29, 2024

From interconnection to market structures, US power grid operators are grappling with an onslaught of battery storage development, which has boomed due to the critical need to shore up variable renewable energy. “We just don’t have experience with batteries,” Moorty added.

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Batteries Construction Power grid Retail 93

Charged

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Volkswagen Group and its recently founded battery company PowerCo SE intend to rapidly expand their global battery business to North America. To that end, Volkswagen and the Canadian government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to identify suitable sites for a battery cell factory in Canada.

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 21, 2023

Battery fires are bad. But there’s something that batteries have that fossil fuels don’t: the ability to monitor themselves. But there’s something that batteries have that fossil fuels don’t: the ability to monitor themselves. All of these batteries are generating heaps of data.” We can guarantee 100%.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you use social media, you probably see a never-ending stream of “articles” insisting that EV batteries wear out in a few years, making the cars worthless, that they can’t be recycled, they’re full of poisonous chemicals, yada yada yada. We haven’t got a great big stock of batteries that we can convert into something else,” said Thomas.

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Batteries Recycling Recycling Automotive 138

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A large-scale battery storage system from Rolls-Royce – touted to be the largest in the Netherlands – is the latest to help the Dutch grid manage its overflow of renewable connections. The battery storage system. Maarten Hofs from Stedin and Ron van den Berg from Alliander will be speaking at Enlit Europe.

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Batteries Europe Power grid Energy 122

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

Construction has commenced on a new energy storage facility in Scotland, part of a drive to maximise the efficacy of renewables and reduce the cost of wasted wind to consumers. “The Kilmarnock South project by Zenobē represents a major step forward in battery storage innovation and will deliver significant benefits to households. .”

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Charged

APRIL 11, 2023

Battery cyclers play an essential role throughout the development of batteries and therefore, are considered an indispensable part of any battery testing laboratory or manufacturing facility. Rapid battery evolution, affordability, sustainability and recyclability are key to delivering the next generation of EVs.

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Batteries Innovation Automotive Transportation 117

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We will guide you through the principles and course of action with an approachable example: A small, battery-powered consumer good. We exemplify material choices and construction technology as well as business model design. Download the white paper today to learn more about circular design.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Energy storage systems manufacturer Off Grid Energy has announced a new partnership with BMW Group UK to create a sustainable, second-life solution for BMW and MINI electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Off Grid Energy’s battery storage systems are presented as a more sustainable alternative to diesel generators.

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Batteries Energy Energy Sustainability 130

Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Lightsource BP is to kickstart construction of a 61MW solar farm in Nottinghamshire next month, marking the renewable energy developer's largest solar project to date in the UK. Renewable energy developer's largest UK solar project to date set to begin generating power from later next year.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries. Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries.

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Batteries Electricity Electric vehicle Recycling 189

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Kyon Energy received approval for a 137.5MW/275MWh battery project that will be located near a substation, charging and discharging as per renewable availability to help shave peak demand from Germany’s power grid. The battery storage project will be located in Alfeld (Leine), Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Origis Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) say construction has begun on the first of three projects in Mississippi with a total capacity of 550 MW plus 150 MW of battery storage. This is the largest battery storage portfolio announced in Mississippi and the largest solar portfolio under construction in the state.

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Mosaic

JANUARY 3, 2024

The data shows the sustainable home improvement industry continues to significantly advance year after year. In addition to federal incentives like the 30% ITC increase for solar, battery storage and geothermal, state incentives include point-of-sale rebates such as a max. Additionally, 3.2 8,000 rebate for heat pumps, a max.

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Charged

JUNE 9, 2023

Jacobs , a US-headquartered technical professional services company, is collaborating with US battery recycling company Cirba Solutions to expand its North American manufacturing capacity for EV battery materials. The goal is to promote a circular, more sustainable EV supply chain.

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Charged

JULY 1, 2021

A number of companies and public/private partnerships are working to build a competitive and sustainable battery cell supply chain in Europe. One of these is the French battery startup Verkor , which just announced an agreement with the Renault Group to develop and manufacture battery cells. Source: Verkor.

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Batteries Europe Startups Sustainability 105

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Mika Takahashi, Technology Analyst at market intelligence firm IDTechEx reviews highlights from a new report on an emerging sector Electric vehicles are no longer a niche oddity but fully mainstream, with many automotive manufacturers announcing targets to phase out ICE construction in favor of BEVs (battery electric vehicles).

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Electric vehicle 147

Charged

MARCH 6, 2024

Construction giant Skanska has completed a 90-day pilot program using the Volvo EC230 Electric excavator on the Purple (D Line) Extension Transit Project in Los Angeles. The goal of the trial was to test the capability of a battery-powered excavator to match the performance of a legacy diesel-powered machine. Source: Skanska

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