Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

By 2035, VPP (virtual power plant) potential in California is forecast to exceed 15% of peak demand by 2035, representing five times its current capacity, according to analysis from consultancy Brattle Group for AI specialist GridBeyond.

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Charged

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Redwood Materials , the EV battery recycling firm headed by Tesla alum JB Straubel, has created a new web portal that’s designed to enable auto recyclers to quickly and easily get an offer for a used EV battery pack. According to Redwood, the new tool is an important step towards building a circular supply chain for EV batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Battery plants have established themselves in the sunny Southwest, but this week was the first time they won big in New England. That means that these two battery plants offered a compelling enough price to edge out some fossil fuel plants for delivering power on demand. New England has seen a buildout of smaller batteries.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The demand for electric vehicles has never been higher. But the limited availability of raw materials used to manufacture lithium-ion batteries -- the primary power source for electric vehicles -- complicates the transition. Researchers and investors alike believe lithium-ion battery recycling is poised to make a big jump.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

But it can also substantially increase electricity demand at ports. In response to California's electrification push, the state's largest ports, including San Diego, Los Angeles, and Long Beach, are turning to microgrids for energy security and demand flexibility. When completed next year, the $7.1

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Actions by these states to change the direction of energy policy are a powerful confirmation that clean energy is a viable, cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels. For South Carolina, solar PV paired battery storage (solar+storage) can be more than just a tool to reduce demand and offset fossil-fuel consumption.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent comments about the use of batteries for renewable energy infrastructure surprised experts, one of whom described the premier’s comments as possibly ideologically motivated misinformation. Power responded, “Batteries.” Much of what she says about batteries is misinformation,” Jacobson told DeSmog.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Kaluza, an intelligent energy platform, and Flexitricity, an electrical aggregator and demand response specialist, have partnered to provide a new combined grid flexibility service. The Balancing Mechanism is one of the tools that the UK’s National Grid ESO uses to balance energy supply and demand in real time.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

” That’s how a range of clean energy advocates and demand response providers are describing the California Public Utilities Commission’s latest plan to prevent a repeat of the state’s August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 7, 2021

BloombergNEF’s second annual ‘Global Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Ranking’ finds China dominating the ranking, but clearer policy support and increasing battery demand help the U.S. move up the ranking

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

As the global Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery market is forecast to grow from $57.4 billion by 2028, India is set to emerge as a market leader due to significant uptake and favourable policy measures, according to Research and Markets. billion in 2023 to $120.65

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual states to opt out of letting demand response companies enlist customers to turn down their energy use to support the power grid. “But if the aggregations do include demand response, the opt-out can apply,” she said.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

This raises several questions which must be discussed together including: How can we prepare the electricity grid for such a structural change in both supply and demand of electricity? Demand side measures. Electricity supply and demand need to be perfectly balanced for the safe delivery of electricity. Image: GridBeyond.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. Now subsidiary EV Metals Arabia has advanced its plans to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia. Construction is scheduled to commence in Q3 of this year.

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Charged

JUNE 10, 2020

In a newly-released report on the nickel sulfate industry, Roskill forecasts that the expanding EV industry will become the key driver of growth in nickel demand. Over the next decade, Roskill forecasts an explosive growth rate for the consumption of nickel in batteries (mostly in the form of nickel sulfate).

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

million grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate its long-duration zinc battery for the commercial and industrial market. The batteries precipitate little bits of zinc out of a solution while charging, using a windshield-wiper-like tool to clear the plate and make room for more charging.

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Charged

MARCH 4, 2021

Ford CEO Jim Farley says the US government needs to support domestic battery production and the rollout of public charging infrastructure. “We We need to bring large-scale battery production to the US,” Farley said at a recent financial conference, adding that he planned to bring up the issue in upcoming talks with government leaders.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 7, 2022

The Horizon Europe funded BATRAW project has been launched to create new raw material processing from used electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Building battery power How a battery ‘passport’ can foster a sustainable transition to a green economy. The project will also create a prototype battery from the recovered raw materials.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

The authors of the endless articles warning of the environmental costs of battery raw materials are invariably “big fans” of EVs, but they’re naturally concerned that they may not be “as green as they claim.” As demand rises for battery raw materials, EV industry players are working to reduce the environmental costs of extraction.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 3, 2020

where monthly data is available from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), battery electric vehicles are performing well. “I think ultimately the end consumer will be the strongest driver of change,” Peter Carlsson, CEO of battery manufacturer Northvolt, said in a recent interview. But in the U.K.,

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study. Individual cells are formed into modules, which are then assembled into battery packs.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 11, 2020

Energy storage software company Stem will operate a 345-megawatt-hour portfolio of distributed batteries in Southern California Edison utility territory. But it didn’t develop or build these batteries — it’s taking them over from long-time competitor AMS. Managing these batteries isn't a simple task.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

CALSTART says that the surge is coming from a combination of market demand, policies and economics as EV battery costs continue to drop. The large automakers have been pretty slow to offer a variety of models, citing a lack of demand from customers. Ford is making an electric transit van.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

A new briefing from think tank organisation the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) argues that the clean energy transition can be delivered on time and at an affordable cost if supply chain risks are minimised by policy and industry action. Overall supply chain concentration in China (particularly solar PV and batteries).

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

s new electric vehicle tax credit requiring that EVs and their batteries be made in North America, Canada’s EV battery supply chain is in the spotlight. If Canada plays its cards right, a domestic EV battery supply chain could support up to 250,000 jobs by 2030 and add $48 billion to the Canadian economy annually.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2023

million) in funding for V2X and Demand Side Response (DSR) projects. 165,000 ($201,680) to BEVScanV2X, a project led by Agile Charging Ltd to develop technology that could overcome battery degradation by creating a cost-effective tool to monitor and advise best approaches to maximise battery life and financial returns from smart charging.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Google on Wednesday unveiled plans to install its first backup battery at a data center, with ambitions to use the project as a test case for grid service applications. The battery installation is designed to help Google on its quest to meet round-the-clock electricity demand with carbon-free sources by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine. Demand for energy storage is on the rise.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now it's tapping a massive battery to help. The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) last week awarded a competitive contract to developer Neoen to build the "Victorian Big Battery" along the transmission line connecting the states of Victoria and New South Wales. Batteries acting like wires.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

Last year the number of residential battery systems installed in Australia increased by 20%. The 31,000 battery systems that were installed is a remarkable number, considering Australia entered a recession in September last year for the first time in almost 30 years. State-based Solar Battery Rebates.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2023

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) is testing the use of batteries to provide resiliency in part of its grid that are more constrained. The utility said it has just completed a 1MW/2MWh battery project with Ameresco, who will own the battery. Ameresco, Inc., Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Batteries aren’t dead when they come to the end of their useful life in an electric vehicle. Reused or “second-life” lithium-ion batteries still have a lot of juice left in them, but so far the concept of using these batteries in stationary applications has yet to gain real market traction.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A soup to nuts policy playbook can deliver the economic benefits of zero emission transportation. Incentives and policies that drive demand like tax credits and rebates for vehicles and charging infrastructure can be implemented, along with strong zero emission vehicle (ZEV) deployment targets. 2) Flexibility is paramount.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

In the meantime, green hydrogen and batteries pose a rising threat to hydropower plants and their future profits. Forecasting growth in hydropower is always challenging as this depends on a range of policy and commercial decisions and market conditions," David Samuel, senior analyst at the IHA, said in an email. "By “New 1.4-gigawatt

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Fueled by improved economics, increased demand for resilience, and the ever-increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, energy storage installations hit an all-time high of 522 megawatts/1,113 megawatt-hours last year. By any measure, 2019 was a breakout year for energy storage in the U.S. Deconstruction leads to innovation.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

But this did not stop a growing number of states from deciding that the ability to store electricity and release it on demand will be central to maintaining their grid networks amid the rise of renewable power plants. Nonresidential batteries maintained their tepid performance, declining slightly while the rest of the storage market grew.

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