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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Canary Media

AUGUST 30, 2023

demand for lithium-ion batteries with recycled metals and materials. On Tuesday, the startup founded by Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel got a big chunk of that funding, landing more than $1 billion in venture investment. … Redwood Materials needs a lot of money to scale up its plans to supply U.S.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 95

Charged

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Battery startup Statevolt has acquired a 135-acre site near the Salton Sea in Imperial Valley, California, for a new 54 GWh gigafactory. The company says it intends to manufacture batteries for EVs and storage applications using exclusively US resources and supply chains as part of its hyperlocal business model.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 12, 2023

Lightweighting has already been a priority as the sector seeks to make internal combustion engine vehicles more efficient, but it’ll become all the more critical with the shift to EVs; EVs are heavier, on average, due to their weighty batteries. Our value proposition is on-demand manufacturing at the unit cost of casting.”

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

American Battery Technology Company was awarded a $57M Department of Energy grant to build a $115M, first-of-kind commercial-scale facility to manufacture battery-grade lithium hydroxide from Nevada-based sedimentary resources. Energy Dome launched its first CO2 battery long-duration energy storage plant.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As the energy transition and electrification of mobility drive the explosive demand for batteries, Christophe Mazeaud, director of Battery Industry Solution , Siemens Digital Industries Software, discusses the key role that a holistic quality program plays in scaling and stabilizing battery production.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 6, 2020

Over the past decade, Geli has seen its software put to use to design, install and operate megawatts of grid-connected and behind-the-meter battery and microgrid projects. Batteries are becoming an increasingly valuable addition to distributed solar projects, and that's true both for homeowners and some commercial customers.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

rooftop solar installer, finalized two utility partnerships to turn home batteries into miniature power plants. Participants will receive $250 for letting Sunrun control their batteries based on signals from SCE. Individuals are paying for batteries out of their own pockets that could prove valuable to the broader grid.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement. Manufacturing.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 5, 2020

Eos Energy Storage spent 12 years building up a technology it says can rival the dominant lithium-ion batteries for storing grid power. Similar startups ran out of cash and fell by the wayside, but Eos has survived, and now plans to leave venture capital behind and enter public markets via merger with a shell company.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Austin, Texas-based startup Group1 boasts a star-studded executive suite. The company, which made its debut at Professor Goodenough’s 100th birthday celebration, is working to commercialize cathode materials for novel potassium-ion batteries. Potassium-ion batteries can provide a viable alternative to bridge this supply gap.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A $100 million investment in residential demand response is redefining what "infrastructure" can be. More recently, they have ventured into new items, like distributed batteries in commercial real estate, as with Stem and AMS. Batteries yield significantly more controllable capacity, but require more upfront capital investment.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

UK startup Britishvolt , which has an ambitious plan to build one of the UK’s few large-scale battery factories, has secured £40 million in new investment from mining giant Glencore. Global battery supply is currently dominated by manufacturers in China, Japan and South Korea, and European governments are keen to catch up.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

Clean-energy entrepreneurs sometimes bemoan Silicon Valley's preference for funding software startups instead of the tough tech needed to tackle problems like climate change and crumbling infrastructure. The Stanford alum founded and led Axiom Exergy, an East Bay startup that raised at least $12.5

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Charged

JULY 25, 2023

As numerous EV execs have told Charged in recent months, the “buy American” provisions of the IRA and BIL are driving massive investments in domestic mining and processing for EV battery raw materials. Now a similar gold rush appears to be gathering speed in the battery recycling field. billion in investment in the last six years.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Grid modernisation initiatives, including the movement to new technologies such as smart grids, are spurring the demand for battery energy storage systems (BESS), according to latest research from Research and Markets. billion by 2026. The report finds that the BESS market in the US is currently estimated at $1.3

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Charged

AUGUST 30, 2021

Battery swapping is an old idea with a troubled history. Better Place , an Israeli startup that was a promising early promoter of EVs, made battery swapping a centerpiece of its strategy—it went bust in 2013. It can act as a drop-in replacement for the original battery design. Source: Ample.

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Batteries Startups Technology Demand 126

AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 25, 2022

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 Loopworm is the first Indian technology startup to farm insects for animal feed. The investment is Omnivore’s second investment under its OmniX Bio initiative, which backs early-stage agrifood life science startups. . Regional fundraising.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger. ” Stem’s role in opening up the behind-the-meter battery market. and abroad.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hawaii's largest utility enlisted a new tool in its quest for a carbon-free electricity system: thousands of batteries installed in people's homes. Hawaiian Electric won regulator approval for a $25 million plan to harness solar and batteries at 6,000 homes across the islands of Hawaii, Maui and Oahu. Venice Beach, Calif.-based

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A Canadian storage technology startup thinks it has the solution. million grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate its long-duration zinc battery for the commercial and industrial market. The CEC grant will help the startup stake a claim on an underserved market, CEO James Larsen said in an interview.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

Sunrun is landing contract after contract to put solar-charged residential batteries to work serving grid needs. On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet. ” Fleets of batteries, meet optimization software.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2023

Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Chinese electric vehicle company Nio and energy giant Shell have inked a deal which will see the partners work together on developing a network of 'battery swap stations' in China and Europe. The partners are aiming to install 100 battery swapping stations in China by 2025 and construct and operate pilot stations in Europe by 2022.

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Electric vehicle Batteries Startups Electricity 92

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

EDF Renewables has acquired PowerFlex Systems , a California startup with technology to manage one of the biggest challenges for scaling up electric vehicle charging: controlling the loads that lots of EVs charging at once can place on the power infrastructure of the sites hosting the chargers. EV charging network provider.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

billion) investment in a cylindrical battery plant. It is said to be the first-ever cylindrical-type battery manufacturing plant in North America. The Korean battery manufacturer will be the cylindrical battery plant’s sole investor. New EV start-ups using cylindrical batteries are on the rise. trillion ($1.4

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on. In 2021, battery manufacturing in the United States totaled approximately 55 gigawatt-hours’ worth of cells, or roughly enough batteries to produce 700,000 EVs.

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Lithium Batteries Recycling Recycling 93

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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Vermont utility Green Mountain Power not only verified the efficacy of residential batteries for meeting grid needs, it saved its customers millions of dollars with them. It already has not a couple hundred, but 2,567 utility-controlled Powerwall batteries sitting in customer homes, adding up to around 13 megawatts.

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Charged

DECEMBER 8, 2021

London-based startup Breathe Battery Technologies has raised £1.5 Breathe will use the new capital to scale up and accelerate the deployment of its intelligent battery management algorithms. Source: Breathe Battery Technologies. million ($2 million) in a new funding round led by Speedinvest.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Ryan Melsert, CTO of American Battery Metals Corporation, speaks at the Circularity Challenge Final Showcase. There’s a huge opportunity—and need—for better lithium-ion battery recycling. That means small amounts of the elemental metals used to manufacture these batteries are ever reintroduced back into the supply chain.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Others have been forced out of business, as with startup Gridco last year. based startup with devices that can alter the flow of power through high-voltage transmission lines. That will include power transfers of up to 500 megawatts from Scotland, rich in wind power, to England, home to most of Great Britain's electricity demand.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2021

Shell will trial a battery-backed ultra-fast charging system at a Dutch filling station, with tentative plans to adopt the format more widely to ease the grid pressures likely to come with mass-market electric vehicle adoption. By boosting the output of the chargers from the battery, the impact on the grid is dramatically reduced.

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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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