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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Developer of UK's first geothermal power plant sets out plan to extract commercial quantities of critical battery mineral from underground brines

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Charged

MARCH 18, 2020

Beneath California’s Salton Sea lies a vast pool of super-heated fluid that’s long been exploited as a source of geothermal power. As the Los Angeles Times reports, David Snydacker, a materials engineer and battery expert, believes he has found the magic formula.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

Cornwall is set to become home to Europe's first geothermal lithium recovery pilot plant, with government funding announced this week set to support a project that combines lithium extraction from geothermal waters deep below the surface of the county with geothermal energy generation. Around £14.3m

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Cornish Lithium Ltd announces preliminary results of geothermal sampling as it announces plans for further fundraising round. Jeremy Wrathall, CEO and founder of Cornish Lithium, said the sampling results marked "an exciting step towards the realisation of low-carbon lithium extraction from geothermal waters in Cornwall".

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Charged

JUNE 1, 2020

to two lithium recovery projects in the Salton Sea region, where high concentrations of the soft metal are found dissolved in the brine produced by geothermal hotspots. The Salton Sea Known Geothermal Area contains an estimated six million tons of recoverable lithium. The second grant, $1.8 The second grant, $1.8

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 1, 2024

The award recognises Vulcan Energy’s innovative project, the Lithium Extraction Optimization Plant (LEOP) from geothermal, designed to revolutionise the production of sustainable lithium in Europe. The LEOP, inaugurated in November 2023, is located at the site of the Landau geothermal power plant in Germany.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

The company revealed this morning it has secured £12m from private equity firm Kerogen Capital and £3m from clean energy investor Thrive Renewables PLC that should allow it to complete work on its flagship United Downs geothermal facility near Redruth.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Department of Energy (US DOE) has published the results of a study done by the Lawrence Berkey National Laboratory quantifying the domestic lithium resources from the geothermal brine in the Salton Sea region in California. resource of lithium due to the brine-hosted lithium in the deep subsurface geothermal reservoir.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

GreenLIB is pioneering a sustainable future by transforming battery waste into profitable, closed-loop solutions within the global lithium-ion battery market. Nth Cycle ’s circular refining method extracts high-purity critical metals of any type, in any state, using just electricity and water.

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CleanTech San Diego

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) is integrating geothermal power and lithium extraction technologies to produce the world’s most sustainable source of battery grade lithium to support electrification of transportation and generate low-cost, renewable energy.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2022

But it will also substantially increase the demand for the so-called energy transition minerals that go into electric vehicles, their batteries and the charging infrastructure — lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel and rare earth elements. The company plans to tap the wastewater for lithium. Alan Majchrowicz / Getty Images.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 6, 2020

Drivelectric Kenya, a subsidiary of Knights Energy Kenya, is offering Kenyans a platform to switch to electromobility. Driveelectric Kenya’s suite of services is tailored to take away the risks (both financial and technological) for its customers, who like in most parts of the world are new to the world of electric vehicles.

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