Energy Storage News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Enervenue’s new metal-hydrogen ‘vessel’ has “even more advantages over lithium-ion for stationary storage applications”, its CRO has claimed.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

British model and television personality Jodie Kidd, known for her wide-ranging career, has ignited a conversation on the future of automotive power, rallying for hydrogen fuel cell technology as the heir apparent to electric vehicles. She urgently highlighted the necessity of incorporating hydrogen engines to ensure victory in the ICE race.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Leading the charge in this green revolution is Hazer Group, an innovative company poised to redefine the dynamics of hydrogen production. The CDP has begun production of low-cost, low-emission hydrogen and graphitic carbon , marking a pivotal moment for the company.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In an ambitious move toward a greener future, California has made a significant expansion to its order of hydrogen-powered FLIRT H2 trains, reflecting its commitment to sustainability and innovation in transportation.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A Hydrogen-powered version of Honda’s most popular car. The images and video that has recently surfaced of the CR-V hydrogen prototype show a vehicle wrapped in a blue, hydrogen-molecule-camo-like pattern. This unit will convert liquid hydrogen fuel into electricity to power an electric motor.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A big chunk of the money—$60 million—will go to the United States Advanced Battery Consortium to further develop pre-competitive vehicle-related battery R&D. Focus areas include EV batteries using abundant and domestically available battery materials and more cost-efficient battery recycling processes.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 8, 2024

Houston, Texas, is poised to become the focal point of the hydrogen and clean energy industry as it prepares to host the Hydrogen Technology Expo North America in 2024. Admission to the exhibition is complimentary, offering a unique opportunity to interact with pioneers in North America’s #1 dedicated hydrogen exhibition.

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MAY 26, 2023

LithTech, an Australian firm, has announced its 2023 capital raising drive to enhance its magnesium separation process, which increases the brine extraction of essential raw elements, including nickel, lithium, cobalt, copper and natural graphite, used in EV batteries. Source: LithTech

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Norway-headquartered Corvus Energy , a supplier of lithium-ion battery storage and hydrogen PEM fuel cell systems to the maritime industry, has secured an investment from Toyota’s growth fund, Woven Capital. The investment will provide Corvus with more access to Toyota’s expertise in fuel cells and battery technology.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Regarding the prominent issue at hand, it is really true that electric car batteries can be recycled, and there are specific methods that allow for the recovery of up to 95% of the raw materials. Global governments are now insisting that electric vehicle (EV) batteries be designed and manufactured in a manner that facilitates easy recycling. 

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2022

The solar and energy storage developer will be purchasing 2.4GWh of EnerVenue’s nickel hydrogen BESS and 4.5GWh of Urban Electric’s zinc alkaline battery systems. The new battery systems will be implemented in support of the company’s growing pipeline of solar-coupled and standalone energy storage projects across the country.

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2021

Swiss energy storage specialist Leclanché has developed a new line of lithium-ion battery modules for energy-intensive e-transport applications, such as marine, commercial vehicle and railway, and opened a dedicated new production line for their high-volume manufacture in Europe.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 14, 2021

If the 19th century was the age of coal and the 20th the age of oil, the 21st century is starting to look like the age of lithium. Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are now in everything, but have become indispensable to efforts to fight climate change. But the demand for lithium is only expected to grow.

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Energy Storage News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Dominion Energy will pilot the deployment of a novel metal-hydrogen battery, making it the latest new non-lithium technology the US utility is trying out.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Venucia, a collaboration between Dongfeng and Nissan, recently unveiled their USD $137,000 hydrogen fuel cell car, which is an emission-free reimagining of its V-Online internal combustion SUV. The zero-emission vehicle is powered by H2 and a lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery. FinDream is the battery arm of BYD.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, has a broad range of applications across different industries. From fuel cells to agriculture, space exploration to water treatment, power generation to renewable energy storage, hydrogen plays a crucial role in advancing technology and sustainability.

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Charged

JUNE 4, 2023

American truck maker Capacity Trucks , a subsidiary of REV Group , introduced its lithium-ion-powered terminal truck at the ACT Expo in Anaheim, California. It is equipped with a Hyster-Yale powertrain and either a 130 kWh or 260 kWh battery. Capacity’s hydrogen fuel cell electric terminal truck was introduced earlier in the year.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 27, 2020

A zero maintenance and lower cost alternative to lithium-ion batteries, EnerVenue has discovered how to make metal-hydrogen battery technology available to large-scale stationary energy storage applications – even in the most challenging climates

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. The company says solid hydrogen is the key to bringing the solution to the market in as little as a couple of years. The company locked up the H2 molecules to make solid hydrogen. Q2: Who first collected solid hydrogen and when?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 22, 2024

As winter’s grip tightens, EV owners and industry innovators are keenly observing the impact of cold weather on electric vehicle battery range. At the heart of an EV’s propulsion system, the battery’s function is to store and discharge electrical energy that powers the electric motor.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Battery management systems (BMS)—the electronic brains that monitors and maintains lithium ion battery packs—are essential for the safe and efficient operation of the batteries powering a variety of applications, including electric vehicles. Battery packs utilize three main wiring architectures.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is placing a major focus on nuclear hydrogen as a component of the US government’s proposed $7 billion push for clean H2 production. This includes nuclear hydrogen production from power plants in Arizona, Ohio, Minnesota and New York. It requires only recycled aluminum and water as its inputs.

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JULY 1, 2021

Most automakers have abandoned hydrogen fuel cells for light-duty vehicles, but a couple doggedly press on. The new Peugeot e-Expert Hydrogen is a compact utility van that combines a hydrogen fuel cell with a small battery pack. The e-Expert Hydrogen is based on Peugeot Citroën’s EMP2 (Efficient Modular Platform).

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Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Phoenix-based startup that wants to revolutionize trucking with futuristic electric semis powered by hydrogen says it’s developed a new type of battery cell with double the energy density and half the cost of current lithium-ion packs

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Michael Grossman

MAY 4, 2022

Biofuels may be biofuels, and batteries may be batteries. Likewise, lithium batteries, zinc batteries, sodium-ion batteries, redox flow batteries, hydrogen storage, and sub-categories dot the energy storage landscape. Lithium battery companies are Example A in this World War I style combat.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2021

” Now its next milestone could be as one of the first 100-megawatt scale green hydrogen sites in Europe. Moorburg’s green hydrogen future. The initial plan is to establish a 100 MW electrolyzer powered by wind and solar, with green hydrogen production starting around 2025. Demand is king for green hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In the 2010s, lithium-ion batteries. And in the 2020s, it seems increasingly clear it's going to be hydrogen. But hydrogen is a different beast. Assuming we start producing lots of clean hydrogen, and we find a market for it, how will we store it? In the 1990s, it was wind. In the 2000s, solar.

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The company’s Materials segment makes high-performance, high-margin Specialty Polymers and Composites, mainly for automotive (including solutions for lithium-ion and next-generation batteries) and aerospace markets. The new operations will provide material for over 5 million EV batteries per year at full capacity.

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MARCH 22, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has opened a battery pack factory in Bibb County, Alabama, near a plant in Tuscaloosa where the company will soon be building its new EQE and EQS electric SUVs for the US market. The battery system uses a modular design. Forklifts are powered by hydrogen. Cobalt content has been reduced to around ten percent.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Green hydrogen is both an untested and a potentially vital way for renewable-energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for hours at a time, but for days, weeks or even seasons ahead. Most of the early-stage work on hydrogen’s grid storage potential is happening in Europe and Asia, but the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Sicily hydrogen innovation lab. For the birds.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

At the same time but seemingly unrelatedly, we need more plentiful and sustainable sources of graphene (useful for everything from solar cells to battery storage) and graphite (a key component of lithium-ion batteries). What if one technology could address both challenges? The minerals created are more than 99 percent pure.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Spanish utility Iberdrola is aiming to become one of Europe’s top green hydrogen producers with a 200-megawatt electrolyzer project and plans for 600 MW more. billion) green hydrogen partnership to install a total of 800 MW of electrolyzer capacity at Fertiberia plants in Spain over the next seven years. billion ($2.1

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

For every car on our roads to be zero emission by 2050, just under double the current total annual world cobalt production, 75% of the world’s lithium production and at least 50% of the world’s copper production would be required. Lithium mining. Lithium extraction in salt flats in Bolivia uses millions of litres of water.

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MARCH 23, 2020

With the electric vehicle market driving a surge in demand for lithium-ion batteries, research is intensifying to develop new electrolytes that not only ensure battery performance, lifetime, and safety, but also enable high-energy anode materials, such as silicon, and cathode materials, such as NMC 811. Sponsored by Arkema.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This is the third part of a series examining the McMicken battery fire of 2019 and its ramifications for the energy storage industry. This installment addresses the lessons for fighting fires at battery facilities. Proactive outreach to local firefighters has become crucial to the success of new battery projects.

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