GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

After years of selling more expensive home battery systems, sonnen launched a new product Thursday to compete on cost with other mainstream options in the U.S. The Germany-based company, acquired by oil major Shell in 2019, designed its sonnenCore system to deliver daily cycling for grid services as well as backup power.

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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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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Yet many are still struggling to understand how to value energy storage as an investment. Global investments of $374 billion a year will be needed to upgrade the grid with enough flexibility to account for the variable power generation profiles of renewable technologies like solar and wind. alone by 2023.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

This latest briefing, “ Better, Faster, Cleaner: Securing clean energy technology supply chains”, makes the case that global supply of key materials and components is sufficient to meet growing demand for clean energy technologies (wind, solar, batteries, grids, heat pumps) over the medium- to long-term.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Oregon-based ESS has agreed to supply SB Energy with 2 GWh of long-duration batteries, a deal reportedly worth at least $300 million. . SB Energy will deploy additional ESS battery systems to support solar power projects in Texas and California, where grid reliability issues have been front and center. “Of the 1.5

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Syzygy Plasmonics and Greentown partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signed an investment agreement. PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada. AWARDS + RECOGNITION ABTC was listed on the Nasdaq as a publicly traded company.

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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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at Skeleton Technologies’ €108 million funding round, with investors such as Siemens Financial Services and Marubeni Corporation, for supercapacitor manufacturing and development of new high-power battery technology, namely the SuperBattery.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 22, 2021

Few would have imagined that normal homes in small neighborhoods would be getting powered by solar energy a few years back. Or for that matter, EVs would be the next big thing thanks to the mass production of lithium-ion batteries. It also helps in decreasing the reliability on grids and makes breakdowns a lesser possibility.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

Minnesota utility Great River Energy confirmed Thursday that it will pilot Form's technology, identified for the first time as an "aqueous air" battery system. The utility sought a resource that would ensure reliable power while achieving a high return on investment and low levelized cost of energy.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Vistra has announced that its DeCordova battery energy storage system (BESS) in Granbury, Texas, is online and storing and releasing electricity to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. Aerial – battery containers. Courtesy of Vistra. Mortenson provided engineering and construction expertise.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The price of battery energy storage systems rose for the first time since records began in 2022, as raw material and component costs soared, and developers and system integrators increased their margins in the face of challenging economic headwinds and soaring energy costs worldwide. link] pic.twitter.com/C55UHprYIv.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally. In Australia, ESS technology will enable the retirement of large coal-fired power stations.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems. The three facilities are located in the West Texas region.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 21, 2021

But widespread EV adoption in the United States faces three critical challenges: a limited battery supply chain, inadequate charging infrastructure, and already strained power grids. Battery Supply Chain: Most electric vehicles run on lithium batteries.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasn’t upset. “I He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

Grid-Scale Batteries Grid-scale energy storage systems include batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, and compressed air energy storage. Nevertheless, grid-scale batteries currently dominate new energy storage capacity additions and typically feature some form of lithium ion technology. Merchant Model.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

They’re also a key dispatchable assets to help meet peak grid demand. Stage 2: ‘reshape’ the demand side of the grid. Deloitte’s second stage, dubbed “reshape,” concentrates on the demand side of the equation, namely shifting electricity loads to match a primarily renewable-powered grid.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

When Eric Dresselhuys got a call from the board of directors at ESS earlier this spring asking him to come on as Chief Executive Officer of the company that provides an Iron Flow Battery (IFB) for long-duration storage, he didn’t hesitate. “It We want to take the carbon out of not just the power system but the economy.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. PolyJoule develops low-cost, high-power energy storage designed to strengthen the power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The second project is the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project, which will invest roughly $1 billion to develop a nearby underground salt dome to store compressed hydrogen. How do you aggregate that demand to create sufficient momentum in the market to drive investment?".

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Instead, the greatest expansion in energy storage over the last decade has been in batteries. There has also been growth in the number of energy storage projects outside of lithium-ion batteries, such as compressed air energy storage and flywheel storage. Gretchen Whitmer and the MPSC of the MI Power Grid initiative.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Tesla’s co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 09/02/2020 – 01:30 This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about electric vehicle batteries and the massive potential for battery recycling and reuse.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Ford hit the brakes on construction of a new EV battery plant in Michigan last week as union workers escalated the strike against Detroit’s big three automakers. The US OEMs say they can't include planned battery production facilities in the labor contract negotiations, but the EV transition still looms large over the talks.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Link A gigantic battery procurement is underway in California.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Minerals such as lithium and copper are critical for EVs and renewables, but a lack of investment and policy clarity risks undermining the burgeoning market. The challenges are not insurmountable, but governments must give clear signals about how they plan to turn their climate pledges into action," said Birol.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Unlike coal and nuclear, solar and wind are variable; they provide power only when the sun and wind are available. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That puts the Southeast ahead of other regions of the country in terms of transitioning heating loads from fossil fuels to electricity, but it also puts a strain on the power grid to meet peak heating needs. The heat pumps used by many Duke customers are very efficient when temperatures are above or near freezing, Snider said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Market reforms needed to stimulate investment in projects capable of storing electricity for four hours or longer, according to Aurora Energy Research. Mark Wilson, CEO of clean energy developer ILI Group, said market reforms would unlock the investment case for a raft of LDES projects across the UK.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

The Act allows the federal government to directly order manufacture production in order to enhance national defence and has been used in recent years to produce medical equipment in response to the coronavirus pandemic, boost production of lithium and other raw materials for the electric vehicle market, and tackle shortages of baby formula.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We’re going to make a major investment to build 1.5 He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

But underneath the bonnet of that central contention, there is a huge amount of important and knotty details contained in the CCC's 130-page assessment that present major implications for policy, investment, and green business. Moreover, for climate and energy security reasons, a net zero power grid is essentially non-negotiable.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Clearly, there is much to do to drive investment and adoption of EVs and associated infrastructure in developing nations if the world is to avoid the worst climate change scenarios. Investments and public policy should therefore reflect that - and urgently. Huge investment needed - but perhaps not as much as it looks.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

After more than a decade of being overshadowed by lithium-ion battery technology - a phenomenon Bamford pins on Tesla founder Elon Musk, a man he stresses is "not an engineer or a manufacturer" - hydrogen cell technology is having a moment. We don't make batteries. We don't own any of the chemistry that makes batteries.

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