Renewable Energy World

MAY 20, 2021

Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a deceptively simple sensor system that the lab developed can prevent dangerous conditions from developing in outdoor battery cabinets. The technology reduces the risk of explosions at battery installations, which can damage property or endanger lives, according to PNNL.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2023

from the European Commission’s 2022 EIC Accelerator to advance its CO 2 battery. Partnerships + Deployments Form Energy is partnering with the State of West Virginia to build its first iron-air battery manufacturing facility in the city of Weirton, “a historic steel community with a rich history and knowledge of iron processing.”

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Southern Company also won’t include in its zero-carbon metrics the carbon emissions generated by customers of its natural gas distribution business burning the fuel it supplies them, although it will move to reduce methane leakage and help customers use the fuel more efficiently.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars. In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. It’s also terrible for the climate. Others warm it.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The recipients won out from a list of over 100 applicants for funding and represent a cross-section of innovations, ranging from renewable energy storage and electricity grid developments to methane capture and deposition technologies.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China has also contributed to price declines in wind turbines and lithium-ion batteries. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane. China is also an unparalleled world leader in electric buses.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

BusinessGreen sits down with CEO of the International Council of Mining and Minerals to discuss the battery gold rush and the potential for a European sustainable mining boom. For example, various small-scale lithium extraction projects are underway in Cornwall and the Scottish Highlands.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

conditional commitment to Ford’s battery manufacturing program. 💨 Private equity and O&G bet big on climate tech’s next frontiers: DAC and lithium. Blackrock injected $550M into Oxy’s DAC plant and ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. Other emerging technologies include using biomass to produce syngas and methane cracking. There remain serious sustainability challenges to broad adoption of lithium batteries.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. Kinterra Capital , a Toronto, Canada-based investment firm, closed their $565m debut fund that invests in critical mineral assets for battery development.

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. Mitsubishi also makes lithium-ion batteries for the rapidly growing global market, said Paul Browning, CEO of Mitsubishi Power America.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Yet falling costs for renewables and batteries threaten to leave some of the $70 billion in natural gas capacity planned over the next decade as “stranded assets” unable to earn back their costs, leading more state regulators to demand their replacement with renewables and storage in long-term resource plans.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Hydrogen is also present in compounds like methane and coal. produces annually comes from methane via steam reforming. However, a fuel cell is much different than the giant lithium-ion battery you find in electric cars. This gas could be a potent source of clean energy , and, according to the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

Battery swapping in India raises $33M and Icelandic green fuels production draws $30M. ⚡ Turn2x , a Munich, Germany-based RNG from methanation producer, raised $5M in Seed funding from LEA Partners, Verve Ventures, and First Momentum Ventures. In deals, a Chinese energy storage company attracts $621M. Thanks for reading!

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Redwood raises another $1B for battery recycling and metal alloy recycling attracts $31M. And cow-burp reduction tech is back to tackle methane emissions with a $29M round. 🐄 CH4 Global , a Henderson, NV-based methane reduction feed supplement developer, raised $29M in Series B funding from DCVC, DCVC Bio, and Cleveland Avenue.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Price and battery capacity are bigger hurdles right now than charging infrastructure, speaking anecdotally as someone currently shopping for a car. Additionally, for fast charging, the charging limit is not a result of the actual charger, it is the batteries?—?new Link Wither Methane? Link Credit: U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Solar panels, wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries have all followed this trajectory over the past two decades. Its self-help projects, which include reducing methane leaks and improving energy efficiency, would have amounted to a reduction of 11 million metric tons per year—less than 10% of Exxon’s current direct emissions.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

manufacturing of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and critical minerals processing. $10 A Methane Emissions Reduction Program to reduce the leaks from the production and distribution of natural gas. New funds for air pollution monitoring, including for methane. Companies that extract and process materials like lithium.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters.   In deals this week $145m for lithium extraction, $52m for methane emissions detection, and $40m for sustainable aviation fuel.   This list is far from representative of the biggest methane MRV players.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

  This week, we get nerdy mining ExxonMobil’s lithium announcement - is this lithium’s shale moment? Lithium Mobil-ization Source: Company presentations, Bloomberg Last week, ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation in Arkansas, marking its first major foray into lithium production.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Trumps agenda has been distinctly anti-environment, including loosening restrictions on methane emissions , waiving environmental laws during the pandemic , rolling back fuel efficiency requirements , repealing water protections and weakening the Endangered Species Act. Renewable energy Biden talks about the U.S.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The week ended with a bang rather than a whimper this week, with some hot EV news pouring out on Friday, including XPeng expanding into the Netherlands and Sweden. We already covered some of the other biggest stories, but there are several more below. There are also some good ones from recent days that we […].

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But coal and fossil methane (also deceivingly called “natural gas”) power plants need to be retired more quickly than they have been. Solar power keeps getting cheaper and keeps growing year after year, now accounting for nearly half of new power capacity in the United States.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 1, 2021

102 Projects Across America will Receive Seed Funding to Launch New Ideas to Market That Will Create Jobs.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

By Alex Grant, Principal, Jade Cove Partners, San Francisco, USA, & Paul Martin, Chemical Process Development Expert, Toronto, Canada Exxon first correctly identified combustion of their hydrocarbon products as the cause of future catastrophic climate change as early as 1977.¹

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