Tesla lithium battery fire hits ‘landmark’ Queensland energy project, sparking political debate
The Guardian: Energy
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Emergency services were called at Bouldercombe, south of Rockhampton, about 7.45pm on Tuesday.
DOE releases $131 million in funding for EV batteries and other transport-related projects
Charged
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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GM hires EV superstar Kurt Kelty as Vice President of Batteries
Charged
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
For the last three decades, the OEMs’ interest in EVs has flapped this way and that in the winds of quarterly earnings and political shifts. If there’s one area in which GM and its buddies need to raise their games, its battery technology. Kelty could be just the man to turn things around.
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The race to mainstream electric vehicles by 2030
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 2, 2020
The price of lithium-ion batteries, which power most mainstream EVs, has been dropping dramatically the past several years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) says that between 2010 and 2019, lithium-ion battery pack prices fell 87 percent. Policy & Politics. In 2019, they dropped 13 percent more. .
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Nth Cycle opens nickel and cobalt production facility in US
Charged
JULY 4, 2023
Nth Cycle , a metals extraction and recycling firm, has inaugurated a 21,000-square-foot refining plant in Fairfield, Ohio to provide a US source of nickel and cobalt chemicals for lithium-ion batteries. This compares with typical material grades of 30-40% nickel and 1-6% cobalt (as per Fastmarkets MHP Index).
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A Battery Giant Is Born: Total and Groupe PSA Launch New European Manufacturer
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Oil major Total and carmaker Groupe PSA have taken the next step in their lithium-ion battery manufacturing collaboration with the launch of a new joint venture company and the first management appointments. ” Batteries’ strategic position in Europe. Phase one could be up and running in 2023.
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Webinar: How Canada Can Become a Global Battery Powerhouse
Clean Energy Canada
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Batteries are evolving. No longer just something that needs changing in your TV remote, batteries are fast becoming the engines of the global economy. In a decade’s time, a battery will likely power your car or the electricity grid that lights your home. Perhaps the biggest opportunity lies in electric vehicles. Andrew Miller.
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How Distributed Energy Could Help Usher In a New ‘Age of Freedom’
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 7, 2020
The world-renowned thought leader, entrepreneur, educator and author accurately predicted the rapid decline in solar photovoltaic costs and lithium ion batteries. Political Climate is produced in partnership with the USC Schwarzenegger Institute. Tony Seba gets a lot of things right. Recommended reading: Rethinking Humanity.
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?The HC Insider Podcast: Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green with Henry Sanderson on Apple Podcasts
Energy Central
OCTOBER 12, 2022
A detailed look at the social and environmental trade offs, politics and geo-strategy behind the Lithium Ion battery and EV revolution Episode 117: AUTHOR BOOK REVIEW: Volt Rush: Winners and losers in the race to green with Henry Sanderson.
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Clean energy technology supply chains must get better, faster, cleaner, says report
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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How ‘green’ are electric cars?
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. However, the mining of cobalt is fraught with political issues. Lithium mining. Cobalt mining.
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Recycling e-waste should be a legal requirement in the EU, says report
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 14, 2021
The report by the CEWASTE consortium – led by the Switzerland-based World Resources Forum – says this requirement should apply to certain e-waste categories, including: End-of-life circuit boards, certain magnets in disc drives and electric vehicles, EV and other special battery types, and fluorescent lamps.
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Smart Energy Finances: Decarbonisation purchasing moves up the ESG agenda
Smart Energy International
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Also of interest is new debt financing for 80 microgrids in India and a successful Series A for Silicon Anode Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, aiming to bolster the market in Europe. Series A for silicon Li-ion battery anode. ESG for utilities: decarbonisation on the up.
6 Out of the Ordinary Energy Concepts from 2020
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Salient Energy, seeking an alternative to lithium-ion batteries. Concerns over the lithium-ion battery supply chain did not disappear in 2020. The team’s Ocean Battery stores energy by pumping fresh water into flexible bladders that are deflated by the pressure of the seawater column when power is needed.
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Xcel Targets $1.4B in Wind and Solar Investments, Outlines Broader Carbon-Reduction Goals
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 30, 2020
In Colorado, Xcel subsidiary Public Service Company of Colorado plans by 2026 to retire 660 MW of coal-fired power units , about one-third of its remaining coal fleet, and replace it with 1,131 MW of wind, 707 MW of solar and 275 MW of battery storage, boosting its renewables portfolio to 55 percent. In Minnesota, Gov.
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Pumped Hydro Moves to Retain Storage Market Leadership
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Recent years have seen energy storage installations dominated by lithium-ion battery technology around the world. Total project costs range between $106 and $200 per kilowatt-hour, compared to between $393 and $581 for lithium-ion batteries, World Bank figures show. A global effort.
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Developer sPower Teams Up With Navajo Power to Replace Coal Plant With Solar
GreenTechMedia
MAY 6, 2020
“We deal with land, we deal with resources, we deal with politics,” Isaac said in an interview. That will require tapping a set of up-and-coming technologies that promise to deliver many more hours of storage duration than the lithium-ion batteries on the market today.
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EV sales hit new record in Q2, as legacy vehicles struggle
Charged
AUGUST 7, 2022
The Bolt is back—after a months-long production pause due to battery problems, the Chevy Bolt EV and EUV sold almost 7,000 units in Q2 to take a respectable 3.5% On the supply side, shortages of semiconductors and soaring prices for lithium and other raw materials are holding back sales. of the EV segment. market share.
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The worst plan is no plan when faced with an inevitable energy transition
Clean Energy Canada
MARCH 8, 2023
This may fall on deaf ears in the throes of a provincial election, but political leaders aren’t judged by their talking points of the day. Our lithium shouldn’t merely be exported, for example. We should use it to make batteries at home, developing our own domestic expertise, research and development outputs, and intellectual property.
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Hey, Europe: You Can’t Get to 100% Renewables Without Demand Side Flexibility
AutoGrid
OCTOBER 27, 2022
More recently, Total SE used the Flex platform to provide frequency regulation from its largest battery, a 25MW/25MWh lithium ion battery. Yet that number could grow by 300 percent if existing regulatory barriers are eliminated and political support, via a specific peak demand reduction target, is secured.
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How to electrify your life when you rent
The Verge: Energy
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
These benefits will vary regionally as different states and municipalities develop their own programs to implement the federal dollars they receive from the law, explained Leah Stokes, associate professor of energy politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The race to mainstream electric vehicles by 2030
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 2, 2020
The price of lithium-ion batteries, which power most mainstream EVs, has been dropping dramatically the past several years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) says that between 2010 and 2019, lithium-ion battery pack prices fell 87 percent. In 2019, they dropped 13 percent more.
Could UK gas power stations still play a role on a net zero grid?
Business Green
AUGUST 16, 2021
Often, the solution here is touted as more efficient use of electricity through increasingly sophisticated grid demand technologies backed by a combination of nuclear power and energy storage from batteries and pumped hydro facilities.
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Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization
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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The next frontier of electric power will maximize renewable energy and storage
Renewable Energy World
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
In a relatively short amount of time, this paradigm has been upended by the growth of affordable renewable energy, both utility-scale and distributed, that does not burn any fuel, and the political, regulatory, and corporate drive to cut emissions. This new era of power has only begun but is already quickly evolving.
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Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid
GreenBiz
JULY 2, 2021
The Biden administration’s infrastructure plan, which continues to wind its way through the political process, includes billions of dollars for power grid investments and the creation of a new Grid Authority to oversee power infrastructure upgrades. Battery systems (powered by renewables) are emerging as a clean alternative.
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'Build Back Better': When is an industrial strategy not an industrial strategy?
Business Green
MARCH 30, 2021
Political opponents branded the move as further evidence that a government with laissez faire instincts remained temperamentally opposed to proactive industrial strategy. Business groups lamented a "frustrating" and "harsh" decision.
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December 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Year in Review
Clean Energy Trust
JANUARY 28, 2022
Gridlock is still a problem, but there is optimism as climate has risen in the US to become a top-tier political issue (as it is already in western Europe).
Decarbonization Through Electrification Creates Jobs
Green Market Oracle
JUNE 3, 2020
Politics and government Implementing broad spectrum electrification starts with government because without the public sector the private sector will not get onboard. The country also leads in battery and energy storage. However, as Sarah explained Canada has not yet figured out how to integrate battery technology.
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'We want to be guiding stars': Inside Polestar's quest to deliver a 'truly climate-neutral' electric car by 2030
Business Green
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
But as EV sales have begun to take off around the world, driven in part by more eco-minded consumers, so questions have increasingly been asked just how environmentally-friendly the supply chain, materials, construction, and use of battery powered cars really is. As the old saying goes: you can't manage what you can't measure.
Human Rights Challenges Flying Below Radar for Renewables
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Some of these challenges, such as those around the cobalt used in lithium-ion batteries, are well known. Inadequate enforcement, corruption and a lack of political will to address these issues are key challenges facing these producing economies in tackling violations.
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Global Briefing: Irish government ordered to strengthen climate plan
Business Green
JULY 31, 2020
It is technologically and economically feasible for us to achieve this - and the Supreme Court has now affirmed that there is no legal basis for a lack of political will," she added. The process, which relies on sea water and lithium as fuel, is carbon free and its only biproduct is helium, an inert, non-toxic gas.
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Managing Director
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
APRIL 20, 2021
They will shape the vision, secure funding and other ecosystem support for new ground-breaking programs, that might include such things as: Supporting inclusive innovation in battery supply chains in Southern California around the so-called Lithium Valley emerging at the Salton Sea. Preferred Qualifications & Skills Requirements.
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Federal Agencies Provide Guidance on Clean Vehicle Tax Credit Eligibility
Latham's Clean Energy Law Report
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Section 30D offers taxpayers a maximum tax credit of $7,500 for a newly purchased EV if the vehicle meets the critical minerals and battery components requirements ($3,750 for each requirement). An automobile manufacturer (Entity A) produces EVs that include batteries manufactured in Japan. 5] Scenario 1.
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The IPCC Synthesis Report: Ten key takeaways for business
Business Green
MARCH 21, 2023
The technologies and solutions required to combat the climate crisis are ready, available and increasingly affordable, the report notes, highlighting the drastic cost reductions seen in solar, wind, and lithium-ion battery production over the last decade or so. It is vital that they recognise the lessons it contains.
MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation
Charged
MARCH 11, 2024
There’s much hand-wringing in the press these days about battery raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. Matt Sloustcher: If you read the EV Tax Credit legislation, the sourcing restrictions on critical minerals are limited to the battery system. However, save some of your anxiety for rare earth materials.
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MIT Study: Transmission Is Key to a Low-Cost, Decarbonized US Grid
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. Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. But a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study indicates that a massive U.S.-wide transmission grid.
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GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Electric vehicle makers and battery manufacturers are making progress in developing new lithium-ion designs, amid persistent concerns over the supply of key materials. Foremost among these formulations is a lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cathode chemistry with eight parts of nickel for each part of cobalt.
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GTM’s Book of Customs, Traditions and Etiquette, Vol. IV: Tales of the Future Grid
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
The lithium-ion cells burned out after seven years of daily cycling, so we turned our fire moat into the low reservoir for our residential pumped hydro system. Traveler: Why not switch to flow batteries when the lithium went bust? Daughter: How did the political leaders react? I think it needs a few more years.
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2023: A Strange, Tumultuous Year in Sustainability
Andrew Winston
JANUARY 7, 2024
One memorable headline read, “ Morgan Stanley Doubles Down on ESG Despite the Politics.” There’s also increasing concern about one aspect of the clean tech transition: There are problematic working conditions in the mining supply chain for clean-economy metals like lithium and cobalt. These are real concerns that should be addressed.
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January Cleantech Roundup: Corporations Claim Their Carbon | How Public Chargers Influence…
Clean Energy Trust
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The challenges around transmission constraints are political , not technological (or, for some, economic?—?there She is not proposing a solution that has political baggage and a specific set of stakeholders what support or oppose it; she is just trying to push policymakers to act on a fairly obvious global challenge.
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Global Briefing: In-person COP15 biodiversity talks braced for delay to 2022
Business Green
JULY 30, 2021
The minister told delegates that applying pressure on countries to deliver quantifiable improvements in resilience to climate impacts could drive adaptation up the political agenda and ultimately boost vulnerable countries preparedness to climate change. Rio Tinto ready to drop $2.4bn on Serbian lithium project.
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How to build Africa’s battery supply chain
Smart Energy International
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
To build a successful battery supply chain, Africa needs to move away from a legacy of mineral extraction and exporting of raw materials to investing in the existing opportunity to partner, beneficiate and manufacture. According to Marketsandmarkets, the global Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) market is expected to grow to $17.5
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China’s Dominance Of Clean Energy Supply Chains Raises Concerns
R-Squared Energy
MARCH 16, 2021
Political leaders don’t like to depend on other countries for their energy supplies, but this is frequently an accepted trade-off due to economic considerations. . At the same time, many of these countries are understandably sensitive about energy security. fracking boom somewhat weakened its monopoly. supply chains more resilient.
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