GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Its allure has proven more durable than energy blockchain, and its commercialization is further along than super-buzzy green hydrogen. Companies interested in this process cover a range of technologies, including pumped hydro, gravity-based, compressed air and flow batteries, as well as current market leader lithium-ion batteries.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2021

Contrary to popular belief, the most important mineral in EV batteries may not be lithium, but nickel. Elon Musk has often said that Tesla’s production of vehicles is constrained by its supply of battery cells, and in 2020 he made a plea to the world’s mining companies: I gotta have more nickel ! “We

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2021

These groundbreaking members are working on solutions ranging from a screen that removes dust from solar panels, to reusable N95 respirators, to blockchain for ESG initiatives, and more. Blue Line Battery designs and manufactures more accessible, more efficient, lithium-ion power batteries for industrial applications. Electricity.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Topl , a Greentown alum, raised a $15M Series A for its blockchain ecosystem that helps companies track and monetize social impact initiatives. SiTration raised $2.35M in pre-seed funding , which will support its novel separation processes for extracting lithium, cobalt, nickel, and more from recycled EV batteries.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Close to 80 per cent of the 1,000 senior executives surveyed in spring 2020 by consulting firm Cognizant indicated that sensors and the internet of things were important for achieving sustainability goals: 72 per cent pointed to artificial intelligence and 60 per cent cited big data initiatives and blockchain as instrumental. (

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Charged

JULY 27, 2020

Last October, BMW announced that it would start buying cobalt and lithium directly from mine operators—the idea is to eliminate suppliers and go-betweens from the supply chain, allowing greater control and greater transparency.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Emerging industries such as offshore wind and lithium-ion battery storage have gone from strength to strength. Erstwhile more novel technologies, meanwhile, such as energy blockchains or flow batteries, have been relatively quiet this year. In some respects, this is no bad thing.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 27, 2024

Bitcoin mines are data farms filled with specialized hardware that solve computational puzzles around the clock for a chance to validate new transactions on the blockchain. You could solve this problem with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but they haven’t advanced enough to be very efficient for long-term energy storage.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Lithium is widely used in batteries in applications from small personal electronic devices up to electric vehicles and large-scale utility energy storage. But there are constant concerns about whether the supply can keep up with the growing demand as these technologies proliferate.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2020

The emergence of non-utility market participants is being enabled by four forces that have begun to converge: advances in information and communications technologies; the movement towards sharing economies; new business models and ownership models; and blockchain-encrypted transaction systems. EV warranties could be cancelled by OEMs.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

New blockchain startup CarbonEnfo hits the market running, the ChatGPT fusion ‘ambassador’ and a graphene nanotube facility in development in Europe for EV batteries are on the week’s technology radar. To support it along the way, it has joined up as a validator to the Energy Web ecosystem.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 14, 2021

ClearTrace ’s cloud-based SaaS solution leverages blockchain technology to track, trace, and manage renewable energy delivery connected to corporate sustainability and ESG goals, while simultaneously creating transactable digital assets for energy and environmental attributions. Transportation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The ensuing rush for lithium, cobalt, nickel and other materials to feed the growing demand for battery cars has in led to pollution and environmental damage , as well as political disputes between mining prospectors and local populations and in some instances allegations of human rights abuses.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Black Mountain Metals is a global battery metals mining company, specifically focused on sustainable nickel and copper mining for lithium-ion battery cathodes. TRANSPORTATION. ELECTRICITY. Smart Resource Labs offers cost-effective, intuitive tools for smarter management of complex electrical systems. PLATFORM SOLUTIONS.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is always good to see more experimentation about ways to make the energy sector more efficient, although it’s a little more complicated than just putting it on the blockchain. Most interesting to me is #10: Electric vehicles overtook consumer electronics as the primary use for lithium-ion batteries. Link Clayton Christenson.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Black Mountain Metals is a global battery metals mining company, specifically focused on sustainable nickel and copper mining for lithium-ion battery cathodes. Applied Bioplastics’ thermoplastic replacement displaces 30 percent of the petrochemical content, resulting in a noticeable reduction in carbon footprint.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. The company is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation partner, including in a collaboration with Veolia to close the loop on lithium-ion EV batteries.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Afrivolt is developing Africa’s first lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility with a 5GWh installed capacity. Mitigating cost through partnerships Setting up a battery precursor facility is costly and one panellist who knows about that risk is Deshan Naidoo, managing director of Afrivolt. Have you read?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. The company is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation partner, including in a collaboration with Veolia to close the loop on lithium-ion EV batteries.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 27, 2021

One argument that often comes up against Tesla and Elon Musk is that they “own child slaves” or “own slave labor.” ” I’ve seen those in my notifications quite often (and randomly, too). But the fact remains that neither Tesla nor Elon Musk owns slaves, nor do they support slave labor or child labor.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 22, 2021

BHP announced that it and Tesla have announced a nickel supply agreement and that it will supply Tesla with nickel from its Nickel West asset in Western Australia. The company stated that this is one of the most sustainable and lowest carbon emission nickel producers in the world. Financial Times noted that this would secure […].

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CleanTechnica

MAY 20, 2021

While electrified and pure electric vehicle sales continue to outpace the new car market, there remain lingering questions around the ethical sourcing and disposal of the batteries that power them.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In Tesla's 2020 shareholder meeting, one shareholder proposal would have required the company to investigate the poor treatment of cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This fourth round of US DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office projects concerns solar–hydro hybrid power plants, other solar hybrid power plants, microgrids, grid storage integration, and blockchain technology.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 19, 2020

SunSpec Alliance (SunSpec) has joined as a member of Energy Web. Today the two organizations also jointly announced a strategic partnership to co-develop digital standards, protocols, solutions, and certifications that support ‘plug & play’ system interoperability for solar PV and battery energy storage technologies.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2020

New York Power Authority–Israel Smart Energy Challenge Winners to Bring Solutions to Scale through Demonstration Projects with New York State's Public Utility.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Blockchain technology is (in the simplest way I can think of to describe it) a time-stamped series of transactions that are linked together, mathematically, to form a "chain."

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