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Breakthrough technology for lithium manufacture

Envirotec Magazine

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global sales of new electric vehicles (EV) grew from 3 million in 2020 to 6.6

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JPMorgan Chase partners with EDF to ensure zero carbon energy supply

Renewable Energy World

Financial services firm, JPMorgan Chase and energy company, EDF, have announced a collaboration to help power JPMorgan Chase’s UK offices with 100% renewable electricity. The collaboration will see JPMorgan Chase’s electricity consumption matched to renewable generation on a 24/7 basis.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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UK’s biggest CCU plant opens

Envirotec Magazine

Presented as a key milestone in the UK’s race to meet its net zero targets, a new Carbon Capture and Usage (CCU) plant has been opened in Northwich, Cheshire by Tata Chemicals Europe. TCE is one of Europe’s leading producers of sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate. Liquid CO2 storage at the new CCU facility.

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Saft’s new Intensium®-Shift battery storage system: 30% more energy, lower footprint, maximizing renewable integration

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• New-generation, high-energy 3 MWh lithium-ion ESS is dedicated to shifting applications, allowing better integration of low-carbon renewable production on the grid • Innovative design reduces system footprint and site installation activities by 50%, for faster and more convenient deployment of storage systems • Saft’s new patented technology enables (..)

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Something in the air

Envirotec Magazine

Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) say they have invented an artificial nose equipped to perform continuous bacterial monitoring – a capability they say has never previously been achieved and one with multiple applications in medicine, environmental monitoring and food. ”

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£1.2 million government funding aims for lower-emissions freight

Envirotec Magazine

The winners include Skyports Deliveries, who will use drones to improve island-to-island connectivity in the Orkney Islands, and Electric Assisted Vehicles, who are developing a four-wheel, electrically assisted lightweight delivery vehicle to help reduce road emissions.