R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. Primary Global Energy Consumption 2022 ROBERT RAPIER Global energy demand grew by 1.1% Global coal demand grew by 0.6% The growth in demand was largely driven by China (1%) and India (4%). Oil demand grew by 3.1%

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Leading this week’s Smart Energy Finances is investment into CarbonScape, which will bring biographite – a wood chips-based alternative to graphite, sourced from forest waste – to Europe. Do you think these types of alternatives might help prop Europe up for a competitive come-back? shareholding. billion) by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

“As painful as it was to lose, it gave us confidence because we’d valued the market pretty closely,” Bill White, managing director of EnBW North America, told Greentech Media in the summer, adding that the demand from New York and New Jersey equates to “the largest regional offshore wind market in the world right now.”

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2020

UK-based redT energy and US Avalon Battery Corporation have merged to create a new company, named Invinity, which will produce vanadium redox flow batteries, a key competitor to conventional lithium-ion technology that is tipped to become a £3.5bn market by 2028.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

A key point they made in the email was that lead-acid batteries are 99% recyclable, while lithium-ion batteries are recycled at a rate below 5%. However, when I look at the trajectory, I see lithium-ion batteries steadily declining in price, while the price of lead-acid batteries is relatively stagnant. They agreed. Several things.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Fike Blue – the response to battery thermal runaways Concerns about fires due to thermal runaway in lithium ion battery cells have been on the increase – but may now be allayed with what is stated as the “first third party tested solution” to stop such fires. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Have you read? Register now

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Smart Energy International

MAY 15, 2022

The most popular forms of renewable energy cannot flexibly increase or decrease production to meet demand like fossil fuel-fired power plants can. Supply is unable to meet demand in areas with major renewable energy development. The most popular forms of renewable energy are, by nature, intermittent.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It has since built a complete battery materials supply chain in Europe, and is about to build a new cathode and precursor production facility near Kingston, Ontario, which will be its fourth global gigafactory. Charged spoke with Robert Privette, Umicore’s Business Development Manager for North America.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 13, 2023

and Europe and 37% to 45% in China, depending largely on the emissions intensity of the electricity used to charge the vehicle. There are not enough metal and mineral resources to supply electric vehicles” Studies indicate that there are sufficient reserves of key minerals to supply future global EV demand.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. Growing demand for low-carbon supply chains. The sector is also moving towards renewables because they are cheaper than fossil-fuel energy sources.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Of note in October, GM and GE are collaborating to develop a rare earth materials supply chain for electric vehicles and renewable energy input materials, with a focus on setting up supply chains in North America and Europe (and, specifically, not in China, which dominates them today).

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Applying machine learning techniques to data on the condition of lithium-ion batteries during their charging and discharging cycles, the scientists at Idaho National Laboratory report predicting lifetimes and the ways that different designs would eventually fail, which could then be fed back to identify and optimise new charging protocols.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

We have a similar, very large-scale project going on in Ferney-Voltaire in France, which is the largest shallow geothermal project in France and one of the top 10 in Europe. It has been fundamental in Europe for many years, and now in the US, there are regulations that make people look at the carbon footprint of buildings.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2020

Dramatic pricing changes, shifting cost structures, new demand curves and technologies that enable efficient decentralization are driving a dramatic shakeup of the energy marketplace, and new participants are adapting in their own ways. And it is essential to assess those business models which can truly optimize their value to the smart grid.

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Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 81

R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Lithium-ion batteries were excluded from the solicitation. The CEC selected four energy storage projects incorporating vanadium flow batteries (“VFBs”) from North America and UK-based Invinity Energy Systems plc. What is a VFB, and how does it differ from the more ubiquitous lithium-ion battery?

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Batteries Lithium Energy Energy 148

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Scaling up battery production in Europe, advancing e-mobility with battery supply in Japan and a new community solar project in New York, are on the week’s technology radar. Scaling up battery production in Europe. Due to growing demand, we need to increase our production capacity. Register now.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In both the UK and mainland Europe, rates of EV adoption have struggled to keep pace with soaring demand, especially from corporate customers, as a shortage of battery metals and components has further complicated manufacturers' multi-billion dollar efforts to boost their EV production capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Enphase Energy has booked about 50 megawatt-hours of sales of its long-promised Encharge battery in North American markets since launching it in July, tapping a growing demand for energy storage from residential solar customers, and laying the groundwork for a more complete home backup power system set to arrive early next year.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 26, 2021

Driven largely (though not exclusively) by the rapid growth of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing and popularity, the global market for lithium-ion batteries is expected to exceed $100 billion by 2030. With Asia and Europe accelerating, North America needs to catch up—or lose global market share.

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Batteries North America Asia Lithium 52

Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

It is modular and clean, meaning that it allows for onsite assembly for powering industries in North America, using green energy that is also cost competitive with fossil fuels, according to GH Power. It also allows nuclear power plants to operate flexibly, ramping up hydrogen production when electricity demand is low.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 5, 2020

percent compared to 35 percent in the last quarter, largely driven by the share of business in Europe’s lower gross margin environment, where other European and Chinese inverter manufacturers offer more competition and SolarEdge has a higher portion of commercial revenue, CFO Ronan Faier said. SolarEdge reported revenue of $21.8

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Batteries Lithium North America Demand 130

Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

In North America, Europe and China this will take place well before 2030. As such, its portfolio is ideally tailored for future developments in the North American market – where DNV predicts electric vehicles will start outselling their internal combustion engine counterparts before 2030.

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Batteries Electric vehicle Lithium Electricity 78

Charged

AUGUST 16, 2022

Qichao Hu, founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based battery maker SES, recently told us, “It takes about 2 years to build a new battery gigafactory, but it takes at least 8 years (sometimes more than 10 years) to build a new lithium mine.”. It’s across the whole spectrum of materials involved in the lithium-ion battery supply chain.”.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The union is demanding a 40% pay increase over four years, but so far automakers are willing to offer less than half of that. Vehicles only qualify for the full $7,500 EV tax credit if the critical materials and battery components are sourced, produced, or assembled in North America or its trade partners.

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Batteries Investment North America Climate change 61

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The complaint, obtained by DeSmog via a public records request, accused the company of fraud, breach of contract, gross negligence, and willful misconduct, and demanded at least $457 million in damages. In late April, Veolia North America sponsored a dinner at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Boise, Idaho.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 122

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

An update last year from Benchmark Materials Intelligence group noted that 148 of the 200 lithium-ion battery mega factories planned around the world were in China, with Europe and North America boasting just 21 and 11, respectively.

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Charged

MAY 26, 2020

Supply, but also demand. Today, the North American and European auto industry is emerging from its April paralysis. Still, for the industry to recover to anything like its pace at the end of 2019—which to many feels like years ago in “Covid time”—two things must return to normal: supply and demand. China first, then Europe.

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Electric vehicle North America Electricity Demand 139

Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Side-by-side: BYD vs Tesla This news may come as a surprise to those focused on the EV market in North America, but in many ways, Tesla is borrowing BYD’s playbook. sold in Europe during the first half of the year. sold in Europe during the first half of the year.

Energy Monitor 57

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 57

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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Lithium Batteries Hydrogen Investment 72

Business Green

APRIL 29, 2022

But the new data came amidst predictions this week that Indonesia could see a renewed surge in deforestation activity on the back of soaring demand for palm oil driven in part by Indonesia's increased use of the commodity for biofuel production. These demands from investors will only grow louder.". in debt financing for the project.

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Fossil fuels Batteries Carbon Government 36

CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 8, 2019

CleanTechnica has a new report out today, one highlighting the results of several thousand surveys of electric vehicle drivers in the US, Canada, and Europe. This initial report covers findings from North America and the UK.

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