Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Materials from Scottish-grown seaweed could help to improve the life-span and charge time of lithium-ion batteries used for the likes of electric vehicles, with a new first-of-its-kind prototype already being tested by expert researchers.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Hey, Europe: You Can’t Get to 100% Renewables Without Demand Side Flexibility. But the next lap in this race requires a different muscle: Demand Side Flexibility (DSF) or the capacity to throttle electricity consumption by end customers as needed. Demand Side Flexibility Answers the Call. By Amit Narayan, CEO AutoGrid.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

The news came just two years after the UK celebrated its first full day without burning fossil fuel. At the same time, fossil fuel generation capacity has fallen by a third, as power stations have reached the end of their life or become uneconomical. A constant balancing act. Industry-leading reference case.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

Rio Tinto lithium mining license revoked in Serbia. The Serbian government has revoked Rio Tinto's lithium exploration licenses in the Eastern European country after major protests against the mining giant's proposed activities erupted over environmental concerns, according to reports.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

The complex, which comprises a Lithium Chemicals Plant and a Nickel Chemicals Plant, will process intermediate feedstock from Western Australia to produce high-purity chemicals containing lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and other metals for downstream production of cathode active materials.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It sidesteps the conventional reliance on fossil fuels, instead utilizing biogas derived from biomass and waste , thus promising a significant reduction in carbon emissions. The resulting synthetic graphite is of high quality, suitable for use in lithium-ion batteries , among other applications.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Apart from lithium, there is one material that is currently a fundamental part of all lithium-ion batteries, regardless of cathode chemistry: graphite. Graphite is a strangely unnoticed piece of the lithium-ion battery; it is the weightiest constituent of most installations. We need to talk about graphite.

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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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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. Global coal demand grew by 0.6%

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Liquid air energy storage could play an important role in supporting the UK’s transition away from using fossil fuels for electricity generation. If the UK is to move away from a baseload of electricity generated by reliable fossil fuels, the variable nature of renewable energy must be addressed. Energy storage.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

As the global Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery market is forecast to grow from $57.4 Additionally, the increasing costs of fossil fuels and gas have triggered significant adoption of electrical automobiles, propelling market enlargement. billion in 2023 to $120.65 Norway will halt sales by 2025, France by 2040 and the UK by 2050.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 29, 2023

This clean and efficient fuel conversion method makes fuel cells perfect for powering vehicles, homes and portable electronic devices. Hydrogen fuel cells present a promising option to traditional fossil fuel-based power sources, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on non-renewable resources.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Heatwaves and wildfires caused repeated reliability issues on the California grid last summer, forcing the clean-energy-minded to scramble to fire up fossil fuel-powered plants. Wood Mackenzie's Global Energy Storage Outlook forecasts nearly 1 TWh of total demand from 2021-2030, with the U.S. and China dominating the market.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

Electric cars are undoubtedly cleaner than fossil fuel run cars. The deficit is paid off quickly and even, when with no alternative, the electricity used to charge the vehicles is driven by fossil fuels, they are still greener. Lithium mining. Cobalt mining.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 15, 2022

The pivot to renewable energy away from fossil fuels will help slash global carbon emissions — but it’s likely to put significant strain on the grid, writes Emily Newton. The most popular forms of renewable energy cannot flexibly increase or decrease production to meet demand like fossil fuel-fired power plants can.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

California is looking for ways to keep power flowing to customers amid wildfires without burning fossil fuels. Lithium-ion batteries are good at daily cycling for bill management, but they can’t run long enough to guarantee multiday backup, he noted. A Canadian storage technology startup thinks it has the solution.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

According to a recent Earthworks report, it is already technologically possible to recover and recycle upwards of 90 percent lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper. By reducing overall demand for new minerals and investing in mineral recycling and reuse, we can greatly improve environmental and social outcomes of the mining industry.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Electric vehicles (EVs) could be on track to reach cost-parity with fossil fuel cars within three years thanks to rapid strides in battery development worldwide, which have seen the average cost of lithium ion battery packs plummet almost 90 per cent over the past decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With studies indicating that Canadian power demand could double between now and 2050, the federal government recently proposed the Clean Electricity Regulations to help ensure that Canada’s power system remains both clean and affordable in the years ahead. These options can enable relatively high shares of wind and solar on a grid.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Earlier this month, government figures confirmed that renewables ousted fossil fuels as the dominant source of power on Britain's grid for the first time ever in 2020, supplying 38 per cent of the island's power.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 14, 2022

The report Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Market By Power Capacity; By Component; By End-User; By Region, Segments & Forecast, 2018 – 2026 details the rising demand for lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries. Rising demand. Its analysis provides a look into the LiFePO4 market, detailing its predicted growth.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

The latest funding round boosts Viridi’s value to $700 million, and supports the company’s aim to manufacture point-of-use lithium-ion battery technology at scale. . Viridi said that its Green Machine brand is a lithium-ion pack system intended to meet demands of the construction and heavy industrial markets.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

With decades of accumulated manufacturing experience for portable electronics, lithium-ion battery prices have steadily dropped. Significantly, we found that for a given battery capacity, combining wind and solar further improves the ability to meet peak demand. Competitive markets are wonderful crucibles of innovation.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Of the myths tested, the one with the most widespread buy-in was: “Mass adoption of EVs swaps one problem (pollution from oil and gas) with another (lithium and cobalt mining, dead batteries).” The third most widely held false belief: “The electricity grid won’t be able to cope with the demands of mass EV adoption.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

It is one of the most important, and yet under-reported aspects, of the net zero transition – how are the world’s supply chains responding to surging demand for the commodities needed to decarbonise the global economy? And what does the net zero commodities boom mean for business everywhere? The net zero transition faces myriad challenges.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 19, 2021

“This facility provides a solution California desperately needs and this expansion was able to come online at the right time – as the summer heat intensifies and demand for electricity is at its highest,” Vistra CEO Curt Morgan said in a statement. ” The expansion, which began in Sept.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

Oddly, these public-spirited citizen journalists never mention the far greater environmental impacts of fossil fuel extraction, nor do they seem to consider the fact that e-mobility supporters are in the business of reducing environmental damage, whereas the oil and gas industry has amply demonstrated its indifference to the issue.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2021

Swedish state-owned Vattenfall is aiming to close all its remaining fossil-fuel generation by 2030. “It's a building block to create the business case for the demand,” he said, describing it as “baseload demand.” Demand is king for green hydrogen. “As of now.on

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 26, 2023

Meanwhile, jobs in clean energy surpassed those in fossil fuels for the first time. The International Energy Agency forecasts that oil demand will peak in the next few years, even absent new policies, and that global oil consumption will be just a quarter of what it is today in a net-zero 2050.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The energy transition is demanding a range of new skills, some that can be gained from upskilling but others that must be attracted to the sector. Alternative fuels are needed to power aircraft and heavy vehicles for which battery power is not enough.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Long Island could become a hot spot for replacing old fossil-fueled power plants with batteries. The geography of the island constrains access to electricity; it relies on a fleet of aging oil- and gas-fired power plants to meet peak demand. Lithium-ion batteries do have limits on how many hours of energy they can provide.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Minerals such as lithium and copper are critical for EVs and renewables, but a lack of investment and policy clarity risks undermining the burgeoning market. The expansion of electricity networks to support the shift towards EVs and heat pumps, as well as enhance energy access, also requires a huge increase in copper and cobalt supplies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Latest BloombergNEF report predicts booming demand throughout the 2020s should see global energy storage market hit one terawatt hour by the end of the decade. Growth in the region could accelerate as renewables penetration surges, more fossil-fuel generators exit and the battery supply chain becomes more localized," the report said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

BloombergNEF also expects costs across the sector to remain high throughout 2023, due to high raw material and labour costs, soaring demand for battery packs from automakers, and cost increases across other parts of their supply chain, such as for power conversion systems and balancing services.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

With several lithium-ion battery installations to shift solar generation into later parts of the day, Kauai has gone for as long as nine hours in a day on entirely renewable electricity production. "It At that point, the project will occupy a prime role on the island's grid, which has a peak demand of 80 megawatts.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

The long duration storage sector writ large has an execution problem; technologies that work in the lab, like flow batteries, have had trouble breaking into a market at price points competitive with mass-produced lithium-ion batteries. The e-Zn cell also does not suffer capacity fade like lithium-ion batteries, Larsen added.

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2022

In a paper published in The Geographical Journal , researchers warn that the global supply of sulfuric acid - a critical component in the production of fertilisers which is also used in the extraction of minerals required for lithium-ion batteries - is soon to be significantly outpaced by demand.

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