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Zinc Battery Startup Eos Kept Afloat in a Lithium-Ion World. Is It Ready for the Public Markets?

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Eos Energy Storage spent 12 years building up a technology it says can rival the dominant lithium-ion batteries for storing grid power. Betting on growth in battery deployments is a solid proposition, but Eos occupies the riskier category of challengers to the dominant lithium-ion technology. energy storage deployments.

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Mercedes battery pack plant in Alabama will shorten supply chain, reduce emissions

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Mercedes-Benz has opened a battery pack factory in Bibb County, Alabama, near a plant in Tuscaloosa where the company will soon be building its new EQE and EQS electric SUVs for the US market. Sources: Mercedes-Benz , Electrive , Green Car Reports. Forklifts are powered by hydrogen. Mercedes is also focused on recycling.

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Ice Energy, Thermal Storage Evangelist, Files for Bankruptcy

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As lithium-ion batteries proliferated for grid storage, a small contingent of entrepreneurs pitched an alternative technology: thermal storage, which pre-heats or -cools a building to cut electrical usage during expensive peak hours. The technology is simple and cheap and has helped large commercial buildings for years.

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Greentown Startups’ Biggest Accomplishments of 2023

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Greentown Labs’ 200+ startups are developing, deploying, and commercializing climatetech solutions to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and build resilient communities. SmartAC.com raised a $22M Series B to ramp up sales of its HVAC-monitoring system.

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Axiom Exergy Joins List of Commercial Storage Companies Pivoting to Software

GreenTechMedia

Those downsides can get in the way of the appeal, which is to save companies loads of money on their electricity bills by dodging peaks and demand charges. As such, several commercial battery vendors have shifted their business models , but none have done so quite like Axiom Exergy.

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Leading companies are using IRA tax credits for clean manufacturing and technology. Are you?

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billion to build a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) electric vehicle battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. Solar, wind turbine and HVAC manufacturing In August 2022, First Solar, Inc. Nikola also may benefit from $10 per kilowatt hour if it begins producing batter modules in-house. announced plans to invest up to $1.2 AAF-McQuay Inc.

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Elemental Excelerator to Fund 15 Climate Companies in 12th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production. The why: With demand for lithium growing twice as fast as production, the U.S. Of the $12.5M

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