POWER Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

has struggled to keep up with the Chinese battery giants, and has also fallen behind Europe in some battery production and […] The post Improving Lithium-Ion Batteries with Silicon Anode Technology appeared first on POWER Magazine. From the beginning of the electrification evolution, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Tees Valley Lithium (TVL), a subsidiary of Alkemy Capital Investments, has received planning permission to build a lithium hydroxide refinery at the Wilton International Chemicals Park in Teesside, UK, following an environmental impact assessment and local consultation over an 18-month period. Source: Alkemy via Battery Tech News.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Battery supplier InoBat Auto and mineral processing firm Green Lithium have formed a strategic partnership to build and operate a large-scale lithium refinery in the UK. Source: InoBat.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Vulcan Energy Resources has successfully developed, tested and demonstrated its in-house lithium extraction sorbent, VULSORB, for use in lithium extraction from the Upper Rhine Valley Brine Field in Germany. Testing has been carried out on live brine from Vulcan’s geothermal renewable energy plant in Insheim, Germany.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Geothermal Engineering Limited (GEL) has announced plans of producing around 10o tonnes of Lithium Carbon Equivalent (LCE) per year from the company’s geothermal projects in Cornwall, UK. High lithium concentrations at the United Downs site had been reported as early as 2021.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Lithium de France has been awarded a new “lithium and related substances” license for a 151-sq. This is the fourth license awarded to the company previously known as Arverne Geothermal before a rebranding that emphasized a renewed focus on combined geothermal and lithium work. parcel in the Bas-Rhin region of France.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Increasing production of EVs will mean increased demand for sustainably-sourced raw materials such as cobalt, lithium, nickel, graphite, manganese and copper. Mercedes is exploring a strategic partnership with Rock Tech Lithium, which is developing a spodumene project in Ontario. Source: Mercedes-Benz.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The COBRA (CObalt-free Batteries for FutuRe Automotive Applications), a European consortium that aims to develop a new cobalt-free lithium-ion battery technology, has chosen Millor Battery to make the prototypes and first batteries. Among these raw materials is cobalt, which is expensive, scarce and not found in Europe.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The geothermal company Hita, a spin-off of the Belgian research organisation Vito reports having discovered Lithium in the water it pumps up from a geothermal well on its project site near Kempen, Belgium. The post Geothermal developer Hita sees Lithium option in Belgium first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

Cornwall is set to become home to Europe's first geothermal lithium recovery pilot plant, with government funding announced this week set to support a project that combines lithium extraction from geothermal waters deep below the surface of the county with geothermal energy generation. Around £14.3m

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The UK’s first large-scale merchant lithium refinery has been announced, providing battery grade materials to bolster the electric vehicle (EV), renewable energy and consumer technology supply chains. Green Lithium, a merchant lithium refiner, unveiled Teesport in Middlesbrough as the site for the forthcoming lithium refinery.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 1, 2024

Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH (Vulcan Energy) has been awarded as the recipient of the prestigious Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2024. The LEOP is a critical milestone in Vulcan Energy’s roadmap of harnessing the geothermal lithium potential in the Upper Rhine Graben.

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altenergymag

APRIL 12, 2023

Ameresco’s portfolio includes energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, asset sustainability, and renewable energy solutions delivered to clients throughout North America and Europe.

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Charged

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Stellantis Group has signed a binding agreement with lithium producer Vulcan Energy to supply battery-grade lithium hydroxide in Europe for the automaker’s electrified vehicles. Vulcan will supply Stellantis with between 81,000 and 99,000 metric tons of lithium hydroxide over the five-year term of the agreement.

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MAY 10, 2021

Geologists have estimated that an area in the Upper Rhine Valley, in the Black Forest area of southwestern Germany, holds enough lithium for more than 400 million electric cars, making it one of the world’s biggest deposits. The trove could reduce the reliance of the German car industry on imported lithium.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

UK-based mineral exploration company Cornish Lithium has secured £53 million (approx. USD 67 million) in investment from the UK Infrastructure Bank along with the Energy and Minerals Group (EMG) and TechMet. The investors also have the option of making a £168 million second-stage investment.

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 12, 2024

The EU is 'stepping up its game on battery gigafactories', European Commission executive VP Maroš Šefčovič said at the Giga Europe conference today (12 March).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Engineering services company Worley to work with Green Lithium to deliver refinery that aims to produce 50,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium a year. Current lithium refining capacity in Europe doesn't match the increasing demand for battery-grade lithium chemicals, which is projected to grow to 800,000 tonnes by 2030," he added.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

EP Cube is an integrated residential energy storage system. The system integrates a hybrid inverter and modular lithium iron phosphate batteries, allowing users to manage energy production, consumption, and storage at home in a smart manner.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The commonly held view that lithium-ion batteries are not being recycled is not true. China recycled around 67,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries last year, or 69 percent of all the stock available for recycling worldwide, according to Hans Eric Melin, founder of U.K.-based based Circular Energy Storage.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Applications include the LytCell lithium-sulfur EV battery, lightweight composites and unique on-board sensors. Lyten’s lithium-sulfur batteries have a 60% smaller carbon footprint than lithium-ion batteries since they do not contain nickel, cobalt, or manganese. Source: Stellantis

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 14, 2024

The COO of one of the few energy-storage focused lithium-ion gigafactory companies in Europe, Morrow Batteries, talked to Energy-Storage.news about the firm's go-to-market strategy and what the future holds for Europe's gigafactory space.

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Charged

JANUARY 11, 2024

Battery manufacturer LG Energy Solution and Impact Clean Power Technology (ICPT), a public transportation battery system supplier, have signed a supply agreement for nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) lithium-ion battery modules. LG Energy Solution will use NCM chemistry to provide enhanced battery durability and range.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Vulcan Energy is set to open their Lithium Extraction Optimization Plant (LEOP) in Landau in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The facility aims to up the scale of lithium extraction from geothermal water from their current laboratory-scale operations. The LEOP is located right at the Landau geothermal power plant.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The French mining company Eramet and Électricité de Strasbourg (ÉS) have inaugurated a new pilot project for the direct extraction of lithium from geothermal brine at the Rittershoffen geothermal heat plant operated by ES in Eastern France.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As part of the Li+Fluids project, a team from the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) will be testing for the technical implementation of lithium extraction from geothermal waters near the Uelzen District in Lower Saxony, Germany. Lithium extraction tests are being carried out here for the first time in the NDB.

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Energy Storage News

JANUARY 16, 2024

European lithium-ion battery developer and manufacturer Northvolt has secured a US$5 billion (€4.6 billion) non-recourse project financing package from various EU and Nordic institutions for its manufacturing and recycling plants.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Spanish utility Iberdrola is aiming to become one of Europe’s top green hydrogen producers with a 200-megawatt electrolyzer project and plans for 600 MW more. To carry out the integration work, Iberdrola this week announced a joint venture with Ingeteam, a Basque energy services supplier. Green hydrogen on the rise across Europe.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Reported from France today, geothermal and lithium group Arverne, created by former oil companies to take advantage of geothermal energy, enters the stock market today. The company specializing in drilling hopes to boost the activities of its subsidiaries, from the production of lithium for batteries to geothermal energy for all.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Tiamat says its sodium-ion technology is lithium- and cobalt-free and cheaper per kilowatt hour (kWh) when compared with lithium-ion batteries. Stellantis’s Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan calls for the company to reach 100% passenger car EV sales in Europe and 50% passenger car and light-duty truck EV sales in the US by 2030.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 4, 2024

Geothermal developer Swiss Geo Energy (SGE) has been awarded a new surface research permit (PRSU) for the GeoCogen La Broye project in the Payerne-Avenches region in Switzerland. It will also include the exploration of lithium and native hydrogen resources, two resources essential to the energy transition.

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EnergyTrend

MARCH 6, 2024

Overview of New Energy Storage Developments AnnualnewinstallationsofnewenergystorageCurrently,theUnitedStates,Europe,Japan,SouthKoreaandothermajoreconomiesfocusonthe developmentofnewenergystorag.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 3, 2022

AI to monitor bird interactions with solar PV, lithium iron phosphate battery production coming in Europe, a lithium mine for EV batteries and the energy infrastructure requirements in the Moon to Mars exploration are on the week’s technology radar. First lithium iron phosphate battery cell prototype in Europe.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Rock Tech Lithium, a company with offices in Canada and Germany, is planning to build a production plant for battery-grade lithium hydroxide in Guben, Brandenburg. Projected annual production is 24,000 metric tons of lithium hydroxide, enough to equip around 500,000 EVs. Source: Rock Tech Lithium.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Well, not literal gold, at least not much, but there is plenty of lithium, cobalt, and other materials that are good for batteries but hard to find in the earth. Ecobat is known as the largest recycler of batteries in the world, a longtime dominant player of lead-acid battery recycling with a growing focus on lithium cells.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Swiss energy storage specialist Leclanché has developed a new line of lithium-ion battery modules for energy-intensive e-transport applications, such as marine, commercial vehicle and railway, and opened a dedicated new production line for their high-volume manufacture in Europe.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 13, 2021

ImpactAlpha, July 13 – Batteries are big as startups and investors bet on the low-carbon energy transition. The post Race for better lithium batteries accelerates with two big raises appeared first on ImpactAlpha. SES, based near Boston, scored $100.

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