Charged

AUGUST 3, 2021

TES, a provider of sustainable technology lifecycle services, has taken over a recycling facility at the Port Of Rotterdam , Europe’s largest seaport, from Battery Recycling Services Netherlands. TES plans to focus the facility on the recycling of lithium-ion batteries. ” Source: TES.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Illustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Smarter tech and new recycling techniques might just mean our EVs get even greener. Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. The solution, or part of it, might come from recycling. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on.

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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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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Fortum has launched Fortum Batterie Recycling GmbH in Germany to provide safe and sustainable electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling in central Europe in the hope of bridging the raw materials gap the automotive industry is facing. Fortum’s battery recycling.

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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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Charged

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Swedish manufacturer Northvolt , which is partially owned by Volkswagen and BMW, announced that it has produced its first lithium-ion battery cell using 100% recycled nickel, manganese and cobalt. The recycling process can recover up to 95% of the metals in a battery to a level of purity on par with fresh virgin material.”.

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Charged

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BusinessGreen reports on the fast-evolving plans to establish a thriving EV battery recycling industry in the UK. Ramping up battery reuse and recycling is increasingly regarded as critical to ensuring climate goals are met in as sustainable and efficient way as possible.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

shares his expectations for the clean energy transition in 2024. The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally. Have you read? This is not limited to the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

A solid state battery, which stores more energy with less materials, can reduce the already decreasing carbon footprint of an electric car battery by a further 24%, the study finds. Solid state batteries could require up to 35% more lithium than the current lithium ion technology, but far less graphite and cobalt are used.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Honda Motor Europe expands partnership with SNAM to recycle end-of-life batteries from hybrids and electric vehicles. The initiative enhances the prospects of old EV batteries being reused in static energy storage arrays, helping to provide grid balancing services and energy networks increase their reliance on variable renewables.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Start-up picks North East as location for its plant as Business Secretary travels to region to visit site of planned lithium refinery plant. UK clean technology start-up Altilium has announced plans to build the "largest planned recycling facility" in the UK for end-of-life electric vehicle (EV) batteries at a site on Teesside.

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Charged

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Giant of Germany plans to establish a joint venture with Belgian-based materials group Umicore , which will build precursor and cathode material production capacity in Europe to supply VW’s battery cell production. Lithium hydroxide from Vulcan. Cathode materials from Umicore. million EVs. “The Next-gen batteries from 24M.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 7, 2022

The Horizon Europe funded BATRAW project has been launched to create new raw material processing from used electric vehicle (EV) batteries. million) from the Horizon Europe programme. The macrotrend of increased battery use, particularly in the mobility sector represents a huge challenge in the push to create a more circular Europe.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Last fall Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt announced that it had raised $600 million in equity to invest in capacity expansion, research and development, and large-scale recycling. It’s important to keep these flows within Europe.”. Breakthrough Energy Ventures was the top investor in 2020. lithium production.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 12, 2023

InnoEnergy, a training skills provider for the sustainable energy workforce in Europe, achieved the milestone nearly two years since its inception in February 2022. Market analysis signals 800,000 workers will need to be trained or upskilled by the end of 2025 to meet the new demand in Europe.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Roughly 30kg of raw materials are used during the life of an EV in the EU, once recycling rates are factored in, compared to 17,000 litres of petrol or 13,500 litres of diesel burned during the lifetime of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, the analysis estimates.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

To combat this, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts sales of up to 44 million electric vehicles (EVs) a year by 2030. Aceleron’s unique, long-life batteries, manufactured in the UK, are designed to be repaired, upgraded, reused and recycled, unlike most batteries which are thrown away when one component fails.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

Despite immense cost cuts and their deployment in the power sector last year more than doubling, batteries need to lead a sixfold increase in global energy storage deployments to enable the world to meet 2030 targets, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The European Commission’s review of the competitiveness of clean energy technologies finds that while remaining highly cost competitive, market shares are falling. Moreover, designing a successful R&I pathway is also key for a competitive clean energy industry and defining clear national 2030 and 2050 targets are crucial elements to this.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Polish power distribution company Tauron has launched an energy storage facility project in Poland, using second-life electric bus batteries to support power grid management. By using them in a stationary warehouse, the battery life cycle can be extended by up to eight years; instead of being disposed, they will be recycled.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Following my recent article – Lead-Acid Batteries Are On A Path To Extinction – I received an email from Battery Council International (BCI), the trade association for lead battery manufacturers, recyclers and suppliers. To summarize my view, I agree that the recycling issue must be addressed. jobs and make a $ 26.3 They agreed.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Swedish lithium-ion battery developer confirms completion of major equity fund-raising round. The European battery sector received a major boost today, after lithium-ion battery manufacturer Northvolt announced it has raised $2.75bn in equity to support the expansion of capacity at its planned factory in northern Sweden.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The chief of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the joint sustainability initiative backed by the world's biggest miners, is confident Europe's drive to shore up mineral security and deliver on climate goals could result in a cleaner and greener future for the global mining industry. "I

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Japanese carmaker aiming for 75 per cent EV sales in Europe by 2030 as it invests in global supply chain for battery technology. The company said it aimed to localise its manufacturing and sourcing in order to make EVs more competitive by expanding its EV hub concept encompassing integrated manufacturing alongside energy management systems.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

Quantum computing to advance solar PV materials How light could boost performance of fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries. Ford’s focus has been on simulating the chemistry of lithium-ion batteries with the eventual goal to improve their performance and safety. Have you read? Ford and Li-ion batteries.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today officially confirmed a plan to cap the revenue of electricity generators whose profits have soared in the wake of the war in Ukraine, claiming the proposal could unlock $140bn to help support those households and businesses hit by spiralling energy prices.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 13, 2023

Clean Energy Canada is a clean energy think tank at the Morris J. Through media briefs, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. and Europe and 37% to 45% in China, depending largely on the emissions intensity of the electricity used to charge the vehicle.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

Last year, saw a collapse in global energy demand brought on by the pandemic—the biggest drop since the end of the Second World War. It might seem like a sombre lead for an op-ed about Canadian energy, but there was something unusual about the drop. While most energy sources struggled, renewable energy actually grew worldwide.

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 19, 2024

Executives from Northvolt discussed the gigafactory company's ramp-up after a slow 2023 and how the company intends to be competitive in the global market, as well as cell technology, recycling, sourcing from China and an eventual IPO.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

Battery storage is set to play a central role in decarbonising the global economy, critical for renewable energy, electric vehicles and other key technologies. The global energy storage market is already worth $59bn and is forecast to grow ten times to $546bn by 2035.

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Charged

JULY 27, 2020

Northvolt CEO Peter Carlsson said last November that the company hopes to be producing 150 GWh worth of cells in Europe by 2030. The Northvolt Ett plant will be powered entirely by renewable energy, and will have in-house recycling capacities. Northvolt aims to use 50 percent recycled material in new cells by 2030.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Breakthrough Energy Fellows: The Right Model for Clean Energy Innovation? Breakthrough Energy recently announced the first cohort of Breakthrough Energy Fellows. Clean Energy Trust works to address this gap, but it’s too large a gap for any one entity to completely fill.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Under the terms of previously agreed deals, the miner is to supply cobalt for the lithium-ion batteries produced in Blyth, and the companies are to collaborate on a 100,000 tonnes per year capacity battery recycling plant in Kent that is expected to start processing used batteries by 2023.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Machine learning based battery charging protocols, propane as an energy efficient and environmentally friendly coolant for space cooling, the remotely controlled Robobug and a new light on nano-level electrical circuitry, satellite observations for energy development in Africa and a zero emission luxury catamaran are on the technology radar.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2022

Jaguar Land Rover is partnering with Italian technology supplier Pramac on a portable energy storage unit with second-life I-PACE batteries. The Off Grid Battery Energy Storage System features lithium-ion cells from Jaguar I-PACE electric vehicle batteries taken from prototype and engineering test models. Have you read?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Sustainability consultancy argues reuse, recycling, and reducing demand for key battery materials can protect net zero technology supply chains from geopolitical instability. It also argues that contrary to some media reports there is no shortage of minerals globally to power the clean energy transition.

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