GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Recent years have seen energy storage installations dominated by lithium-ion battery technology around the world. Department of Energy announced an alliance of 11 national governments and more than 60 organizations to speed up the development and deployment of pumped hydro projects around the world.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She didn’t foresee, however, the high energy bills that would result from cranking up the gas heater when her apartment would turn into an icebox in the winter. She hired a contractor to test the apartment’s energy efficiency. She was drawn to its affordability and space. “It It was a great work-from-home spot,” Spears said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

The global economy could face many more years of energy market turbulence if governments do not take steps to turbocharge their clean energy and technology investments, the IEA has warned. The stakes for nations that fail to unhitch themselves from gas markets are incredibly high, according to the global energy think tank.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 6, 2020

Rosen met Isaac a decade ago while working on energy and water issues in the region. “We deal with land, we deal with resources, we deal with politics,” Isaac said in an interview. The 200 megawatt project is first on the docket, but Navajo Power has grand ambitions for massive clean energy capacity in the region.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Europe has inspired the world with its ambitious renewables integration, smart energy trading, and grid balancing. An important new study from Smart Energy Europe (SmartEn) makes the case for increased DSF in Europe to meet aggressive climate action targets. Not true, and today DSF is no longer optional for Europe.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 3, 2020

Although COVID-19 has decimated the energy sector it will disproportionately enfeeble the fossil fuel industry and embolden renewable energy. We can achieve decarbonization by electrifying the energy, transportation, manufacturing and industry. However, Matt also expressed concern that we will miss the opportunity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The policy challenge of tackling free riders, minimising stranded assets, and maintaining competitiveness as the transition takes place. And the political challenge of building public support for what is set to be the biggest and fastest industrial revolution in history. The financial challenge of funding them.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

One of the primary reasons Germany cannot use all of the renewable energy it produces is because the nation’s fleet of coal and nuclear plants is still needed to ensure power system resilience when the wind slows or clouds cover the sun. ” Hawaii already has plans to achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2045.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Renewable energy is set to lead efforts to temper climate change and expand access to electricity. But as the third energy transition gathers pace, a deeper examination of the industry’s supply chains and operational practices reveals a darker side when it comes to human rights. Solar energy’s risk hot spots.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 20, 2021

Managing Director | New Energy Nexus | Oakland, CA. New Energy Nexus is an international non-profit organization that supports clean energy entrepreneurs with funds, accelerators and networks. Our mission is to support diverse entrepreneurs to drive innovation and build equity in the global clean energy economy.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

While governments have a significant role to play in helping usher in these new solutions; in the absence of certain policies, corporates and other stakeholders can make a big impact on the market for these emerging technologies by committing to buying specific volumes of these products.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

By this, we mean that policies should enable companies and sectors to cooperate through trading policies, including use of natural climate solutions and a wide range of technological removals.". million European households, as well as creating two 'Energy Islands', which will both have enough capacity to generate 5GW of power.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

In a unanimous decision this morning, the seven judges on the Supreme Court ruled that the government's 2017 emissions reduction plan - the key pillar of its climate policy - falls far short of the requirements of Ireland's 2015 Climate Act, according to the Irish Independent. The government needs to step up.".

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The price of lithium-ion batteries, which power most mainstream EVs, has been dropping dramatically the past several years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) says that between 2010 and 2019, lithium-ion battery pack prices fell 87 percent. In 2019, they dropped 13 percent more.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Business as usual is not working The report is unequivocal that human-caused climate change is affecting weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe, and is set to get worse without a major acceleration in policy action and drastically increased investment in climate solutions. of warming. of warming.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Banks are also making more money from loans and underwriting to clean energy than to fossil fuels. One memorable headline read, “ Morgan Stanley Doubles Down on ESG Despite the Politics.” The UK retreated on some climate policies , like delaying a ban on combustion engines in cars to 2035. As part of this work, the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The ensuing rush for lithium, cobalt, nickel and other materials to feed the growing demand for battery cars has in led to pollution and environmental damage , as well as political disputes between mining prospectors and local populations and in some instances allegations of human rights abuses.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. to meet the study’s assumptions of doubling its transmission network capacity and creating new interregional and cross-country links to shift clean energy from where it’s most efficiently generated to where it’s needed remains an open question.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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Charged

MARCH 11, 2024

There’s much hand-wringing in the press these days about battery raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. Rare earths are used in nickel metal hydride batteries, but not really to a significant extent in lithium-ion batteries. Also from an energy security point of view. Q&A with MP Materials’ Matt Sloustcher.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Clean energy has the potential to usher a new era of geopolitics, one where the fortunes of nations are no longer bound up with their relationship with powerful petrostates and national economies are not beholden to oil and gas supply chains. How will they react as their main revenue streams are curtailed?

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 16, 2021

Over the past decade, no major energy source has grown faster than solar power. According to the 2020 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity has grown at an average annual rate of over 42% over the past 10 years, translating into a doubling of global capacity every 1.7 energy infrastructure.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

January Cleantech Roundup: Corporations Claim Their Carbon | How Public Chargers Influence Electric Vehicle Adoption | Investor Climate Initiatives Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. a real zinger to throw at a 16-year old.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Hint: it is not sales. but is heartbreak inevitable?

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

China has slammed the European Union's proposed carbon border tax, arguing the policy is in violation of international trading rules. Rio Tinto ready to drop $2.4bn on Serbian lithium project. Rio Tinto said the project would establish the producer as the most prolific lithium supplier in Europe for "at least" the next 15 years.

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

Less than 40 percent of the nation has been mapped in enough detail to support the discovery of new mineral deposits, hampering the Biden administration’s plan to boost domestic mining of energy transition metals like rare earths and lithium, an essential ingredient in electric vehicle batteries.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The global energy system of the future will look drastically different than it does today.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

According to Marketsandmarkets, the global Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) market is expected to grow to $17.5 Afrivolt is developing Africa’s first lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility with a 5GWh installed capacity. The gigafactory will likely be located in Cape Town, South Africa. The key is partnerships, he said.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Slow activity in the utility-scale and commercial and industrial markets hampered growth, At the same time, the residential market had its best quarter ever, according to the new Energy Storage Monitor from Wood Mackenzie and the Energy Storage Association. Another obstacle emerged from the political realm: tariffs.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The transition of oil and gas to deep geothermal is one that requires radical transformation of paradigms, business models, and policies. Wandel durch Handel” 1 : How geothermal in Europe can reconcile the oil and gas industry with inhabitable climate conditions and regain European energy autarchy The world currently emits 37.12

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Battery plant speed bumps As the broader energy transition can attest, it's not a simple matter of retraining workers. Most newly announced US battery plants are formed as joint ventures between US automakers and Asian battery giants, like LG Energy Solutions, SK On, and CATL. Energy Ventures, and Swisscom Ventures.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Energy storage: Ammonia stores at easily-achievable pressures and temperatures and benefits from existing pipeline networks, tanks, tankers and ships. ⚡ Tokamak Energy , an Abingdon, UK-based tokamak fusion energy developer, raised $50m in Series C funding. in Seed funding from NextGen Battery Chem Ventures.

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Grist

JUNE 30, 2021

The electric vehicle or EV revolution owes its existence to lithium batteries, and those batteries have a cocktail of specialized minerals to thank for their high performance. Department of Energy is now proposing that we eliminate cobalt and nickel from batteries altogether. meet its climate targets. meet its climate targets.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

We’ll also touch on some of the recent cleantech investment, policy, and technology news, and more. Last month, investor (and Clean Energy Trust Investment Committee member) Rob Day wrote a piece in Forbes providing an update on the resurgence in cleantech investing. political roadblocks are more significant. Link Credit: U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. Even as our thirst for oil seems insatiable, it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. million b/d in 1986.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

energy market,” Ross Hopper said. ” The martial posture drew strength from this year’s head-spinning transformation of climate politics. But residential energy storage is growing more diverse after the market’s biggest ever quarter. And this year’s SPI included a flurry of new entrants. In the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke Energy’s third-quarter earnings report on Thursday revealed success in managing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on its multistate utility operations. Historically, energy policy in North Carolina has moved in a bipartisan way," she said. Duke’s long-range plans and looming home-state political decisions.

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