Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Sicily hydrogen innovation lab.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2020

In Europe, the pairing of batteries with utility-scale solar is still less common, though a peek at the mid-term development pipeline suggests that’s about to change. In northern Europe, solar has a capacity factor of just 12 or 13 percent, according to Buckland. “The gap to fill with lithium is perhaps interesting.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

In independent initiatives the two vehicle manufacturers have been working with Quantinuum’s InQuanto platform for quantum computational chemistry to lay the groundwork for future innovations that can improve the performance of battery and hydrogen powered vehicles. Have you read? Ford and Li-ion batteries.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

  For instance, Tesla claims that its batteries can normally be used without problems for around 200,000 miles in the US and 150,000 kilometers in Europe. Rechargeable lithium-ion cells serve as the main means of energy storage for EV batteries, just as they do for other electronics. The casing is made of steel and aluminum.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Heather Clancy reveals how her biggest 'geek out' moment at COP26 came courtesy of a hydrogen train. The cells run on green hydrogen, supplied by a British startup, and the interior is a model of circularity, including recycled seat frames and covers. The technology, HydroFlex , was developed by a U.K.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The number of announced lithium-ion gigafactories increased in 2022 from 26 to 30 and continues to rise and battery factories are being built with increasing speed across Europe. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. The report finds that the EU is on track to meet the forecast demand for batteries for 2025 and 2030. Register now

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 12, 2022

Paddy Young (Enlit Europe) and Javier Arriola (Iberdrola) discuss the outcomes of the keynote speeches that took place at the Iberdrola Larraskitu complex in Bilbao. For example, Iberdrola may have a plethora of projects across the mobility and industrial sectors, but the Puertollano Green Hydrogen Plant caught my eye.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. But solar panels and electric car batteries need lithium , cobalt, nickel and other scarce raw materials. But in Europe, only 0.1% But in Europe, only 0.1%

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Von der Leyen urged leaders to recognise that the root of the current crisis was not just the price of fossil fuels, but Europe's dependency on fossil fuels themselves. Lithium and rare earths are already replacing gas and oil at the heart of our economy," von der Leyen said. "By This is about autocracy against democracy.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

These are lithium-ion batteries, liquid air, flow batteries, compressed air, gravitational, molten salt and hydrogen to power, with each at different stages of intermediate commercial readiness and locational flexibility, and able to fulfil niche system requirements. “The

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Smart Energy International

JULY 7, 2022

Have you read: First hybrid solar and storage powered town in India Hydrogen hybrid heating system demonstrated in Wales Researchers tackle the biggest problems facing electric vehicles. Wenea, one of the largest EV charging services providers in Europe, has deployed twenty 7-22kW charging bays.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

At a virtual event on Thursday afternoon, the president of Panasonic Industry Europe, Johannes Spatz, said fresh carbon footprint analysis had found that some 86 per cent of the firm's emissions in 2020 were the result of the transport and distribution of its goods to end consumers.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Emerging industries such as offshore wind and lithium-ion battery storage have gone from strength to strength. and Europe , and alternatives such as fusion and small modular reactors remain frustratingly far from commercialization. Green hydrogen. And the concept seems to be gaining fans: Moltex Energy, a U.K.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A new EPIC project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is aimed at accelerating the drying of electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, increasing the energy efficiency of this process and reducing production cost. SEE ALSO: Fraunhofer’s dry coating process for electrodes could make cell production in Europe economical.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

On a global scale the research team predicted that Europe could overtake Korea as the largest FCEV market by 2030, followed by China and Japan. They said the growth of the European market was set to be underpinned by Europe's "aggressive" hydrogen refuelling station expansion plan and FCEV subsidies.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

billion UKRI research council R&D investment in five of the central green economy technology areas – nuclear, renewables, hydrogen and clean fuels, energy storage and carbon capture, usage and storage – has been for research topics classed by the IOP as ‘core physics’ and ‘strongly physics’.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 9, 2022

The solution will include a 6MW/7MWh lithium-ion system housed in six containers, as well as power conversion and control systems. Ocean batteries – storage for offshore power Novel hydrogen storage to be piloted in UK. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 3, 2022

Also of interest: EASE: ‘Lack of a dedicated storage strategy is a missed opportunity’ How Ansaldo is preparing gas turbines for flexibility fuelled by hydrogen. The news comes in as Anslado Energia explores the storage and hydrogen sectors to enable the transition to net zero. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

A four-hour energy storage system currently costs $231/kWh in China, which dominates lithium production and lithium-ion battery manufacturing, according to BloombergNEF. That is 40 per cent less expensive than the average for an equivalent system in the US, and 26 per cent cheaper than in Europe.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The company says solid hydrogen is the key to bringing the solution to the market in as little as a couple of years. The cylinder contains a patented solution of solid hydrogen, which reportedly has more efficient storage capabilities than batteries or liquid H2. The company locked up the H2 molecules to make solid hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is placing a major focus on nuclear hydrogen as a component of the US government’s proposed $7 billion push for clean H2 production. This includes nuclear hydrogen production from power plants in Arizona, Ohio, Minnesota and New York. It requires only recycled aluminum and water as its inputs.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 12, 2022

The basis for the initiative is the belief that liquid electrolyte lithium batteries are reaching a state of maturity and that the next technological breakthrough required to unlock the true potential of energy storage must come from the solid state with its potential to provide an increased energy density.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

A major driver behind the accelerating shift towards EVs is cost, and the report forecasts further falls in lithium ion battery prices is likely to see both the lifetime and upfront costs of an electric car become cheaper than petrol and diesel equivalents from around 2025 on average worldwide.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Germany’s goal of putting 15 million battery electric vehicles (BEVs) on the road by 2030 is currently behind schedule as the global automotive industry struggles to procure key components such as microchips and the basic raw materials used in the manufacture of high voltage batteries including the elements lithium, nickel and cobalt.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

Plus nuclear fusion, French outdoor heating ban, Spanish green hydrogen plant and all the top green business news from around the world this week. The process, which relies on sea water and lithium as fuel, is carbon free and its only biproduct is helium, an inert, non-toxic gas.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

billion clean hydrogen facility in Edmonton is just one recent example of the energy transition becoming our new energy reality. based Ballard Power and Loop Energy are supplying their hydrogen fuel cell technology to countries in Europe and Asia. The recent announcement of a $1.3-billion

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. Enel Chile will supply renewable power for Anglo American’s Los Bronces and El Soldado copper mines and Chagres smelter, Reuters reported.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Today's State of the European Union speech from Ursula von der Leyen may have been primarily focused on fostering European and Ukrainian solidarity in the face of Russia's economic and military aggression, with its stirring declaration that in a war between autocracy and democracy "Putin will fail and Europe will prevail".

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

We have a similar, very large-scale project going on in Ferney-Voltaire in France, which is the largest shallow geothermal project in France and one of the top 10 in Europe. It has been fundamental in Europe for many years, and now in the US, there are regulations that make people look at the carbon footprint of buildings.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The report focuses on the huge economic gains that could arise from the shift to electric cars and vans, but it also highlights further opportunities in the development of hydrogen fuel cells, initially within the HGV industry. And it nods towards possible lithium mining opportunities in Cornwall.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

A cutting-edge hydrogen fuel cell-based power plant recently switched on at a Japanese manufacturing plant could provide a decarbonisation template for other industrial sites to follow. The Kusatsu site has long been a hotbed of hydrogen innovation. We have the technology which can intake green hydrogen and produce electricity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2023

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has unveiled plans for a new Green Deal Industrial Plan designed to "make Europe the home of clean tech and industrial innovation on the road to net zero". We need to improve the refining, processing and recycling of raw materials here in Europe," she argued.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Gridlock is still a problem, but there is optimism as climate has risen in the US to become a top-tier political issue (as it is already in western Europe). RFPs are by design not exciting, but expect interesting stuff coming out of this initiative.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 4, 2019

From our electric-bus manufacturers supplying buses across North America to the Canadian technology that turns trash into fuel now found across Europe, Canada’s clean-energy industries and technologies will keep us internationally competitive. They’ll also keep many Canadians employed. Consider the hybrid- and electric-vehicle industry.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Why we might need to quickly open up new mines in Europe Summary - The EU is currently 75% to 100% dependent on imports for most metals. With the EU's green and digital ambitions raw materials’ requirement requiring 18 times more lithium alone by 2030, this dependence must be reduced. Lithium is one of the newcomers.

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