Renewable Energy World

APRIL 27, 2021

Edelaysen’s grid is served by run-of-river hydropower that varies daily and seasonally, which means the company operates supplemental diesel generators throughout to meet customer demand when it exceeds hydro output. Energy Storage technology is an important educational topic at POWERGEN International and our call for speakers is open!

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Massachusetts currently has more than 300 MWh of installed energy storage, primarily in the form of pumped hydropower storage or lithium-ion battery storage.

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Michael Grossman

OCTOBER 13, 2019

There are lithium-ion batteries, zinc batteries, and redox-flow batteries. All three are battling it out to become the default storage system for renewable energy generated by wind, solar, and hydropower, as well as the electric vehicle market. Lithium batteries have existed for almost 30 years. Affordability.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canada’s hydropower-rich grid is 84% non-emitting with variable renewables (essentially wind and solar) currently making up 7% of the country’s total electricity generation. In addition, Canada has “tremendous potential for pumped-storage hydropower,” with more than 8,000 GW identified at almost 1,200 sites, according to WaterPower Canada.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

The most common type of batteries, those based on lithium-ion, have typically been associated with consumer electronics. In this scenario, overall energy storage capacity increases sixfold by 2030 worldwide, with batteries accounting for 90% of the increase and pumped hydropower for most of the rest.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 15, 2021

Storage solutions for solar energy are varied, but lithium-ion batteries similar to those used in electronics and electric vehicles are the most popular, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. Other forms of storage include pumped hydropower, thermal and flywheel, according to the United States Department of Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 13, 2022

Hydropower developer Rye Development is transforming a strip mine in southeastern Kentucky’s Bell County into the Lewis Ridge pumped storage project. While a lithium-ion battery holds power for a few hours, pumped hydro storage can hold energy long-term.

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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. There are also significant regional variations to bear in mind for the burgeoning global energy storage sector.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

That battery factory, with a planned capacity of 40 gigawatt hours, will run on clean and cheap hydropower starting next year. The demand for lithium-ion batteries is therefore going to 'explode', says Carlsson. In baking ovens, materials for batteries such as lithium are dried. Photo: Nils Petter Nilsson for the FD.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Most grid-scale storage resides in pumped hydropower, which currently accounts for 95% of utility-scale storage in the US. Lithium-ion batteries have historically dominated new storage capabilities, but they currently cannot provide more than four hours of storage duration economically.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 2, 2021

The expected capacity of the system is 34 kWp energy, which is stored in ultralight lithium batteries until needed. Below the surface, the boat creates additional energy through hydropower from propeller rotations capable of generating over 15 kWh at about seven knots.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Much like Duke Energy, however, Southern Company faces wintertime peak electricity demands for heating that are difficult to meet with lithium-ion battery-backed intermittent renewables.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Results show the technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower and natural gas peaker plants. Calculated LCOS that is cost-competitive to pumped storage hydropower and lithium-ion batteries. Sage Geosystems Inc. ,

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Some of these challenges, such as those around the cobalt used in lithium-ion batteries, are well known. Major community resistance against wind farms, and indeed other solar and hydropower projects, has resulted in significant financial costs to renewable sector investors. Social license key to project success.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

In addition, the renewables sector is also currently facing significant supply chain challenges, the research points out, thanks to rising costs and shortages of key materials such as lithium for batteries and key minerals, metals and components needed for wind turbines and solar panels.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

💨 Private equity and O&G bet big on climate tech’s next frontiers: DAC and lithium. Blackrock injected $550M into Oxy’s DAC plant and ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

While carbon prices and low wind, hydropower and nuclear output have helped to exacerbate current electricity market turmoil, the underlying cause of the crisis is sharp spikes in the price of gas, he said. Today, it is natural gas; tomorrow, it could be something else, such as lithium," he reflected.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Further, the results show Sage’s technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower, and natural gas peaker plants. Calculated LCOS that is cost-competitive to pumped storage hydropower and lithium-ion batteries. Cost Competitive LCOS (Levelized Cost of Storage).

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

This compound material, referred to as black mass, contains nickel, manganese, cobalt, graphite and lithium and requires special treatment which will be undertaken by Northvolt in Sweden. Today, the company operates over 20 hydropower facilities throughout Norway, providing around 10 TWh of clean energy annually for its aluminium production.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

This compound material, referred to as black mass, contains nickel, manganese, cobalt, graphite and lithium and requires special treatment which will be undertaken by Northvolt in Sweden. Today, the company operates over 20 hydropower facilities throughout Norway, providing around 10 TWh of clean energy annually for its aluminium production.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Bukaty/AP A bad omen for the future: fossil fuel plant owners bankrolled a referendum in Maine to try and pass a ballot measure to kill a transmission line that would bring in zero-carbon hydropower from Canada.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

  Early-Stage 🔋 Princeton NuEnergy , a Bordentown, NJ-based lithium-ion battery recycling platform, raised $16M in Series A funding from Wistron Corporation, Honda, GS Futures, Traxys North America, Shell Ventures and other investors.   Solar is expected to generate over 318 billion KWh next year in the US.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Yet recurrent shortages of hydropower and a shift away from financing coal by such backers as the African Development Bank are increasing the attractiveness of clean energy.". Total joins European auto giants in €5bn battery joint venture.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In 2020, the LME announced it was exploring the prospect of making low-carbon aluminium its own asset class, after significant pressure from Russian metal producer Rusal, which powers its smelters with hydropower instead of fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2024

In 2022, Bloomberg moved Canada up three spots—from fifth to second place in its global ranking of countries’ overall lithium-ion EV battery supply chain potential, citing, in part, our mineral resources and large hydropower capacity in addition to other competitive factors.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries. Unlike coal and nuclear, solar and wind are variable; they provide power only when the sun and wind are available.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Wind and solar accounted for 14 per cent of US electricity, with hydropower accounting for six per cent, and geothermal sources just under one per cent. The agreement forbids both parties from introducing bilateral export restrictions on minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and manganese.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

An update last year from Benchmark Materials Intelligence group noted that 148 of the 200 lithium-ion battery mega factories planned around the world were in China, with Europe and North America boasting just 21 and 11, respectively. We really need to make sure we've got that recycling piece in place," Rolton acknowledges.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke argues that its wintertime peak loads can't be covered by today's lithium-ion batteries and other cost-effective energy storage options, and that it will need to invest in pumped hydropower, new-generation nuclear reactors, or green hydrogen or other replacement fuels for natural gas to fill in that gap.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 13, 2023

Fly over Hydro Heights, where a pumped storage hydropower station stores energy until it is needed on the grid. Dive into Tidal Town, where energy from the ebb and flow of tides drives underwater turbines. Or follow the path of seawater as it gets pumped onshore to Desalination Station and is turned into drinking water

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 11, 2022

The energy system of the future must successfully utilize large amounts of variable and intermittent renewable energy sources to meet demand for power generation, decarbonization, grid resilience, and energy efficiency.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Storage technologies include batteries and pumped-storage hydropower, which capture […]. Electric energy storage helps to meet fluctuating demand, which is why it is often paired with intermittent sources.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 1, 2020

China's largest solar-plus-storage project has been connected to the grid. How big is it — 500 megawatts (MW)? Nope, we're in 2020 — it's 2,200 MW (2.2

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CleanTechnica

JULY 20, 2020

CleanTechnica recently interviewed Peter Carlsson, Chief Executive Officer of Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturing startup-slash-giant.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 6, 2020

Drivelectric Kenya, a subsidiary of Knights Energy Kenya, is offering Kenyans a platform to switch to electromobility. Driveelectric Kenya’s suite of services is tailored to take away the risks (both financial and technological) for its customers, who like in most parts of the world are new to the world of electric vehicles.

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