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American Battery Factory raises capital to develop LFP battery gigafactory in Arizona

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American Battery Factory (ABF), a battery manufacturer that plans to build a network of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cell gigafactories in the US, has raised significant development capital in Series A funding. Investor FNA Group is a hybrid manufacturing partner that will provide its technology to ABF’s battery cell production.

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Greentown Labs Appoints Four New Board Directors

Greentown Labs

University, utility, and climatetech leaders will help maximize the incubator’s climate impact. 18, 2022 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced the addition of four new members to its board of directors, Gilda A. Somerville, Mass., Thakar holds a J.D.

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Titan AES Technology Increases Battery Lifespan and Sustainability

Greentown Labs

Before co-founding Titan AES, Shawn Murphy (who serves as both the company’s CEO and CTO) worked as the head of Space Science and Technology of Draper Laboratory and the director of Shell’s Advanced Engineering Center Shell TechWorks. Murphy’s solution uses ultrasound technology to accurately measure lithium-ion batteries.

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Greentown Labs and Schneider Electric Announce Bold Ideas 2020 Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

Four startups from North America will participate in the energy storage accelerator program. Salient Energy , based in Nova Scotia, makes a unique zinc-ion battery with a water-based chemistry that is cheaper, safer, and longer-lasting than lithium-ion batteries. Somerville, Mass.,

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October 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Hertz & Tesla | Breakthrough Energy Fellows | Portfolio Company…

Clean Energy Trust

The initiative is providing substantial early funding for scientists developing promising technology solutions in difficult to decarbonize areas, like industrial emissions, cement, steel, and fertilizer. Link Bloomberg’s Hyperdrive newsletter recently highlighted how lithium ion has come to dominate the stationary storage sector.

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THE LATEST: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC BOLD IDEAS CHALLENGE

Greentown Labs

Grid-weak regions and island communities typically have worse access to affordable, resilient, and clean energy solutions than their mainland counterparts – Gridspan Energy’s mobile energy storage transmission (MEST) technology will change that. Prashanthi Sudhakar, Senior Manager of Business Incubation, Schneider Electric.

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What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019

GreenTechMedia

A few states that wanted to incubate storage industries of their own proved that sharp policy really can create new markets in relatively short periods of time. All the headlines made it possible to forget that the scientific pioneers of lithium-ion batteries won the Nobel freakin Prize this Fall.