GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This apparatus, in theory, allows for storing power economically on much longer timescales than is feasible with the lithium-ion batteries prevalent today. It's no accident that investor Alfa Laval is a leading supplier of heat exchange technology. Repurposing proven tech for long-duration storage.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

Italian oil and gas major Eni signed on as lead investor, joined by Capricorn Investment Group and most of the existing investors from last year's $9 million Series A. You need to be compensated the same way natural-gas plants are being compensated.". Market for baseload renewables coming soon.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

EnCap Investments has directed about $37 billion in venture investment into oil and gas companies over its 30 years in business. On Wednesday, EnCap joined energy-focused private equity firm Yorktown Partners in its first “energy transition” investment in Broad Reach Power.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

While it's common for lithium-ion batteries on the market today to discharge their full power capacity for up to four hours, Form's 1-megawatt project will do so for up to 150 hours, an unprecedented achievement for the storage industry. Competing with lithium-ion. The system is designed to operate for at least 20 years.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Have you read: Trina Storage launches grid-scale BESS Consumers Energy invests $100m into Michigan power grid reliability Why a diversity of storage solutions will achieve renewable energy security. These facilities represent a nearly $1 billion capital investment by the company within the Texas ERCOT market. Courtesy of Vistra.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

We’re interested in pursuing long-duration storage because it gives us reliability advantages over traditional lithium-ion batteries,” Brekke said. “We Brekke did not reveal the cost of the project but characterized it as “small” and not involving a significant investment risk. Form Energy has raised $367 million so far from investors.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“If you look across storage [technologies such as] lithium-ion and pumped hydro, there are few commercial projects with a duration of more than 12 hours,” he said. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane. “It’s not economical today.”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

Currently, over 80% of the global sulphur supply is in the form of sulphur waste from the desulphurisation of crude oil and natural gas that reduces the sulphur dioxide gas emissions that cause acid rain.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

” Technologists working on long-duration storage, which proposes to complement wind and solar plants by storing power for many more hours than lithium-ion batteries can handle cost-effectively, have raised hundreds of millions of venture dollars and grant funding and produced an eclectic mix of plausible technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Countries like Germany, Japan, the UK, China, Australia, and others have already made plans targeting Hydrogen production and prices with a series of investments and potential policies being considered. However, given the high capital cost, the investment risk is most likely to be shared under a joint venture arrangement.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

With several lithium-ion battery installations to shift solar generation into later parts of the day, Kauai has gone for as long as nine hours in a day on entirely renewable electricity production. "Now, The state has committed to 100 percent renewable electricity by midcentury. We need long-duration storage.".

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. This difference is mainly due to the Southeast’s reliance on electricity rather than natural gas for heating air and water in buildings, Snider explained. While most U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We’re going to make a major investment to build 1.5 Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries. Using renewables to produce carbon-free hydrogen at the same cost as that from shale gas. million new energy efficient homes.”. Energy efficiency will help, but in 2019 the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The investment covers 40% of the Texas facility’s $1.3B project cost and is one of the largest DAC investments to date.    🏭 Brickeye , a Toronto, Canada-based digital IoT platform for construction sensors, raised $10M from BDC Capital GreenSky Ventures, Brightspark, EDC, and MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund. 

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Surely, she could at least improve her air quality by keeping the gas heater off and purchasing a portable heat pump, an increasingly popular device that uses electricity to move heat in and out of the home. Money is key because electrification isn’t cheap Investing in the right technologies can help, too.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So, it is not the major climate legislation that is in the potential reconciliation bill, but a sizable set of investments in its own right. NET Power is building a new type of natural gas power plant that uses oxy combustion (burning natural gas with pure oxygen) and supercritical CO2 instead of steam in its turbine.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My biggest geek-out moment during the COP26 gathering in Glasgow, Scotland, last week came in the central train station, where I had the opportunity to briefly tour a 30-year-old passenger train retrofitted to run on hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries - up to 300 miles at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Our challenge, now, is to catalyse the urgent action needed to accelerate the world's progress toward that reality by testing and investing in solutions at-scale with transformative potential. In the past two years, confidence has grown that existing decarbonisation solutions can cost-effectively enable a net zero global economy by 2050.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 14, 2021

Some ships already run on batteries, liquefied natural gas or with cleaner ship engines and / or catalytic converters. The fuel cell system has a capacity of 825 kWh and the lithium-ion battery pack of 504 kWh. What else can we do with this investment? Now it is time for a hydrogen-powered vessel.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

All include renewable energy (mostly solar PV but some wind), energy storage (mostly lithium-ion batteries but some lithium ferro phosphate ), and a diesel or natural gas genset. According to Candice Yu, Shell New Energies Business Development Advisor, the project was exactly the profile that it is looking to invest in.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And its ambitions are grand, with a mandate for 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2045 matched by an impressive quiver of policies supporting DER growth, from laws requiring solar on all new homes starting next year to multi-billion dollar EV charging infrastructure investments. Massachusetts.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 14, 2021

Some ships already run on batteries, liquefied natural gas or with cleaner ship engines and / or catalytic converters. The fuel cell system has a capacity of 825 kWh and the lithium-ion battery pack of 504 kWh. What else could we do with this investment? why are we investing millions (if not billions ) into hydrogen?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Each still plans to build new natural gas power plants in the near term, despite the additional emissions they will cause. And each relies on as-yet-uneconomical technologies such as long-duration energy storage, net-carbon neutral fuels to replace fossil natural gas, and carbon capture and storage (CCS), to reach the final goal.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

The Biden administration’s infrastructure plan, which continues to wind its way through the political process, includes billions of dollars for power grid investments and the creation of a new Grid Authority to oversee power infrastructure upgrades. As people invest in new AC systems, they simply must be all-electric.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

This step is viewed by many as a considerably cleaner option than the current conventional methods of H2 production in the United States, which use natural gas reforming in large central plants without any carbon emission mitigation. The DoE’s current estimate for the cost of renewable H2 production is around $5 per kilogram.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Monday’s new contracts includes 585 megawatts of lithium-ion batteries: NextEra Energy’s 325-MW Desert Peak project, Recurrent Energy’s 200-MW Crimson project, and 174 Power Global / Hanwha Group’s 60-MW Eldorado Valley project. became the first to do so last year.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

billion in cumulative investment between 2020 and 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn will reduce DER investments in 2020 and 2021, as solar and storage projects face permitting and installation delays, and as rising unemployment and falling economic activity threaten household and business budgets.

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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. It co-optimizes grid capacity investments and hourly operations costs of generation, storage, and transmission to meet projected electricity demand in 2040. transmission grid.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This rate of growth would require ongoing reductions in PV costs, even as solar reaches cost parity with coal and natural gas. To date, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are responsible for expanding storage penetration, through electric vehicles, residential and other smaller-scale needs.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 Rather than invest capital directly in renewable-energy projects, he wants NRG to provide long-term contracts that improve their financeability. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

With a 40% decrease in climate tech venture investments compared to the first six months of 2022—and growth-stage activity experiencing the greatest decline, even as early-stage deals increased —the data could indicate a reshuffling of the ecosystem. Happy Monday! ICYMI, our H1 2023 funding report dropped at the end of June.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

However, the EIA also revealed that while the use of renewables was rising, so too is the country's reliance on natural gas, which generated 39 per cent of US electricity last year. Last year's investments in new wind farms only add up to 10 GW. But the numbers speak a different language.

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 7, 2021

While they haven’t made the large capital investments of Tesla or VW (which we discussed last month ), they appear to be keeping their options open to make their own batteries if the economics and supply chain considerations push them in that direction (for the time being, they are sourcing their batteries from SK Innovation, mentioned above).

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Although heavy fuel oil is conventionally used in the shipping industry, Sleipnir operates on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Marine Gas Oil (MGO) as pilot fuel and as a back-up. New generation lithium ion batteries will solve many of these issues, where solid-state lithium metal batteries might just be the key.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

. “This project is not only a crucial step in helping us understand the practical challenges of using hydrogen traction power on our railways, but an example of the type of investment Scotland needs to take advantage of the opportunity to build a secure, flexible, cost effective and zero carbon energy network.”

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 19, 2021

So my advice – don’t be patient, look for solutions; find them; invest in them and put your personal efforts, motivation and passion for clean tech and energy into working on solutions. Given the impact of transportation related GHG emissions, investments in clean transportation need to happen now.

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