The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

With billions invested in some literally explosive recycling technology, Redwood Materials is poised to become a significant factor in meeting that need. Well, not literal gold, at least not much, but there is plenty of lithium, cobalt, and other materials that are good for batteries but hard to find in the earth.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Battery recycling and manufacturing company Ascend Elements (formerly known as Battery Resourcers ) is planning to open a battery recycling plant in Georgia by August of 2022, where it will recycle lithium, cobalt and nickel. It selected the Covington, Georgia site due to the proximity of EV manufacturing hubs and battery factories.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 31, 2022

In two previous articles, I have discussed China’s commanding lead in the rapidly-growing lithium industry. In a nutshell, it’s because China has invested heavily into developing its lithium supply chain, while the U.S. However, a number of companies are working to commercialize a lithium industry in the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

South 8 Technologies has raised $12 million in Series A financing to commercialise next-generation electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries. The financing round was led by industrial venture investor Anzu Ventures along with LG Technology Ventures and Shell Ventures as well as Foothill Ventures and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Energy harvesting brings carbon benefits, Fike Blue to quench battery thermal runaways and a quantum-space collaboration are on the week’s technology radar. “Products like ours, which allow us to eliminate unnecessary energy consumption, represent quick and affordable wins compared to extensive infrastructure investments.”

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Darbytown Storage Pilot Project will test two new technologies as potential alternatives to traditional lithium-ion batteries, both of which could offer strengthened safety features for battery storage. One of the technologies could discharge energy for multiple days.

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Charged

MARCH 19, 2021

“We are scaling a supply chain that was capable of supplying the consumer electronics industry to supply the transportation industry,” Celina Mikolajczak, VP of Battery Technology at Panasonic Energy of North America, told Transport Dive. There’s plenty of lithium around in the ground. Source: Transport Dive.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2022

The deals were signed within days of each other, signalling Pine Gate Renewables’ attempts to look into and invest in lithium-ion alternatives for their battery storage systems. The zinc alkaline cells avoid several issues, that are otherwise known challenges with other battery chemistries, including lithium. ”

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2024

Funding American Battery Technology Company —a startup with technologies for lithium-ion battery recycling, battery-metal extraction, and primary mineral resource development—was awarded $60M in tax credits to accelerate the construction of its next-generation battery recycling facility. tax credit allocation from the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 7, 2024

Form Energy’s technology, offering storage and discharge capacity for 100 hours at system costs declared competitive with legacy power plants is based in essence on reversible rusting.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

The latest funding round boosts Viridi’s value to $700 million, and supports the company’s aim to manufacture point-of-use lithium-ion battery technology at scale. . New investors included Ashtead Group/Sunbelt Rentals and National Grid Partners , the investment arm of investor-owned energy company National Grid. .

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Charged

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Now Toyota has agreed to source Redwood’s CAM and anode copper foil to use in battery production at the automaker’s North Carolina battery manufacturing plant currently under construction. Redwood is making major investments to build a US supply chain for battery components. Sources: Redwood , Forbes

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Charged

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

More than two-thirds of those 30 different electric vehicles will be offered in North America, she said, a subtle indication the company’s BEV onslaught isn’t solely intended for China. GM’s All-Electric Vision GM Invests In Zero-Emissions. This cell has already completed more than 500 deep charge/discharge cycles.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 19, 2020

North America’s Avalon Battery will absorb publicly traded British company RedT Energy through a reverse takeover, pending shareholder approval. Lithium-ion batteries represent 99 percent of new grid storage capacity. ” Given the state of the competition, that may well be achievable.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Department of Energy’s Kate Gordon provided an overview of resources available through the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA), Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and CHIPS & Science Act – the “backbone, lungs and brains” of the clean energy transition. In Moses Lake , Group14 will put a $100 million U.S.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As climate-focused investments experience record growth, corporate-startup partnerships may be our planet’s future. United, a Greentown Labs partner, was the first airline to commit to zero carbon emissions by 2050 and has its own venture fund dedicated to discovering and investing in novel technologies that can help it achieve this goal.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

American Battery Technology Company was awarded a $57M Department of Energy grant to build a $115M, first-of-kind commercial-scale facility to manufacture battery-grade lithium hydroxide from Nevada-based sedimentary resources. Raise Green , a marketplace for impact investing in climate solutions, closed a $1.2M seed round.

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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. More Technology Trending news. Sicily hydrogen innovation lab.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2021

Each of the “Detroit Three” automakers have announced major electric vehicle assembly investments in Canada over the past eight months, and President Joe Biden’s proposed $2-trillion infrastructure plan would pour US$174 billion into developing the EV market. Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler) will invest up to $1.5 Ford Motor Co.

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Charged

MAY 27, 2021

Ford has boosted its planned EV investment by more than a third—it now expects to spend more than $30 billion on electrification, including battery development, by 2030, and aims to increase pure EV sales to 40 percent of its global volume by 2030.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

At the same time but seemingly unrelatedly, we need more plentiful and sustainable sources of graphene (useful for everything from solar cells to battery storage) and graphite (a key component of lithium-ion batteries). What if one technology could address both challenges? The minerals created are more than 99 percent pure.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Grid modernisation initiatives, including the movement to new technologies such as smart grids, are spurring the demand for battery energy storage systems (BESS), according to latest research from Research and Markets. billion by 2026. The report finds that the BESS market in the US is currently estimated at $1.3 through the analysis period.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Leading this week’s Smart Energy Finances is investment into CarbonScape, which will bring biographite – a wood chips-based alternative to graphite, sourced from forest waste – to Europe. The investment round was led by Stora Enso Oyj, joined by Amperex Technology Ltd (ATL) and other partners. billion) by 2030.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Britishvolt has agreed to purchase German lithium-ion battery cell technology developer EAS for €36m, as the UK-based firm looks to continue its rapid expansion in the energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) battery market.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Verdox raised $80M for its electric carbon capture technology, including from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Syzygy Plasmonics closed a $76M Series C to accelerate its delivery of low-carbon hydrogen technology. Advent Technologies announced a $821M project to develop fuel cells and electrolyzers in Greece over six years.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Cleartrace announced a $20M financing round , from several strategic investors, including Greentown partner EDF Energy North America. SiTration raised $2.35M in pre-seed funding , which will support its novel separation processes for extracting lithium, cobalt, nickel, and more from recycled EV batteries. Awards + Recognition.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Currently, the majority of all lithium, graphite, battery-grade nickel, electrolyte salt, electrode binder and iron phosphate cathode material are produced outside the US and China controls the supply chains for many of these key inputs. in 12 states. Anticipated project locations for battery manufacturing.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

A key point they made in the email was that lead-acid batteries are 99% recyclable, while lithium-ion batteries are recycled at a rate below 5%. However, when I look at the trajectory, I see lithium-ion batteries steadily declining in price, while the price of lead-acid batteries is relatively stagnant. They agreed. Several things.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To begin the climb, the Italian utility group is committing half of its annual investments for the period 2020-2022 to the build-out of 14.1 Ever since BP first took up its now expanded investment in U.K.-based Former SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith joined as Lightsource BP's CEO for Americas this year. A sizeable 5.1-gigawatt

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

It also highlights a raft of Indian firms who could be keen to take advantage of the new green hydrogen incentive - including Reliance Industries, Indian Oil, NTPC, Adani Enterprises, JSW Energy and Acme Solar - all of which have previously indicated signficant interest in the technology.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 8, 2020

may have fallen behind Asia and Europe in battery manufacturing, but a number of well-funded companies are looking to get the country back in the game with a technology that could supersede today’s lithium-ion chemistries. “Solid-state is a platform that allows things like metallic lithium as an anode,” he said.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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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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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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2020

UK-based redT energy and US Avalon Battery Corporation have merged to create a new company, named Invinity, which will produce vanadium redox flow batteries, a key competitor to conventional lithium-ion technology that is tipped to become a £3.5bn market by 2028.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Source: Nature Lessons from Corporate Carbon Removal Purchases An article in Nature distilled some useful lessons from analyzing the corporate carbon removal purchase investments Microsoft and Stripe have made (covered previously in the Roundup). Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic has a good rundown of what is in there currently.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

But given technology and market conditions, a substantial portion of renewable power, primarily wind, is pushed to other European countries at peak times as baseload coal must stay online. Utilities investing in inflexible gas generation today could find themselves with stranded assets as renewables penetration levels increase rapidly.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Umicore sees the market trending toward multiple cell chemistries, and believes that its new high-manganese HLM battery technology is a strong alternative to LFP in markets outside of China. Charged spoke with Robert Privette, Umicore’s Business Development Manager for North America. Second, the use of renewable electricity.

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