Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Syzygy Plasmonics and Greentown partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signed an investment agreement. PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada. SkyH2O will build its first full-scale water generation plants in the Houston, TX area.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Additional drivers include the modernisation of the grid, represented by novel technologies such as smart grids where batteries aid in the capabilities of such technology. Other drivers include the rising use of energy storage systems based on lithium-ion batteries and use of grid energy storage solutions.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally. Acknowledging that the world at the end of 2023 is an increasingly challenging one, Eric Dresselhuys of ESS Inc.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 22, 2021

Few would have imagined that normal homes in small neighborhoods would be getting powered by solar energy a few years back. Or for that matter, EVs would be the next big thing thanks to the mass production of lithium-ion batteries. It also helps in decreasing the reliability on grids and makes breakdowns a lesser possibility.

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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.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems. The three facilities are located in the West Texas region.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Minerals such as lithium and copper are critical for EVs and renewables, but a lack of investment and policy clarity risks undermining the burgeoning market. The challenges are not insurmountable, but governments must give clear signals about how they plan to turn their climate pledges into action," said Birol.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

Grid-Scale Batteries Grid-scale energy storage systems include batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, and compressed air energy storage. Nevertheless, grid-scale batteries currently dominate new energy storage capacity additions and typically feature some form of lithium ion technology. Merchant Model.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Utility-scale battery storage capacity has soared over the past 10 or so years, from almost nothing before 2010 to nearly 1,000 megawatts today, driven in large part by lithium-ion battery storage, as the price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen 85 percent since 2010. Gretchen Whitmer and the MPSC of the MI Power Grid initiative.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

But batteries undeniably remain the most common form of energy storage and are widely regarded as a critical component of the net zero transition and an enabler of both vehicle electrification and cleaner, more efficient grids dominated by intermittent solar and wind power.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Series B for AI-powered grid analytics Amperon Holdings has secured $20 million in Series B funding led by Energize Capital, to unlock more value from grid data and advance electricity forecasting. Great Power’s battery cells have been extensively evaluated and are being thoroughly validated.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Market reforms needed to stimulate investment in projects capable of storing electricity for four hours or longer, according to Aurora Energy Research. Mark Wilson, CEO of clean energy developer ILI Group, said market reforms would unlock the investment case for a raft of LDES projects across the UK.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That puts the Southeast ahead of other regions of the country in terms of transitioning heating loads from fossil fuels to electricity, but it also puts a strain on the power grid to meet peak heating needs. The heat pumps used by many Duke customers are very efficient when temperatures are above or near freezing, Snider said.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Wärtsilä defines the goal of 100 percent decarbonization as a carbon-neutral power grid with a combination of generation resources — the vast majority of which would be wind and solar — as well as ample amounts of battery storage, demand response and flexible gas power, which will ultimately run on carbon-free renewable fuels.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We’re going to make a major investment to build 1.5 He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Clearly, there is much to do to drive investment and adoption of EVs and associated infrastructure in developing nations if the world is to avoid the worst climate change scenarios. Investments and public policy should therefore reflect that - and urgently. Huge investment needed - but perhaps not as much as it looks.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now. As people invest in new AC systems, they simply must be all-electric. Climate crisis = not fun.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A few reasons: Battery materials are very valuable, and a lot of money is invested into pulling those metals out of the ground. After electric car batteries aren’t very good at moving a car anymore, they can be taken and used for other applications, such as for the power grid, potentially for several years.

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Charged

JULY 28, 2023

The battery systems will use lithium-ion cells with lithium titanate (LTO), lithium iron phosphate (LFP) and nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) chemistries. A 1 MWh energy storage facility is also planned for the PV plant and power grid. Source: Impact Clean Power Technology

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Over the years, there have been accusations of poor treatment of the Indigenous population surrounding a lithium mine in Argentina, a dirty source of graphite from China and cobalt mined under harsh conditions. Charging stations One of the prevalent arguments regarding EVs is the fact that they charge using electrical power.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

The good news is many of the biggest cloud computing and data center providers have continued to focus on improving energy efficiency alongside their investments in sourcing renewable energy. It's moving to lithium-ion battery technologies and deploying artificial intelligence to help with that mission, he said. A model for the future?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

SuperBattery & supercapacitor financing Skeleton Technologies, which develops fast-charging energy storage for transportation, grid, automotive and industrial applications, has announced the closing of a €108 million ($114 million) funding round to develop next-generation tech, including new high-power battery technology.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

But underneath the bonnet of that central contention, there is a huge amount of important and knotty details contained in the CCC's 130-page assessment that present major implications for policy, investment, and green business. Moreover, for climate and energy security reasons, a net zero power grid is essentially non-negotiable.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In other words, the rules that allow home batteries to participate in grid services are evolving in real time due to state policy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Rule 2222. grid doesn't work as well as Germany's either. customers eager to keep the lights on when the power grid fails.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

While lithium-ion batteries paired with new solar and wind is a cost-effective solution in many markets today, closing the remaining storage capacity gap will require “additional revenue streams,” from wholesale market participation to tighter integration of behind-the-meter batteries.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Dresselhuys sees great growth for long-duration storage, which he defines as energy storage technology that can take energy, most likely produced by renewable sources like wind and solar, and store it for a very long time, well beyond the understood and accepted maximum of four hours that lithium-ion technology is used for. “We’re

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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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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Black Mountain Metals is a global battery metals mining company, specifically focused on sustainable nickel and copper mining for lithium-ion battery cathodes. Excipio Energy is an offshore renewable energy company integrating wind, wave, currents, OTEC, and power-to-fuel in a single floating platform. TRANSPORTATION. ELECTRICITY.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The second project is the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project, which will invest roughly $1 billion to develop a nearby underground salt dome to store compressed hydrogen. How do you aggregate that demand to create sufficient momentum in the market to drive investment?".

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Unlike coal and nuclear, solar and wind are variable; they provide power only when the sun and wind are available. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

And unlike lithium-ion batteries, the materials to make iron flow batteries are cheap and easy to find. The ESS system will offer a combined capacity of 8 MWh to provide resilience for the local power grid. ” Long-duration energy storage is crucial to maximizing reliance on renewable energy resources over fossil fuels.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 16, 2021

As a result, Beijing invested aggressively in renewables and has now achieved predominant market shares in solar photovoltaics as well as lithium-ion batteries, another key renewable technology. . China’s own energy consumption continues to grow rapidly, making the Chinese economy the world’s largest energy consumer.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Note: There is a lot happening in the world. Seems like a smart approach.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Established automakers are playing defense against Tesla and other rising manufacturers, funneling billions of dollars in investments toward EV strategies while still trying to keep existing ICE business in the green. Ford’s EV business is expected to lose $4.5B this year even as the company plans to spend $50B on EVs through 2026. "We

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

After more than a decade of being overshadowed by lithium-ion battery technology - a phenomenon Bamford pins on Tesla founder Elon Musk, a man he stresses is "not an engineer or a manufacturer" - hydrogen cell technology is having a moment. He may be in luck. We could be world class, financing green hydrogen," he contends. "We

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