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Technology Trending: AI bird monitoring, LFP battery prototype, lithium for EVs, Moon to Mars

Smart Energy International

AI to monitor bird interactions with solar PV, lithium iron phosphate battery production coming in Europe, a lithium mine for EV batteries and the energy infrastructure requirements in the Moon to Mars exploration are on the week’s technology radar. First lithium iron phosphate battery cell prototype in Europe.

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Syria’s solar-powered EV provides a ray of hope for locals

Smart Energy International

Healthcare vehicle transports patients and vaccines in area devastated by more than a decade of conflict. An electric vehicle has become a symbol of hope for healthcare workers in northern Syria. Now a landmark project aims to break this diesel dependency by utilising solar-powered electric vehicles. Have you read?

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How Duke’s Unique Energy Landscape Dictates Its Path to Net Zero

GreenTechMedia

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. Solar energy's winter doldrums.

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Redwood Materials will recycle stationary storage batteries as it expands its scope

The Verge: Energy

The electric vehicle battery recycling and manufacturing venture founded by the former chief technologist of Tesla announced today that it will help decommission and recycle a 4MWh stationary storage substation in Kauai, Hawaii, as part of a massive solar array. That one is still powering away and will be for many more years!”

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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — April 2024 

Greentown Labs

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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10 Predictions for the Solar and Storage Market in the 2020s

GreenTechMedia

The solar-plus-storage market is evolving rapidly and will look completely different a decade down the road. Batteries will be incentivized or mandated for practically every new solar PV system across the U.S. Energy storage systems treated like heat pumps and air conditioners. What can we expect on the way to 2030?

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Which will be the First Hydrogen-Powered Inland Vessel in Rotterdam?

Mr. Sustainability

The race is on for the first hydrogen-powered inland vessel in Rotterdam! Harm Lenten is captain of the MS Antonie, a diesel-powered cargo ship between Delfzijl and the Rotterdam Botlek. Within two years’ time he hopes to transport his goods with a brand new ship: the first inland vessel in the world to run on hydrogen.