Charged

MARCH 15, 2022

We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy), but thanks to the recent surge in raw material prices, that positive trend could slow, or even go into reverse, according to a recent Reuters report. Lithium prices have also risen, more than doubling since the end of 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Global energy storage deployments are expected to nearly triple year-over-year in 2021, reaching 12 GW/28 GWh, according to a report by Wood Mackenzie. Wood Mackenzie's Global Energy Storage Outlook forecasts nearly 1 TWh of total demand from 2021-2030, with the U.S. Follow @EngelsAngle. and China dominating the market.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 30, 2022

India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA), India’s leading industry alliance on energy storage, e-mobility, and green hydrogen, has released its 3rd annual edition of the 2021 India Electric Vehicle and Component Market Overview Report 2021-2030. The market is of 6.5GWh, just like in 2021.

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Charged

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Lithium-ion battery prices have been dropping for so long that industry players and pundits tend to factor ever-cheaper cells into their predictions, and many have made (dubious) comparisons to Moore’s Law, one of the core tenets of the computer industry.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 4, 2022

I cited this as the Top Energy Story of 2021 in a previous column because of the impact on so many people. However, few commodities have surged this year quite like lithium. Lithium is one of the most important elements for our transition to a lower-carbon future. This is where lithium differs from oil.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Solid Power has partnered with SK Innovation to manufacture automotive-scale all-solid-state batteries using Solid Power’s sulfide-based solid electrolyte, proprietary cell designs and production processes. Solid Power says its Silicon EV Cell will be safer, provide longer range, and cost less than today’s lithium-ion batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

But it can also substantially increase electricity demand at ports. In response to California's electrification push, the state's largest ports, including San Diego, Los Angeles, and Long Beach, are turning to microgrids for energy security and demand flexibility. When completed next year, the $7.1

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a result of the embargo, a supply/demand imbalance ensued. But increasingly in the next century, it is lithium that will be the critical commodity. This will result in a tremendous increase in lithium consumption. alone will need 500,000 metric tons per year of unrefined lithium by 2034 just to power EVs. has 4.0%. (The

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Renewable energy asset developer Ameresco will supply Southern California Edison with three battery energy storage systems totaling 537 MW/2 GWh to provide resiliency to the grid. SCE sees a growing role for battery storage as we transition to delivering 100% clean renewable energy to customers,” SCE President and CEO Kevin Payne said. "SCE

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Charged

JANUARY 14, 2021

Group14 Technologies, a global provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, has secured $17 million in a Series B funding round led by SK materials, a manufacturer of special gases and industrial gases. “Group14’s innovative battery material chemistry maximizes high-quality production at cost.”

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 19, 2020

Two flow battery companies are about to complete a months-long effort to combine forces. 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.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. The 27 MW aggregation is the first large-scale behind-the-meter battery project for PG&E, but not for the state as a whole.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Electric vehicles (EVs) could be on track to reach cost-parity with fossil fuel cars within three years thanks to rapid strides in battery development worldwide, which have seen the average cost of lithium ion battery packs plummet almost 90 per cent over the past decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The InnoEnergy Skills Institute has concluded specialised training courses for over 50,000 students, a milestone they tout towards addressing workforce demands within the battery industry. 50,000 learners completed training courses designed to equip them with essential skills for navigating the battery value chain.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Battery recycling specialist Li-Cycle will invest over $175 million dollars in a lithium-ion battery recycling “Hub” at Eastman Business Park in upstate New York. Li-Cycle plans to begin construction on the Hub facility in 2021. Li-Cycle plans to begin construction on the Hub facility in 2021.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

The authors of the endless articles warning of the environmental costs of battery raw materials are invariably “big fans” of EVs, but they’re naturally concerned that they may not be “as green as they claim.” As demand rises for battery raw materials, EV industry players are working to reduce the environmental costs of extraction.

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CleanTech San Diego

DECEMBER 20, 2023

UNIGRID Battery , a UC San Diego spin-off startup company and member of Cleantech San Diego’s Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN), announces that it has received its first commercial MWh-scale purchase orders for their advanced sodium ion batteries. The company was founded in 2021 from the Ph.D.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now it's tapping a massive battery to help. The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) last week awarded a competitive contract to developer Neoen to build the "Victorian Big Battery" along the transmission line connecting the states of Victoria and New South Wales. Batteries acting like wires.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mining the seafloor to extract minerals like cobalt and nickel that are widely used for EV batteries could put deep ocean ecosystems at risk (image credit: Alexis Rosenfeld / Getty Images). As the focus at COP26 in Glasgow shifts to greening the world’s transportation systems, electric vehicles (EVs) are in the spotlight.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2021

OTTAWA — As Canada’s largest trading partners transform their economies to be cleaner and more competitive, one aspect of that shift is clear: batteries will be the engines of the modern world. Canada has the right ingredients for a successful battery sector, the experts told Clean Energy Canada in a roundtable convened in March.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Honeywell has developed a new flow battery technology capable of storing and discharging renewably-generated electricity for up to 12 hours, the company announced Tuesday. Honeywell becomes one of the first vertically integrated end-to-end energy storage providers from battery manufacturing to integration, the company added.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Sure, small-scale batteries in homes and businesses can link up and deliver veritable megawatts of capacity. But there’s nothing like the sheer adrenaline rush of stacks and stacks of lithium-ion cells packed into climate-controlled boxes and blasting electrons faster than a coal plant operator can say “secular decline.”

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Charged

JULY 5, 2022

The latest edition notes that EV sales “powered through 2021 and have remained strong so far in 2022,” but cautions that “ensuring future growth will demand greater efforts to diversify battery manufacturing and critical mineral supplies to reduce the risks of bottlenecks and price rises.”. by the end of 2021.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The price of battery energy storage systems rose for the first time since records began in 2022, as raw material and component costs soared, and developers and system integrators increased their margins in the face of challenging economic headwinds and soaring energy costs worldwide. link] pic.twitter.com/C55UHprYIv.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The four microgrid and energy storage sites will help address surging energy demands in the San Diego region, especially during hot summer days and the peak evening hours when solar power generation typically diminishes and there is a significant strain on the grid.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

The study, published in the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) journal The Geographical Journal , highlights that global demand for sulphuric acid is set to rise significantly from ‘246 to 400 million tonnes’ by 2040 – a result of more intensive agriculture and the world moving away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

The UK's battery storage sector made promising progress this week with projects comprising 550MW reaching fresh planning milestones. Exagen said this is enough to meet demand from 80 per cent of the homes in Leicestershire, where the battery will be situated. of investment from Santander UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Latest BloombergNEF report predicts booming demand throughout the 2020s should see global energy storage market hit one terawatt hour by the end of the decade. Growth in the region could accelerate as renewables penetration surges, more fossil-fuel generators exit and the battery supply chain becomes more localized," the report said.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2021

Budget 2021 recognizes Canada’s economic future relies less on fossil fuels and more on exports aligned with this net-zero world. Battery development has been recognized both by the federal government and our American trading partners as a major opportunity for Canada. the EU, the U.K. This isn’t just a nice idea, either.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 27, 2021

Long-duration iron flow battery manufacturer ESS Inc announced a new contract with Chilean utility, Edelaysen, a GRUPO SAESA company, to provide a flow battery system to support a renewable energy-based microgrid in Chile. Work on this project is underway and is expected to be commissioned later in 2021. GWh) will be avoided.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2022

According to the report, Global EV Outlook 2022 , ensuring future growth will demand greater efforts to diversify battery manufacturing and critical mineral supplies. The Paris-based intergovernmental organisation finds that sales doubled in 2021 to a new record of 6.6 million, triple the amount in 2018.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Some utilities may be focused on the small ball of owning EV chargers so that they can rate base the asset, but the real opportunity for utilities is the growth in electric vehicle demand as we transition from petroleum to electricity as the primary input for transportation vehicles.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Battery electric vehicles (EVs) may be set to dominate the auto market in the coming decades, but fuel cell technologies could still have a sizeable role to play in the decarbonisation of transport. times higher than petrol and diesel, and around 200 times higher than lithium batteries.".

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Refining the circular economy for battery materials. As the e-mobility transition accelerates, demand for critical minerals is growing exponentially. Nth Cycle works with battery recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical minerals from separated electronic waste and low-grade mine tailings.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

More North American Battery Materials Supply Chain News As we discussed last month , there has been a surge in activity lately in the North American battery materials supply chain. “As This is still short of the 508GWh annual demand the region will have by 2030, so expect more announcements to come.”

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An introduction to the battery company NorthVolt and its strategy Summary - NortVolt, led by Tesla-Veteran Peter Carlsson, is building the very first European battery gigafactory. What is NorthVolt’s strategy to create a European battery power basis? He came back to build his own battery factory. million jobs, vulnerable.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The UK car market has ended five months of decline largely thanks to soaring sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs), which accounted for almost one in seven new cars to hit the road during August, the latest official industry figures have confirmed. It means battery EVs took an overall 14.5 It means battery EVs took an overall 14.5

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