Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:01:34 +0000
Norwegian company Vianode has signed a multi-year deal with General Motors to supply synthetic graphite for batteries beginning in 2027.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:54:09 +0000
The electric vehicle revolution is genuinely in full swing, with almost one out of every 4 new vehicles having a plug in 2024. The core element of that revolution is the batteries, and the essence of those batteries is a handful of metals. So, the most critical conundrum is how … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:11:54 +0000
New underground, long duration thermal energy storage systems can help manage skyrocketing energy demand from of data centers in the US.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:34:51 +0000
Recently, there was a large fire at a utility-scale battery storage installation in California. Rather than rehash that story, I’ll just point you to Steve’s article on that if you haven’t heard about it. As you can probably predict, a large battery fire was seized upon by anti-renewable propagandists, who … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:57:06 +0000
We’ve been hearing about solid-state battery breakthroughs for a decade, or more than a decade actually. Solid-state batteries are the future of batteries, and the future of EVs — as they have been for several years. Given the many announcements on solid-state battery breakthroughs and solid-state batteries being the future, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Arcus| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:19:35 +0000
Is the C rate of a pack adjustable depending on the design of the cell connections within a pack? No. Now you must wonder, how can this be? I can describe C rate this way. If you have a 1A hr cell, and it can discharge all of its charge … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Arcus| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:45:35 +0000
We are going to have to talk about battery storage and the Moss Landing fire. The fire was located to the Vistra Storage facility within a building that was formerly a natural gas generation unit. Tesla has a storage facility nearby, but not within the same building. You know I … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:55:46 +0000
Battery storage got a black eye this week when a 300 MW unit at Moss Landing in California caught fire in spectacular fashion.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:27:08 +0000
A fire broke out at the Moss Landing Power Plant, not too far from San Francisco, on January 16, 2025, prompting the evacuation of approximately 1,500 residents and the temporary closure of Highway 1. No one was harmed in the incident. Given the massive growth in grid storage battery systems, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:53:40 +0000
Rhyolite Ridge will process lithium carbonate to support the domestic EV battery supply chain. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced today the closing of a $996 million loan guarantee (including $968 million of principal and $28 million of capitalized interest) to Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC … [continued]
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