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California’s Battery Storage Fire: Precursor Or Outlier?

January 21, 2025 admin air quality, batteries, battery storage, bess, California, carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, demand response, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, grid batteries, grid storage, HEALTH, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit 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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U.S. DOE Announces $996 Million Loan Guarantee to Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge to Advance Domestic Production of Lithium Carbonate, Boost U.S. Battery Supply Chain

January 20, 2025 admin atvm, batteries, battery supply chain, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, green economy, ioneer, Joe Biden, lithium carbonate, lithium-ion batteries, loan programs office, Manufacturing, nevada, policy & politics, us department of energy (doe)

Credit 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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U.S. DOE Announces $15 Billion Loan Guarantee to Pacific Gas & Electric Company to Expand Hydropower Generation, Battery Energy Storage, & Transmission

January 20, 2025 admin batteries, California, clean power, Energy Storage, grid, hydroelectric, investing in america, Joe Biden, lithium-ion batteries, loan programs office, pacific gas & electric, PG&E, us department of energy (doe), virtual power plants

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:51:32 +0000

Section 1706 Loan Guarantee Will Maintain Affordability for Customers and Improve System Resilience and Reliability As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced today the closing of a $15 billion loan guarantee to Pacific Gas & Electric Company … [continued]

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U.S. DOE Announces $584.5 Million Loan Guarantee to Subsidiaries of Convergent Energy and Power Inc. to Build Solar PV and Energy Storage in Puerto Rico

January 20, 2025 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, loan programs office, policy & politics, Puerto Rico, puerto rico clean energy, puerto rico renewable energy, puerto rico solar energy, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:50:26 +0000

Convergent will build and operate utility-scale solar-plus-storage in Puerto Rico, improving grid resilience and reducing costs for ratepayers. The U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO) today announced the closing of a $584.5 million ($559.4 million in principal and $25.1 million in capitalized interest) loan guarantee to subsidiaries of … [continued]

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U.S. DOE Focuses on Energy Storage Manufacturability to Improve Production, Reduce Costs

January 19, 2025 admin batteries, Energy Storage, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, policy & politics, subsidies, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:58:25 +0000

DOE to fund $8 million for pre-production design innovations The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced the Aligning Manufacturability & Pre-production Design (AMPD) for Storage Technologies Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for up to $8 million. This NOFO seeks to improve the manufacturability of energy … [continued]

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U.S. DOE Announces $289.7 Million Loan Guarantee to Sunwealth to Deploy Solar PV & Battery Energy Storage, Creating Wide-Scale Virtual Power Plant

January 19, 2025 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, investing in america, Joe Biden, lithium-ion batteries, loan programs office, policy & politics, Solar energy, subsidies, sunwealth, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:57:39 +0000

Project Polo will deploy commercial-scale PV and storage to create integrated virtual power plants across 27 states. As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) today announced the closing of a $289.7 million loan guarantee to Sunwealth Holdco … [continued]

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Contract Secured For 200MW/800MWh Energy Storage Project In Idaho

January 17, 2025 admin Energy Storage, idaho, lithium-ion batteries

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:30:04 +0000

Here at CleanTechnica, we have had the privilege to write about recent large energy storage system projects. These projects are exciting news, because in some cases they are paired with clean, renewable electricity such as solar power and wind power. Excess electricity from the clean, renewable sources can be stored … [continued]

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Re-X Before Recycling Prize To Extend the Lifetimes of Manufactured Products

January 16, 2025 admin batteries, battery recycling, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery recycling, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 04:57:02 +0000

Ten teams receive a collective $1.5 million and Phase 3 opens to returning competitors. Latest Announcement The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) today announced the Phase 2 winners of the Re-X Before Recycling Prize, a competition to identify, prepare, and develop innovative ways to … [continued]

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Community Batteries — Will They Make A Difference?

January 15, 2025 admin Australia, batteries, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, Queensland

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:55:56 +0000

In Queensland, Australia, Energex has partnered with Origin to trial community batteries in Ipswich, near where my daughter lives. We took a drive to find them. On the first try, we were able to locate and photograph one of the pole mounted community batteries. “Energex is connecting up to 30 … [continued]

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This Is What’s Driving Growing EV Sales & Competitiveness

January 14, 2025 admin batteries, bnef (bloomberg new energy finance), China, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery costs, ev battery prices, lithium-ion batteries, market research, research

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:25:01 +0000

As we’ve seen now, electric vehicles had healthy sales growth in 2024. Many companies actually had spectacular EV sales growth. Without a doubt, policies in certain countries help with this — because they force companies to actually try, and to be willing to produce and sell higher volumes of electric … [continued]

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