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Chicago architects aim to use gravity storage to turn ‘super-tall’ buildings into giant batteries

June 7, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on June 7, 2024. The Chicago-based architecture firm that built the world’s tallest structure in Dubai is looking to design skyscrapers that use gravity storage to reduce [Read more]

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U.S. battery startup discovers breakthrough method to decarbonize steel

May 31, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on May 30, 2024. A company that made waves with its solution for long-duration energy storage has “stumbled on” a groundbreaking way to decarbonize the emissions-heavy iron [Read more]

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Sharp declines in critical mineral prices mask risks of future supply strains as energy transitions advance

May 17, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by the International Energy Agency on May 17, 2024. Pressure eased in 2023 on the market for minerals that go into electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels and other clean energy [Read more]

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Chinese shipper launches all-electric container ship with 50MWh battery

May 17, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on May 16, 2024. By Energy Mix Staff The world’s biggest electric container ship is about to go into service between Shanghai and Nanjing, China, powered by [Read more]

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VW looks to build solid-state batteries at St. Thomas, Ontario gigafactory

May 3, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on May 3, 2024. Volkswagen Canada is doubling down on the technology known as the “battery of the future” for electric vehicles, with an announcement that it [Read more]

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China’s CATL unveils 1.5M-km EV battery, long-duration storage unit

April 19, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on April 18, 2024. Ningde, China-based battery manufacturing giant CATL was busy with two major announcements in the first half of April—a new electric vehicle battery pack [Read more]

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Canadian battery recycler Li-Cycle sheds 17 per cent of staff

April 12, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on April 11, 2024. By Christopher Bonasia In the newest wrinkle in Li-Cycle’s recent ups and downs, the Toronto-based company has laid off 17 per cent of [Read more]

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Canada tops global ranking of lithium-ion supply chains

February 12, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Feb. 9, 2024. By Mitchell Beer Canada has moved to the top of the list in an annual ranking of countries’ preparedness to build out their [Read more]

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Oil companies used to run this town. Now they’re back — to mine for lithium.

January 22, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Jan. 22, 2024. By Katie Myers Chantell Dunbar-Jones remembers when her hometown of Lewisville, Arkansas, seemed to have oil wells on every corner. The small town, located in the [Read more]

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Chinese EV maker Nio livestreams 1,000-km trip on a single charge

January 16, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Jan. 11, 2024. By Christopher Bonasia Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Nio is bragging about a semi-solid state battery that can power a 1,044-kilometre road trip, after [Read more]

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Indian companies are bringing one of the world’s most toxic industries to Africa. People are getting sick.

December 5, 2023 Energi Staff

This story is a co-publication by Grist and The Examination, a new nonprofit newsroom specializing in global public health reporting and was published on Dec. 4, 2023.  Will Fitzgibbon, The Examination At noon, dusk, and [Read more]

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Cheaper and safer sodium-ion batteries on the horizon: IDTechEx

July 14, 2023 Energi Staff

This article was released by IDTechEx on July 14, 2023. By Shazan Siddiqi, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx Diversification in the Energy Storage Industry Is Foreseeable As the world progresses rapidly towards electrification, the energy storage [Read more]

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Tesla breaks ground on lithium refinery in Texas — a first for a US automaker

May 11, 2023 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist.org on May 11, 2023. By Gabriela Aoun Angueira In a first among United States automakers, Tesla will begin refining its own lithium, a critical material for electric vehicle batteries. [Read more]

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Why is ESG so important to critical mineral supplies, and what can we do about it?

September 19, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Sept. 9, 2022. By K.C. Michaels, Louis Maréchal, Benjamin Katz Environmental, social and governance impacts from minerals development may hamper progress on climate Clean energy [Read more]

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U of A researcher aims to squeeze extra life out of lithium ion batteries

August 10, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Folio on July 11, 2022. By Bev Betkowski Cruising down the highway in an electric car, who wouldn’t want to squeeze a few hundred extra kilometres out of a single [Read more]

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Global electric car sales continued strong growth in 2022 after record-breaking 2021

May 30, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the International Energy Agency on May 23, 2022. Electric car sales powered through 2021 and have remained strong so far in 2022, but ensuring future growth will demand greater efforts [Read more]

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Growing use of battery storage systems on the US electricity grid: EIA

April 6, 2021 Energi Staff

By Vikram Linga This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on March 24, 2021. In the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2021 (AEO2021), EIA projects a significant number of [Read more]

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Utility-scale batteries, pumped storage return about 80 per cent of electricity they store

February 23, 2021 Energi Staff

This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Feb. 12, 2021. By Alex May Electric energy storage is becoming more important to the energy industry as the share of intermittent generating technologies, [Read more]

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Cheaper, better batteries drive EV sales during 2020s

February 21, 2021 Markham Hislop

Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews James Frith, head of energy storage for BloombergNEF, about the effect of falling battery prices on EV adoption. If cheap batteries hit the market sooner than expected, [Read more]

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This changes everything: Battery prices in free fall

January 13, 2021 Markham Hislop

Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews James Frith, head of energy storage for BloombergNEF, on the annual battery price survey. Cheap battery storage is already revolutionizing electric vehicles, electric utilities, and many other [Read more]

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“Cost and Carbon Competitiveness” was an Alberta rallying cry for years. What happened?

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Reducing methane emissions to zero is important for Canada’s competitiveness as global markets increasingly price carbon For all the noise surrounding climate policy, this is the rare file where ideology doesn’t change the physics, and [Read more]

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