Analysis & Features

June 10, 2021: Umicore, the international materials and recycling group that also recycles lithium batteries, said Mathias Miedreich would take over from Marc Grynberg as CEO of the group in…

June 10, 2021: The first solar panel in what will be the UK’s first utility-scale wind, solar and battery facility was installed on June 9 by UK prime minister Boris…

June 10, 2021: The boom in battery demand from electric vehicles and stationary storage applications has caused a surge in battery metals prices and with them, a need for metals…

June 10, 2021: Philippine power company SMC (San Miguel Corporation) has signed agreements with major energy storage firms to provide up to 1GW of storage for the archipelago, including 470MW…

June 10, 2021: The US has set another record for energy storage deployments, this time in Q1, bringing 910MWh online in 2021, says Wood Mackenzie in a report out on…

June 10, 2021: US president Joe Biden has given a massive boost to the US battery industry, on June 8 recommending that critical spending is carried out to expand the…

June 10, 2021: Canadian lithium battery recycler Li-Cycle on June 8 said it had formed a partnership with the battery management company Renewance, which is based in Illinois, US. The…

May 27, 2021: Thermal energy storage company Malta and Duke Energy, the North Carolinian utility, announced on May 19 they would work together to study the feasibility of converting decommissioned…

May 27, 2021: ESB in Ireland has signed a memorandum of understanding with energy storage developer dCarbonX to assess and develop offshore hydrogen storage, the firms announced on May 26.…

May 27, 2021: Scottish power generator firm Gravitricity said on May 19 that it was planning to incorporate hydrogen and heat into its underground energy system. The Edinburgh-based firm signed…