Analysis & Features

BESS needed in $10 trillion plans to reduce coal emissions 1000 669 Energy Storage Journal

BESS needed in $10 trillion plans to reduce coal emissions

December 1, 2022: Battery storage and renewables will be needed on a massive scale through to 2050 to reduce emissions from coal-generating plants as part of global clean-energy investments totalling…

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Focus on UK’s Teesside as new lithium processing hub 722 410 Energy Storage Journal

Focus on UK’s Teesside as new lithium processing hub

December 1, 2022: Green Lithium, the chemical subsidiary of mining giant Trafigura, is to build the UK’s first large-scale lithium refinery at Teesside, in northern England. At the same time…

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Quidnet storage tech wins US funding boost 1000 873 Energy Storage Journal

Quidnet storage tech wins US funding boost

December 1, 2022: Mechanical energy storage company Quidnet Energy is to receive $10 million in US federal funding to commercialize its technology, the company announced on November 29. Quidnet said…

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Solid Power CEO Campbell retires 731 396 Energy Storage Journal

Solid Power CEO Campbell retires

December 1, 2022: All-solid-state batteries developer Solid Power said on November 29 that CEO, board member and co-founder, Douglas Campbell, had decided to retire effective immediately. David Jansen, the company’s…

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Batteries included for BMW’s €2bn Hungary investment 968 1024 Energy Storage Journal

Batteries included for BMW’s €2bn Hungary investment

December 1, 2022: The BMW group said on November 25 it will build a high-voltage battery assembly plant at its car manufacturing facility in Debrecen, Hungary, where it is investing…

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Lithium battery recall as Australia issues home storage fires alert 800 533 Energy Storage Journal

Lithium battery recall as Australia issues home storage fires alert

November 24, 2022: Australia’s consumer watchdog issued a warning on November 21 over “potentially deadly” faulty batteries in residential energy storage systems, after Korea’s LG Energy Solution issued its latest…

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UK ‘wasting’ wind power without storage, study claims 481 268 Energy Storage Journal

UK ‘wasting’ wind power without storage, study claims

August 11, 2022: The UK has “wasted” more than 1TWh of wind power since September 2021 because it lacked sufficient long duration energy storage (LDES) capacity, according to research commissioned…

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AMTE outlines ‘Mega’ cells project 768 576 Energy Storage Journal

AMTE outlines ‘Mega’ cells project

August 4, 2022: AMTE Power has selected Dundee in Scotland as the preferred site for its first ‘MegaFactory’. The sodium-ion battery cells developer said the new 0.5GWh plant could be…

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UBS Asset Management acquires Texas BESS projects 220 219 Energy Storage Journal

UBS Asset Management acquires Texas BESS projects

August 4, 2022: UBS Asset Management said on July 28 it had acquired 700MW of development-stage energy storage projects in Texas for an undisclosed sum from Black Mountain Energy Storage.…

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Sion Power promotes Canada to COO 640 800 Energy Storage Journal

Sion Power promotes Canada to COO

August 4, 2022: Lithium-metal batteries developer Sion Power Corporation said on July 26 it had promoted Michael Canada from the post of chief manufacturing officer to chief operations officer. Canada’s…

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