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Benchmark: global battery industry needs to invest $514B to meet demand in 2030; $920B by 2035

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Demand for lithium ion batteries is forecast to grow to 3.7 This includes spending on renewables such as wind and solar as well as grid and other infrastructure. This year is expected to see more than a million tonnes LCE of lithium mined for the first time, according to Benchmark’s Lithium Forecast.

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Lux: Li-ion dominating grid storage market with 90% of 2014 proposals

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Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have become the dominant new technology in grid storage, capturing a 90% share of systems proposed last year, according to analysts at Lux Research. Globally, as of January 2015, 1,100 MW and 2,523 MWh of grid storage have been deployed across 605 projects.

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UQ, GMG graphene-enhanced aluminum-ion batteries show very high power density, long life

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Hongjie Dai, Nature , 2015, 520, 325, and 3. This is a real game-changing technology which can offer a real alternative with an interchangeable battery technology for the existing lithium-ion batteries in almost every application with GMG’s Graphene and UQ’s patent-pending aluminum ion battery technology. 2017, 8:14283 2.

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Li-ion maker Electrovaya receives $1.3M IESS award for Toronto and London Hydro; working with Walmart

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This project is supported by the Ontario Ministry of Energy’s Smart Grid Fund. All the Electrovaya IESS units are expected to be installed by mid-2015. Walmart had tested the Electrovaya lithium-ion 2.0 technology for six months before Electrovaya became an approved vendor, said Dr. Sankar Das Gupta, CEO of Electrovaya.

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ABB delivers first urban battery storage solution in Denmark to support renewables

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The Lithium-ion based battery energy storage system (BESS) will be integrated with the local electricity grid in the new harbor district of Nordhavn, Copenhagen. The system has been commissioned for Radius, DONG Energy’s electrical grid division. ABB has commissioned Denmark’s first urban energy storage system.

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M5BAT 5MW storage system integrates multiple battery technologies

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It consists of lithium-ion batteries to meet short-term demand; high-temperature batteries to supply power for several hours; and lead-acid batteries when the average discharge time is one hour or less. Beta-motion GmbH’s high-output lithium-ion batteries will be used for efficient load management.

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Navigant: 2016 advanced battery shipments through Q3 = 323M cells and $3.8B in sales

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The chemistries that are included in the report are all lithium ion (Li-ion) chemistries, flow battery chemistries, sodium-metal halide, and advanced lead-acid. The global market for advanced batteries for EVs and stationary ESSs through 3Q 2016 has already surpassed the total 2015 energy capacity of approximately 14.6

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