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JANUARY 20, 2016

Battery cost reductions, government funding programs and utility tenders led to a 45% increase in the global energy storage pipeline in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2015 compared to the previous quarter. Planned storage installations in the United States will make up nearly half (45%) of planned installations, followed by Japan at 20%.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

2016 – David Howell, DOE, Vehicle Technologies Office, 2017 Annual Merit Review, Electrochemical Energy Storage R&D Overview , 20 June 2017, PowerPoint presentation, p. Sources: 2018–2022 – US DOE, Vehicle Technologies Office, using Argonne National Laboratory’s BatPaC: Battery Manufacturing Cost Estimation Tool.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Daimler AG has established Mercedes-Benz Energy GmbH to take over the development and global sale of Mercedes-Benz brand stationary energy storage ( earlier post ) with immediate effect. Daimler AG, with ACCUMOTIVE, began delivery of domestic storage solutions for the German market in April.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Southern California Edison (SCE) opened the largest battery energy storage project in North America—the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project—to modernize the grid to integrate more clean energy. It will also help us to gain a better understanding of the value and benefit of battery energy storage.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Hecate Canada Storage II, LLP, an emerging Canadian Project Development and Electrical Systems Integrator, has selected Switzerland-based Leclanché as the exclusive partner to provide 13MW / 53MWh Li-ion battery Energy Storage Systems in one of the largest Grid Ancillary Services energy storage projects in North America.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) established a combined energy storage target of 1,325 megawatts (MW) for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric by 2020, with installations required no later than the end of 2024. (MW Source: CPUC. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

According to a new report from Navigant Research, the shipment volume of advanced batteries for the first three quarters of 2016 equates to more than 323.5 GWh of energy capacity, 61.4 The majority of the advanced batteries in 2016 have been manufactured in Asia Pacific and shipped around the world. GW of power capacity, and $3.8

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JUNE 5, 2015

Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) has selected Tesla as the primary technology provider for its utility-scale energy storage projects. Under the agreement, AMS will install up to 500 MWh of Tesla batteries in its energy storage projects.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

GE will provide Coachella Energy Storage Partners (CESP) with a 30-MW battery energy storage system as part of CESP’s supply contract with the Imperial Irrigation District (IID). GE anticipates project construction will begin early next year, with commercial operation scheduled for the third quarter of 2016.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Kokam has successfully deployed two Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide Energy Storage Systems (ESSs)—a 24-megawatt (MW) system / 9-megawatt hour (MWh) and a 16 MW / 6 MWh system—for frequency regulation on the South Korean electricity grid.

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APRIL 16, 2011

The overall market for energy storage technologies that power electric vehicles is set to grow from $13 billion in 2011 to $30 billion in 2016, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. Thus, they are set to surpass these other passenger vehicle types in terms of both total storage and dollars in 2016, growing from 5.1

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MAY 10, 2016

Nissan and Eaton, have partnered to introduce a new residential energy storage unit: the xStorage solution. Available to pre-order from September 2016, the xStorage is designed to be the most affordable home energy storage system in the market today. Starting price for a 4.2

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Eos Energy Storage announced the commercial availability of its MW-scale Aurora system for deliveries starting in 2016. per kWh—substantially less than conventional gas turbines and competing energy storage technologies. With a 30-year life, Eos is can provide peak electricity at a levelized cost of $0.12-0.17

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AUGUST 24, 2016

Described in a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the smart membrane separator could enable the design of a new category of rechargeable/refillable energy storage devices with high energy density and specific power that would overcome the contemporary limitations of electric vehicles.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

However, transportation and energy storage are showing strength as emerging sectors for hydrogen and fuel cells with approximately 62,000 fuel cells and 500 MW in fuel cell power shipped worldwide in 2016— more than double the capacity of shipments in megawatts compared to 2014. billion in 2016 alone. and Denmark.

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JULY 1, 2015

TransAlta Corporation has been awarded $250,000 from Alberta Innovates - Energy & Environment Solutions (AI-EES) to help launch Alberta’s first large-scale commercial energy storage project. The project should be running in late-2016. Home and business energy storage is just starting to gain momentum in the U.S,

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

They found that for an 80% RPS in 2050, immediate charging of PEVs requires the installation of an aggregate energy storage system with a power capacity of 60% of the installed renewable capacity and an energy capacity of 2.3% With vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging, non-vehicle energy storage systems are no longer required.

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MARCH 12, 2015

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $2.1 million to Eos Energy Storage, LLC to demonstrate an AC-integrated system incorporating the company’s zinc hybrid-cathode battery technology (“Zynth”) to enhance renewable energy generation and provide grid-scale, multi-hour energy storage.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

By investing in VoltStorage, we are taking steps to advance solutions focused on the grid and energy storage. Headquartered in Munich, VoltStorage was founded in 2016 by Jakob Bitner, Michael Peither and Felix Kiefl. —Jennifer Rumsey, President and COO, Cummins. Each battery cell is enclosed by two bipolar plates.

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MAY 29, 2015

Daimler is entering the commercial and residential stationary energy storage system (ESS) market with its wholly-owned subsidiary Deutsche ACCUmotive. For use in the residential or private sector, up to eight battery modules can be combined to produce an energy storage plant with a capacity of 20 kWh. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The batteries manufactured at the City of Industry facility will feature Proterra’s redesigned modules with next-generation cells developed with LG Energy Solution. Since 2016, Proterra and LG engineering teams have been collaborating to maximize cell performance to meet the stringent requirements of commercial vehicle markets.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

K2 Energy Solutions has received the first order against an initial $81,400,000 contract to provide an intermediate energy storage battery system for the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Naval Sea Systems Command’s (NAVSEA) electromagnetic rail gun. The awarding of the contract was originally announced in July 2014.

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APRIL 5, 2017

In November 2016, Ford was awarded a patent on a solid-state battery design ( US 20160329594 A1 ) with Anandan and his colleague Andrew Drews as the inventors. One of Ford’s university partners demonstrated that LLZO can be sintered into thin sheets of around 150-200 microns in thickness and conductivity of 10 -4.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

Recovery and reuse of braking energy is well proven and is now widely used in hybrid electric vehicles and, more recently, by bus operators the world over. Construction activities are scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2016 with estimated commercial operation in late 2016.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Today, BMW debuts an energy-storage system that uses i3 electric car batteries, a Mercedes-Benz electric SUV concept is expected for the 2016 Paris Motor Show, and the Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid is pulled form the U.S. BMW will use i3 electric-car batteries for home energy storage. for the 2017 model year.

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JULY 18, 2011

In its new report Energy Storage on the Grid (ESG), Pike Research forecasts that global spending in the ESG market will reach a little over $22 billion over the next 10 years. Energy storage on the grid is reaching a turning point. Installed revenue by ESG technology, worldwide. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Tesla posted a strong increase in automotive revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016, rising 79% year-on-year to $1.994 billion. Gigafactory 1 began production of battery cells for energy storage products in January; these cells have the same form-factor as the cells that will be used in Model 3.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Renault and distributed energy storage company Connected Energy are partnering to develop sustainable and efficient ways of using electric vehicle batteries at the end of their useable in-vehicle life in order to supply innovative and more affordable vehicle charging solutions. E-STOR will be available in the UK from July 2016.

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JULY 9, 2023

The new electric buses have expanded the existing fleet of 76 emission-free Solaris buses, some of which have been operating on the city streets since 2016. Photo: Grzegorz Mental. The acquisition of 20 new vehicles means that we now have 99 electric buses in Krakow, operating on 15 regular routes, not only during the day but also at night.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

(BJEV), a subsidiary of the BAIC Group, have entered into a development partnership to establish second-life energy storage systems in China in the future. Together, Mercedes-Benz Energy and Beijing Electric Vehicle plan to set up the first 2nd-life energy storage unit in Beijing, making use of retired BJEV electric car batteries.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

From 2016–2019, over 90% […]. The United States imports many of the minerals used in EV batteries, such as cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and nickel, with lithium being the predominant mineral.

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JULY 12, 2023

Poland-based battery systems maker Impact Clean Power Technology unveiled a visualization of GigafactoryX—a large-scale battery factory for electric vehicles and energy storage which will be launched in the city of Pruszków, near Warsaw. The factory will be certified to IATF 16949:2016, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 14001.:2015,

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JUNE 18, 2015

The work will begin in June of 2016 when the support from 3M and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) ends. (3M The lab focuses on the physics and chemistry of materials for energy storage, primarily in the area of Lithium-ion batteries. —Prof. I’m so thankful for 3M Canada and NSERC’s support over the years.

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MARCH 22, 2016

Audi unveiled its redesigned R18 diesel hybrid Le Mans racer for the 2016 World Endurance Championship (WEC) season. Among the new features in the R18 are a more radical aerodynamics concept, including a new safety cell; a Li-ion battery replacing the flywheel energy storage system; and a revised V6 TDI diesel engine.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Founded in 2016 in Ontario, Canada, Li-Cycle was awarded a grant through Sustainable Development Technology Canada to construct a demonstration facility. The company is capable of processing all types of lithium-ion batteries used in electronic devices, e-mobility, electric vehicles and energy storage.

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APRIL 22, 2020

With its bi-directional design, the system also supports use of the vehicle’s batteries for energy storage. Doing so would give energy flexibility to a fleet owner’s business, and help better manage on-site generation such as solar power. —Mike Whitlatch, vice president of Global Energy and Procurement for UPS.

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APRIL 20, 2018

However, China has been making large investments in recent years for lithium battery manufacturing, which supports the goal to become the leading nation in the new energy market. In 2016, the top three by wet-process separator sales in China were Shanghai Energy, Suzhou GreenPower, and Foshan Jinhui Hi-tech Optoelectronic.

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