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MARCH 14, 2022

The European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA) will support Canadian mineral exploration and development company Mkango Resources Ltd.with securing financing for the development of a rare earth separation plant to be located in Pu?awy, awy, Poland. awy project is addressing several critical issues highlighted in the report.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Inceptio Technology, an autonomous driving truck technology and operation company ( earlier post ), closed a US$188-million Series B+ equity financing. This round of financing was jointly led by Sequoia Capital China and Legend Capital. Existing investors Meituan, NIO Capital, Eight Roads, Broad Vision Funds, etc. also participated.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

to finance the development and production of low-carbon fuels and energy transition metals. Our extensive experience in building, developing and financing natural resource assets and companies allows us to consider trade-offs of resource projects thoughtfully.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

SK On has secured a total of US$2 billion as its investment resource for its European battery business with the aid of Euler Hermes, a trade credit insurance institution of Germany, Korea Trade Insurance Corporation, and the Export-Import Bank of Korea. SK On plans to use the secured resources to invest in Plant No.3 trillion (US$2.5

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Europe Batteries Battery Financing 210

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MAY 8, 2022

The acquisition of the two mines was financed through US$36 million in debt, royalty and stream financing provided by funds managed by Sprott Resource Streaming and Royalty Corp. The balance of the financing proceeds will be used to fund the restart of operations in Namibia and for working capital purposes.

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Namibia Chinese Companies Financing 284

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APRIL 16, 2023

NFI, one of the US’ oldest and largest third-party supply chain solutions providers, is expanding its fleet of Class 8 battery-electric trucks (BETs) in Southern California as part of the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative ( JETSI ) project. million), MSRC ($8 million), and South Coast AQMD ($5.4 million), with an additional $21.7

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Virescent Ventures led the funding round on behalf of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) (Aus), with participation from Kiko Ventures (UK), IP Group Australia, Vestas Ventures (Denmark), Hostplus (Aus) and BlueScope (via its ventures arm BlueScopeX TM) (Aus). The Hysata electrolyzer operates at 95% system efficiency (41.5 Hoang, A.L.,

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JANUARY 12, 2023

The Chvaletice resource is the only sizeable, classified resource of manganese in the European Union. The commencement of the initial term shall be subject to successful qualification of the Company’s HPMSM from the Chvaletice Demonstration Plant in Verkor’s supply chain.

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MAY 4, 2017

has entered into a definitive supply agreement with HCS Holding GmbH (HCS) to supply renewable isooctane ( earlier post ) under a five-year offtake agreement. The Supply Agreement has two phases: In the first phase, HCS will purchase isooctane produced at Gevo’s demonstration hydrocarbon plant located in Silsbee, Texas.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

The plant is planned to supply coated spherical graphite anode material to the EV/battery markets in North America and beyond. On 21 December 2022, Northern and Graphex announced the signing of a non-binding letter of intent to negotiate a joint venture agreement to build a North American mine-to-battery supply chain.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Niron will use this financing to advance the commercial partnerships and pilot production of its rare earth-free Clean Earth Magnet, further demonstrating its potential to replace rare earth permanent magnets. million grant as part of its Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program.

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MAY 3, 2021

EnergyX) has secured commitments of $20 million in financing. On 19 April, Orocobre announced a $4-billion merger with Galaxy Resources to create a lithium major. In 2020 global supply was roughly 315k tons; this is expected to rise to 5.5M Direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology company Energy Exploration Technologies Inc.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Based on BNEF’s New Energy Outlook, its annual long-term scenario analysis on the future of the energy economy, the report examines how Indonesia’s energy supply may evolve under BNEF’s Economic Transition Scenario (ETS) as well as a Net Zero Scenario (NZS) compliant with the goals of the Paris Agreement. trillion under the NZS.

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JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. If this potential production supplied the Volt Gas Volt plants, the nuclear plants could operate at nearly 100% capacity. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 30, 2021

million in new financing. Niron says that its technology delivers magnets that are less expensive, more sustainable, globally available, and made from abundant input materials not subject to supply constraints or price instability. 2019.165962.

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MARCH 7, 2023

T&E used publicly available information to assess the 50 gigafactories announced in Europe based on their finance and permits, whether they had secured a location, and the companies’ links to the US. Without this expansion, Europe will not be able to satisfy its battery demand in 2030 and will need to import from foreign rivals.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The global push to convert the world to electric vehicles will cause supply chain complexities that could undermine the alternative energy transition in the United States, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The detailed report— Need Nickel? Global Nickel Trade and Chinese Dominance.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Parts of our key supply chains, including for clean energy, are currently over-concentrated in China,” US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said earlier this month during a visit to Chile, home to the largest lithium reserves. billion) into a financing facility to support exports. billion) into a financing facility to support exports.

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MARCH 21, 2022

This approach to water electrolysis supplies water to the hydrogen- and oxygen-evolving electordes via capillary-induced transport alone a porous inner-electrode separator. This leads to inherently bubble-free operation at the electrodes. Hodges et al. kWh/kg, compared to 75 percent or less for existing electrolyser technologies. Hoang, A.L.,

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Hydrogen Energy Water Renewable 396

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. While the new power station will supply 180% more power than the coal plant it replaces, SO 2 and NO x emissions will be reduced by more than 90%.

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Coal Financing Conversion Power 150

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JUNE 14, 2023

Critical minerals mined at the Brazilian sites will be refined in Europe and North America and then supplied to car manufacturers, fortifying the EV supply chain in western countries. Royal Gold, a major precious metal stream and royalty investor, has committed $250 million in royalty finance across both Atlantic Nickel and MVV.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

To promote environmentally-friendly, resource-efficient extraction of lithium, the BMW Group is investing , through its venture capital fund BMW i Ventures, in US startup Lilac Solutions. The BMW investment was part of Lilac’s just-closed US$150-million Series B financing.

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BMW Companies Financing Standards 236

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

South Africa-based Sasol and Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to study and to develop the market and supply chain for green ammonia with a focus on its use as bunkering fuel and for power generation. Japan is expected to be a large importer of green ammonia in the future.

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South Africa Hydrogen Green Africa 186

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Action Plan looks at the current and future challenges and proposes actions to reduce Europe’s dependency on third countries, diversifying supply from both primary and secondary sources and improving resource efficiency and circularity while promoting responsible sourcing worldwide. It contains 30 critical raw materials.

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Europe International Supplies Africa 365

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MARCH 7, 2021

The Finnish Minerals Group (FMG), which manages the Finnish State’s mining industry shareholdings, is the largest shareholder in Keliber and is focused on creating partnerships and co-investments with a view to developing the Finnish battery electric vehicle supply chain. The project financing would include both a debt and equity component.

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Finland Batteries Battery Financing 243

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JUNE 15, 2012

China-based Shengquan Group and Novozymes finalized an enzyme supply deal for the production of cellulosic ethanol. — To continue to grow our country’s economy while at the same time lessen our dependency on natural resources and minimizing the environmental impact, we need to start thinking of waste as a valuable resource.

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Supplies Denmark Production China 281

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The penetration of FNLG in Africa, which started in Cameroon and expanded to Angola and Mozambique and now to Senegal, Mauritania and Nigeria, highlights Africa’s commitment to unlocking the full exploitation of its gas resources. The FLNG facility will have a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) nameplate production capacity of 1.2

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Nigeria Gas Mauritania Cameroon 186

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The conditional commitment follows DOE technical, market, financial and legal due diligence and marks another significant milestone endorsing Li-Cycle’s development of the first commercial hydrometallurgical resource recovery facility in North America, located near Rochester, New York.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Hyundai Motor will supply its fuel cell electric commercial vehicles to major logistics companies in the Yangtze River Delta area where the company is going to establish and manage a fuel cell electric commercial vehicle operating company. In addition, it plans to promote a pilot operation business of fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Hyundai Commercial China Motor 356

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JULY 15, 2020

The vision for the ESGC is, by 2030, to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage utilization and exports, with a secure domestic manufacturing base and supply chain that is independent of foreign sources of critical materials. Over the Fiscal Years 2017-2019, DOE has invested more than $1.2

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Energy Storage Energy United States Financing 300

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JUNE 2, 2023

We are pleased to reach this strategic step in partnering with Obeikan that paves the way for significant Opex savings including greatly reduced energy and financing costs, and a much lower taxation rate.

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MAY 10, 2023

an industry leader in lithium-ion battery resource recovery and the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, signed a Letter of Intent to jointly study the feasibility of, and later, develop a Hub facility in Portovesme, Italy.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

At that time, Mascoma, Valero, and Mascoma’s operating subsidiary, Frontier Renewable Resources LLC, jointly owned with natural resource management company, J.M. Hardwood pulpwood is a selectively harvested, naturally regenerated feedstock and is an underutilized, abundant resource in the surrounding area.

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Financing Commercial Michigan Corporation 210

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Vulcan Energy Resources, the company developing Zero Carbon Lithium projects to produce both renewable geothermal energy and lithium hydroxide for electric vehicles from the same deep brine source in the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany, has signed a binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement with LG Energy Solution (LGES).

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JULY 11, 2021

Several companies have initiated a “Responsible Lithium Partnership” aiming to work towards responsible natural resource management, including lithium, in Chile’s Salar de Atacama. This cross-industry partnership is funded at its inception by BASF, Daimler AG, Fairphone, and Volkswagen Group.

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Chile Water Financing Purchase 186

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Rio Tinto, Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ) and the Government of Mongolia have reached an agreement that will move the Oyu Tolgoi (OT) copper mine project ( earlier post ) forward, resetting the relationship between the partners and increasing the value the project delivers for Mongolia.

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Mongolia Financing Tax Grid 150

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Daimler Truck supplies industry leading transportation solutions and services to customers. In this process, the company plans to assign resources and teams from today’s Daimler Mobility to both Mercedes-Benz and Daimler Truck. Both companies operate in industries that are facing major technological and structural changes.

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