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The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK

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gigawatt (GW) solar and wind farm will be built in Morocco’s Guelmim-Oued Noun region, and it will supply the UK with clean energy via subsea cables. more… The post The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK appeared first on Electrek. The twin 1.8

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Renault Group and Managem Group sign agreement for sustainable supply of Moroccan cobalt

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Renault Group and Managem Group , a Moroccan player in the mining and hydrometallurgy sector, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at securing the supply of low-carbon and responsible cobalt sulfate for electric batteries. billion from 2025 and a target of €3 billion.

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The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK [update]

Electrek

gigawatt (GW) solar and wind farm will be built in Morocco’s Guelmim-Oued Noun region, and it will supply the UK with clean energy via subsea cables. The post The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK [update] appeared first on Electrek. The twin 1.8

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ZF signs multi-year supply agreement with STMicroelectronics for silicon carbide devices for new inverters

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Under the terms of the multi-year contract, ST will supply a volume of double-digit millions of silicon carbide devices to be integrated in ZF’s new modular inverter architecture going into series production in 2025. With this strategically important step, we are strengthening our supply chain to be able to securely supply our customers.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Elcora acquires vanadium sites in quest to further position in battery technologies

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which includes ten (10) Vanadium licenses/concessions sites in Morocco. Furthermore, the Biden administration in the US has also pledged to deploy 1050-1570 gigawatts of solar power by 2050 and more than 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind in the United States by 2030. Elcora Advanced Materials has acquired STE ERMAZONE.A.R.L,

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The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector just came online

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High wind generation outputs in the UK and Denmark are unlikely to happen simultaneously, so surplus energy will be transmitted through the interconnector to where the level of demand is higher. The new Viking Link electricity interconnector has a capacity of 1.4 gigawatts (GW) and stretches for 475 miles under land and sea.

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