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Northern Graphite closes acquisition of two graphite mines; 3rd largest non-Chinese graphite company

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Northern now also has two large-scale development projects, Bissett Creek in Ontario and an expansion of Okanjande in Namibia, which it intends to build to meet growing EV demand. million in lease payments for use of the land and buildings. Bissett Creek has been independently rated as the highest margin graphite project in the world.

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BNEF: energy storage is a $1.2-trillion investment opportunity to 2040

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BNEF’s latest Long-Term Energy Storage Outlook sees the capital cost of a utility-scale lithium-ion battery storage system sliding another 52% between 2018 and 2030, on top of the steep declines seen earlier this decade. Especially developing countries in Africa will also see rapid growth in battery storage.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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Minigrids use distributed off-grid energy solutions that operate independently from the national transmission grid. Orajaka says his off-grid system of the first of its kind developed and implemented in Nigeria. Orajaka and the other founders have set their sights higher than just providing off-grid rural areas with electricity.

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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a software company that provides buildings with energy efficiency solutions. He served as the 2018–2019 president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (IEEE PES). Rahman set up IEEE PES Chapters' Councils in Africa, China, India, and Latin America. Rahman is also the founder and chairman of BEM Controls in McLean, Va.,

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Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

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BNEF predicts that lithium-ion battery prices, already down by nearly 80% per megawatt-hour since 2010, will continue to tumble as electric vehicle manufacturing builds up through the 2020s. —Seb Henbest, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for BNEF and lead author of NEO 2018. NEO 2018 sees $11.5

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Her team collaborated with Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE), an organization that couples tourism with humanitarian technology to provide solar energy in off-grid communities. Kiani traveled in 2018 to Cairns, Australia, for the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific will continue to drive PEV sales, as the technology will have only limited availability in the emerging markets of Latin America and Africa. At the same time, a few geographic markets will continue to prepare for FCV introduction by building hydrogen stations. Earlier post.).

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