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Haru Oni e-fuels demo plant in Chile officially opens

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E-Fuels company HIF Global, together with partners, authorities, and community representatives, celebrated the production of the first liters of synthetic gasoline at the Haru Oni Demonstration Plant in southern Chile. Chile’s Minister of Energy, Diego Pardow, headed the ceremony where a Porsche 911 was loaded with synthetic fuel.

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LME copper prices at 9-year high

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Total visible copper stocks (LME + COMEX + SHFE + Chinese bonded warehouses) amounted to just 560kt at the end of January, noted critical materials supply chain intelligence company Roskill—only 11kt more than the lowest recent stock level of 549kt in December 2019.

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BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

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The global benchmark levelized cost of electricity, or LCOE, has retreated to where it was in 2019. BloombergNEF’s estimates for the global LCOE for utility-scale PV and onshore wind rose to $45 and $46 per megawatt-hour (MWh), respectively, in the first half of 2022. The latter cost at $74 and $81 per MWh, respectively.

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Oversold Lithium could be about to rally

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It’s back with a vengeance in 2019. Investing in the commodity market can be a roller-coaster ride; what with the incessant boom-and-bust cycles driven by the ebb and flow in infrastructural spending, production ramps/cutbacks and stockpiling/destocking supplies. by Alex Kimani for Oilprice.com. And, they might be spot on.

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BMW Group to source lithium from Livent

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Livent will supply the lithium directly to the BMW Group’s battery cell manufacturers from 2022 on. The BMW Group already signed a contract for the procurement of lithium from hard-rock deposits at Australian mines back in 2019. The value of the multi-year contract will total around €285 million.

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Top electric vehicles battery manufacturers in India

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Lithium is among one of the costliest materials that are found outside of India, in other countries such as Chile Australia, China, Argentina, etc. In Chile, there are 8,600,000 tons of Lithium reserves. But these reserves are very less when compared with Chile, Australia, Argentina and China. Tata Chemicals.

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

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A supply chain that starts with mining and material extraction to then continue with conversion and refining of the materials and producing of battery chemicals, cells and pack. Climate impact of the battery supply chain. At current, the battery value chain is all global and often including all production on populated continents.