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OCTOBER 23, 2021

Benchmark Minerals reports that China’s ongoing energy shortage, which has seen local governments enforce intermittent power cuts since July 2021, has begun to affect domestic anode and cathode production as several producers were forced to scale back production in late Q3.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

First Solar signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Chinese government to build a 2 gigawatt solar power plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China. The project will operate under a feed-in-tariff which will guarantee the pricing of electricity produced by the power plant over a long-term period.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Taiwan’s Teco Group will start producing the first batch of in-wheel (hub) electric motors in April or May, according. The hub motors will be installed in electric buses in Japan, with each vehicle using eight such propulsion devices. who will soon unveil such product in partnerships with Chinese companies.

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Motor Motors Motoring Mongolia 170

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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OCTOBER 9, 2022

Much of this is also sourced from Chinese-owned mines in the DRC. The majority of this comes either from Inner Mongolia where electricity is cheap, or Sichuan province where there is abundant hydroelectric power. Almost 60% of lithium refining occurred in China, despite just 13% of lithium being mined there.

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