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Altairnano signs MoU with Shenhua subsidiaries for industrial Li-ion energy storage systems in China

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Shenhua S&T and NICE are both subsidiaries of the Shenhua Group, which is the world’s largest producer of coal, and the largest integrated energy company in China. The MoU calls for the launch of a pilot project to deploy and test an Altairnano ALTI-ESS Advantage System at one of Shenhua’s wind farms in China.

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Electrovaya to provide repurposed end-of-life electric vehicle Li-ion battery energy storage system to Manitoba Hydro

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The repurposed batteries could be used to store electricity generated by renewable energy systems, such as wind and solar power. First, Lithium-ion batteries become an even more environmentally sustainable product. And two, we help utility companies make wind and solar energy generation as reliable as hydro, nuclear, and coal.

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Stanford study quantifies energetic costs of grid-scale energy storage over time; current batteries the worst performers; the need to improve cycle life by 3-10x

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Using a new metric—“Energy Stored on Invested, ESOI”—they concluded that batteries were the worst performers, while compressed air energy storage (CAES) performed the best, followed by pumped hydro storage (PHS). Their results are published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Li-S Battery : Development of High Energy Li-S Cells for Electric Vehicles.

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NREL: battery second use offsets EV expense, improves grid stability; recommendations

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NREL research confirms that after being used to power a car, a Li-ion battery retains approximately 70% of its initial capacity—making its reuse a valuable energy storage option for electric utilities, before battery materials are recycled.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Target energy density is 6-20 times that available state-of-the-art Li-ion batteries and at. Silicon Coated Nanofiber Paper as a Lithium-Ion Anode. Energy Efficient Capture of CO 2 from Coal Flue Gas. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., High Energy Density Lithium Batteries. CARBON CAPTURE.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

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But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary. How about a car-mounted wind-generator? The EPRI says lithium-ion batteries are ready now.

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