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FREYR Battery sanctions construction of its inaugural gigafactory, increases plant capacity to 29 GWh; $1.7B capital cost

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FREYR’s Board of Directors has sanctioned construction of Giga Arctic (combined Gigafactories 1 & 2), the company’s first battery manufacturing facility under development in Mo i Rana, Norway. It is therefore important for Norway to define a clear direction and set ambitious goals for battery production in our country.

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FREYR Battery chooses Mpac Lambert for supply of battery cell assembly equipment package to customer qualification plant

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FREYR Battery, a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, has signed a contract with Mpac Lambert for the supply of the casting and unit cell assembly equipment package to the battery cell production line at FREYR’s Customer Qualification Plant (CQP) in Mo i Rana, Norway. Earlier post.).

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. The first call for large-scale projects awarded grants of €1.1

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Promising results for low-pressure casting of aluminum bolts

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It is thus important to exploit the material as optimally as possible, and a new casting technology developed in Norway has the potential to do just that. The HyForge project is being funded by the Research Council of Norway under project grant no.

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Bio Architecture Lab and Statoil Partner to Commercialize Macroalgae-to-Ethanol Process in Norway

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Under terms of the agreement, Statoil will fund BAL’s research and development and demonstration projects, and if successful, will also fund the commercialization of BAL’s technology in Norway and elsewhere in Europe. In total, the company has received more than $34 million in funding, grants and strategic investments.

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HYON receives PILOT-E funding for two zero-emissions maritime projects using fuel cells and green H2

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HYON AS has, together with partners, been awarded grants under Norway’s PILOT-E scheme for the development and realization of two maritime projects; a high-speed ferry and a short-sea freighter. Final agreements for the grant will be signed early 2019, upon which the project will commence immediately thereafter.

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Tesla’s years of battery tech investments are becoming a buffer against nickel’s rising costs

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Being a key component of its high-performance batteries, Musk stated back in 2020 that any company that can provide Tesla with environmentally-friendly nickel would be granted with a massive contract. Tesla also managed to handle the rising cost of nickel by using batteries that do not use the material at all.