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APRIL 21, 2020

The technology group Wärtsilä has been granted €1 million in funding by Business Finland, a state-run public agency for funding important research projects, to support research in the field of Power-to-X (P2X) technology. It gives us a brilliant opportunity to speed up the move to a 100 percent renewable energy future.

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JUNE 22, 2021

The ultimate goal is to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the process by fully using fossil-free inputs and fossil-free energy in all parts of the value chain. This means that we can meet the climate goals in Sweden, Finland and contribute to reducing emissions throughout Europe. The potential cannot be underestimated.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, and Veolia recently signed a long-term partnership agreement on the refining of crude methanol generated in pulp production at the Äänekoski bioproduct mill into commercial biomethanol. The refinery, owned and operated by Veolia, will be adjacent and partly built into Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski plant in Finland.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

Wärtsilä Finland, the energy companies Vaasan Sähkö and EPV Energia, and the City of Vaasa, Finland have signed a letter of intent to cooperate in a project aimed at utilizing emissions-free hydrogen in power generation, industry and transportation applications. —Matti Rautkivi, Director, New Business, Wärtsilä Energy.

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JULY 15, 2023

In April, the company started operating a hydrometallurgical facility in Harjavalta, Finland that is today Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling facility. Fortum Battery Recycling is part of the Fortum portfolio. The central-European growth plans will help to meet battery manufacturers’ rising demand for recycled battery materials.

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MAY 28, 2019

With nuclear power facing an uncertain future in many countries, the world risks a steep decline in its use in advanced economies that could result in billions of tonnes of additional carbon emissions, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. It is second only to hydropower at 16%.

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JULY 24, 2022

The location, in the center of Canada’s automotive eco-system, offers critical advantages such as access to a highly skilled workforce, key infrastructure and renewable energy, which the new plant will be running on 100% from start of production. Access to renewable energy across its sites is a key lever to reaching this goal.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

million in funding from Business Finland in January. The development work is also augmented by a group of companies of which some have their own parallel Business-Finland-funded projects. Altogether, €6 million is invested in the development of the production of e-fuels in Finland.

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JULY 13, 2022

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. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The project, called “European Battery Innovation” (EuBatIn) was jointly prepared and notified by Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. In 2018, the Commission adopted the Strategic Action Plan for Batteries and has promoted a wide range of initiatives as part of the plan.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Finnish Minerals Group and Beijing Easpring Material Technology have been investigating and negotiating the possibility to establish a cathode active materials (CAM) plant in Kotka, Finland with an initial capacity of 50,000 t/a and potential for future expansion for the production of cathode active material for lithium-ion batteries.

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JULY 15, 2023

The grant will be funded through the EU’s Innovation Fund (EUIF) as part of the EU’s efforts to promote localized production of battery solutions. FREYR Battery has been awarded a €100-million grant from the European Union to support development of FREYR’s Giga Arctic project in Norway.

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JULY 15, 2021

Full-scale engine tests have been recently carried out in Wärtsilä’s engine laboratory in Vaasa, Finland, to assess the optimum engine parameters for running on these fuels. For the energy market, Wärtsilä expects to have an engine and plant concept for pure hydrogen operation ready by 2025. —Håkan Agnevall, CEO of Wärtsilä.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The consortium of companies will, together with SINTEF and the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), initiate the project “Sustainable Materials for the Battery Value Chain” (SUMBAT). The Green Platform provides companies and research institutes with support for research- and innovation-driven energy transformation.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The new plant is part of BASF’s multi-step investment plan in the European battery materials market and will use precursors (PCAM) from the company’s previously announced plant in Harjavalta, Finland. —Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy.

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MAY 19, 2022

Part of this is that GVB provides completely emission-free bus transport in 2025. Amsterdam has developed the Route Map Amsterdam Climate Neutral 2050: the city will reduce its CO 2 emissions by 5% in 2025, 55% in 2030 and 95% in 2050 compared to 1990 levels. With this order, the GVB fleet will eventually be entirely VDL.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

In an open-access paper in the journal Energy & Fuels, a team from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Ghent University, provides an overview of co-processing options for such bio-liquids. Christian Lindfors, Douglas C. 2c04238.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We are very pleased to announce that we have made strong progress in establishing a framework that would allow us to secure a large part of the critical raw materials required for our initial production facilities.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Renault Group and Finland-based metals producer Terrafame have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the future supply of nickel sulfate. Bioleaching is an energy-efficient way of producing nickel. —Gianluca De Ficchy, Alliance EVP, Purchasing and Managing Director of Alliance Purchasing Organization at Renault Group.

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JULY 3, 2020

The technology group Wärtsilä, in close customer cooperation with Knutsen OAS Shipping AS and Repsol, as well as with the Sustainable Energy Catapult Centre, will commence the world’s first long-term, full-scale, testing of ammonia as a fuel in a marine four-stroke combustion engine. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 16, 2023

Mercedes-Benz Trucks development and test engineers tested the operational readiness of the eActros LongHaul and eActros 300 as a tractor unit under extreme conditions at temperatures down to minus 25 degrees Celsius in Rovaniemi, in northern Finland. (In In addition, thermal and energy management systems were subjected to intensive testing.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

BASF has selected Harjavalta, Finland, as the first location for battery materials production serving the European automotive market. This investment is part of BASF’s €400-million multi-step investment plan announced last year and builds upon initial battery materials production started in Harjavalta in 2018.

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JUNE 21, 2021

The new chemistry reduces the battery’s internal resistance, allowing it to absorb more energy during energy recuperation and at the same time offering improved performance for fast charging. With this material, it now seems possible to increase the power density compared to current series batteries significantly.

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JULY 16, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. It is an indispensable component for the diversification of energy sources and the green transition.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Wh/kg cell energy density for a total 47kWh capacity, and an electrical output of 585 volts. A second eLNO plant is also planned in Finland. JM’s Board has therefore decided to pursue the sale of all or parts of this business with the ultimate intention of exiting.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Neste Oil, the world’s largest producer of premium-quality renewable fuels, is working with DONG Energy, one of the leading energy groups in Northern Europe, to develop an integrated process to produce renewable diesel and aviation fuel derived from agricultural residues. —Henrik Maimann, Vice President at DONG Energy.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), a leading global provider of battery and energy storage solutions, has taken a 22% stake in Finland-based Valmet Automotive as part of a new strategic partnership in electric automotive solutions. —Ilpo Korhonen, CEO, Valmet Automotive.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

eLNO enables batteries with around 20% greater energy density compared to today’s typical NMC cathode material technology. A second eLNO plant is also planned in Finland. A customizable family of nickel-rich cathode materials, eLNO will meet specific battery performance requirements for individual electric vehicle platforms.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

An international team of scientists led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside has modified the energy spectrum of acoustic phonons—elemental excitations, also referred to as quasi-particles, that spread heat through crystalline materials like a wave—by confining them to nanometer-scale semiconductor structures.

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APRIL 29, 2013

Finland-based forestry-industry company UPM, VTT and VV-Auto Group will start fleet tests of renewable diesel produced mainly from crude tall oil, which is a residue of chemical pulp production, UPM BioVerno. The fleet tests are a part of a larger project coordinated by VTT. Earlier post.) Bio-hydrocarbons Biomass Diesel'

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Steelmaker SSAB will start using liquified natural gas (LNG) in its Raahe (Finland) steel mill, where it will replace the use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the walking beam furnace in the strip mill and be as a support and additional fuel in the boiler in Raahe Voima’s power plant. Deliveries to Raahe will start in early 2018.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules an Important Project of Common European interest (IPCEI) jointly notified by Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden to support research and innovation in the common European priority area of batteries. stationary energy storage, power tools, etc.).

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JUNE 14, 2012

H2 Logic A/S put another hydrogen station into operation in Lilleström, Norway as part of the Akershus Energypark that is to develop and test a wide range of hydrogen technologies. The new H2Station builds upon similar stations delivered in the past 12 months for Denmark, Norway and Finland.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

The campaign is a good example of how waste and residues can be utilized in energy production and as a raw material for renewable fuels. The idea for the campaign started from the Chemical Industry Federation of Finland and attracted a number of companies and associations.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. As part of this, we have built a demonstration facility in Varkaus with Stora Enso to process and refine forest-derived biomass into traffic fuel.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Finland-based UPM, one of the world’s leading forest products groups, will build a hydrotreatment biorefinery producing biofuels from crude tall oil in Lappeenranta, Finland. A significant part of the raw material comes from UPM’s own pulp mills in Finland. UPM biofuels process. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 14, 2023

With its low energy consumption, the eActros 600 is intended to be the most economical long-haul truck from Mercedes-Benz Trucks for customers compared to the conventional diesel Actros. Prototypes of the vehicle were put through their paces during winter testing in Finland at the beginning of the year.

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