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GE posts $63M in orders for Durathon sodium-halide battery systems

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With more than one billion people—and potential cell phone subscribers—living in remote areas with no accessible power grid, operators are often forced to continuously power cellular base stations using diesel fuel.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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This is due to the DRC’s proximity to cathode raw materials and heavy reliance on hydroelectric power plants. The DRC’s cost competitiveness comes from its relatively cheap access to land and low engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, cost compared to the US, Poland and China.

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