Future, Supplies and Wind

Sandia innovation eliminates reliance on rare-earth magnets for large-scale wind turbines

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Motivated by the need to eliminate expensive rare-earth magnets in utility-scale direct-drive wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a fundamentally new type of rotary electrical contact. Most of the current utility-scale wind turbines are dependent on rare-earth magnets, Koplow said. 1 milliohm).

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Wind Maintenance Supplies Renewable

MAN supplying mixed medium- and high-speed engines for hybrid foundation/wind turbine installation vessels

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DECEMBER 17, 2022

MAN Energy Solutions has won a fourth order to supply engines to Chinese shipbuilder, COSCO Heavy Industries, in Qidong for the construction of a second F-Class installation vessel used for the installation of offshore wind turbines and foundations. The previous three orders were for engines for two X-class and another F-class vessel.

Wind

Wind Installation Engine Supplies

Statkraft to supply renewable power for Fortescue’s Holmaneset 300 MW green hydrogen & green ammonia project

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APRIL 3, 2023

Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has secured renewable power for its proposed Holmaneset green energy project , entering into a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Statkraft. The Group produces hydropower, wind power, solar power, gas-fired power and supplies district heating.

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Green Renewable Supplies Hydrogen

Argonne study finds rare earth supply disruptions can have long-range impacts

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MAY 24, 2021

Disruptions to this supply can have wide-ranging consequences, but the understanding of how those disruptions play out in global markets is limited. Rare earth elements are essential to many emerging technologies, including those that support a clean energy future. Causes of supply disruptions. Riddle et al.

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Supplies Range Wind Market

BASF and RWE proposing 2GW offshore wind farm for green electricity and hydrogen for chemical industry

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MAY 23, 2021

Markus Krebber (RWE), accompanied by Chairman of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industries Union (IG BCE) Michael Vassiliadis, presented a project idea that envisions a new 2 GW offshore wind farm in the German North Sea to provide the Ludwigshafen chemical site with green electricity and enable CO 2 -free production of hydrogen.

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Wind Hydrogen Green Industrial

IIASA study proposes solid air hydrogen liquefaction as efficient addition to hydrogen liquefaction supply chain

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APRIL 30, 2023

A new approach developed by researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and international colleagues proposes using solid air (nitrogen or oxygen) as a medium for recycling cooling energy across the hydrogen liquefaction supply chain. The Solid Air Hydrogen Liquefaction process © Hunt et al.

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Hydrogen Supplies Climate Change Economy

Fraunhofer IFF team designing hydrogen factory of the future

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APRIL 11, 2020

Researchers at the Fraunhofer IFF in Germany are designing the distributed and modular production and distribution of green hydrogen for industry, business and transportation throughout the value chain—a hydrogen factory of the future. The hydrogen factory of the future. It is not possible to build wind and PV plants everywhere.

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Hydrogen Future Design Ozone

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

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JUNE 23, 2022

Energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop, build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities that will supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required to produce low-emissions steel in Germany.

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Wind Hydrogen Emissions Building

Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

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JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. In the future, the fuel-cell-suitable crude methanol as well as the cleaned methanol will be sold industrially as e-fuel. FlexMethanol.

Wind

Wind Conversion Power Powered

Wärtsilä hybrid propulsion system with methanol engine to power four SAL heavy lift vessels; wind farm installations

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its hybrid propulsion system for four new heavy lift vessels being built at the Wuhu Shipyard in China. For each vessel, Wärtsilä will also supply the gearbox, the controllable pitch propeller (CPP), the bow and stern thrusters, air shaft seals, as well as the sterntube and bearings.

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Installation Wind Hybrid Engine

Biden Administration launching offshore wind offensive

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MARCH 30, 2021

The Biden Administration announced a series of measures to support rapid offshore wind deployment, including designation of a new wind energy area and targeting the deployment of 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030. New Wind Energy Area. Deploying 30 GW of Offshore Wind by 2030.

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Wind New Jersey Grant New York

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants to source electricity from German wind farms

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020. Statkraft is an important player in energy trading.

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Wind Mercedes Cars Germany

Cargill and BAR Technologies bringing wind propulsion to bulk cargo ships

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Cargill and BAR Technologies have embarked on a strategic project with naval architect Deltamarin to bring cutting edge wind propulsion technology to commercial shipping. Through this partnership we will bring bespoke wind solutions to customers who are actively seeking to reduce CO 2 emissions from their supply chain.

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Wind Mariner Emissions 2008

S&P Global: looming shortfalls in copper supply will short-circuit net-zero goals absent significant new supply

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JULY 15, 2022

The challenge of meeting Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 “will be short-circuited and remain out of reach” unless significant new copper supply comes online in a timely way, according to a new study by S&P Global that examines the growing mismatch between available copper supply and future demand resulting from the energy transition.

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Wärtsilä to collaborate with Anemoi Marine Technologies in future sales of Rotor Sail solutions

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) tied to a License and Cooperation agreement with UK-based Anemoi Marine Technologies for the future sales and servicing of Rotor Sail solutions to the shipping industry. —Kim Diederichsen, CEO of Anemoi Marine Technologies.

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Mariner Future Sale Wind

IEA: governments must act to ensure sufficient supply of critical minerals to meet net-zero goals

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MAY 6, 2021

A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a similarly sized gas-fired power plant. Wind takes the lead, bolstered by material-intensive offshore wind. Source: IEA. Source: IEA.

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MAN Energy Solutions and Fraunhofer IST analyze options for cost-efficient hydrogen supply to Salzgitter industrial cluster

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

MAN Energy Solutions and the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films (IST) have published their analysis of the framework conditions for the future supply of green hydrogen to the Salzgitter steel site near Hannover. —Marc Grünewald, Head of Business Development, Power and New Energies at MAN Energy Solutions.

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Hydrogen Tunisia Supplies Industrial

This renewables giant is going to use wooden wind turbine towers

Electrek

MARCH 31, 2023

Swedish startup Modvion is going to supply power giant RWE Renewables with wooden wind turbine towers for future onshore wind farms. more… The post This renewables giant is going to use wooden wind turbine towers appeared first on Electrek.

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Wind Renewable Supplies Future

Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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Wind Hydrogen Grid Gas-Electric

MIT proof-of-concept demo of ionic wind propulsion for aircraft

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

MIT researchers have demonstrated that an aircraft with a 5-meter wingspan can sustain steady-level flight using ionic-wind propulsion. He expects that in the near-term, such ion wind propulsion systems could be used to fly less noisy drones. The MIT team’s final design resembles a large, lightweight glider. EAD airplane design.

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MIT Wind Concept Convert

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Joint development of offshore wind farms that will enable production of renewable hydrogen as fuel for power and other industrial customers in the future. Blue hydrogen in large quantities can make a start, with subsequent conversion into green hydrogen supply. Export of hydrogen by pipeline from Norway to Germany.

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Norway Germany Hydrogen Power

The size of Washington State’s largest wind farm just got cut by 50%

Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Washington State’s energy board cut the size of what would have been the state’s largest wind farm in half yesterday – here’s why. Wind farm controversy in Washington State The $1.7 billion, 1,150-megawatt (MW) Horse Heaven Clean Energy Center combines wind, solar, and battery storage. Get started here. –

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Washington Wind Solar Renewable

Tesla to supply 100MW/129 MWh Powerpack to South Australia wind farm

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JULY 7, 2017

Through a competitive bidding process, Tesla was selected to provide a 100 MW/129 MWh Powerpack system to be paired with global renewable energy provider Neoen’s Hornsdale Wind Farm near Jamestown, South Australia. Tesla was awarded the entire energy storage system component of the project.

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Australia Wind Supplies Energy Storage

Wärtsilä hits methanol milestone with first newbuild engine order

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JANUARY 25, 2022

A new Offshore Wind Installation Vessel (WIV) being built for Dutch contracting company Van Oord at Yantai CIMC Raffles shipyard in China will be powered by five Wärtsilä 32 engines capable of operating with methanol. Green methanol is among the potential and most promising future fuel candidates. Van Oord.

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Engine Mariner Wind Alternative Fuels

Wärtsilä gas engines to burn 100% hydrogen

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MAY 6, 2020

This development is part of the company’s strategy to future-proof its engine technology in line with the global trend towards decarbonization of the energy and marine markets. Hydrogen as part of the renewable electricity system of the future. —Marco Wiren, President, Wärtsilä Energy Business.

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Hydrogen Gas Engine Wind

TEPCO and Toyota develop stationary storage battery system using EV batteries

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JUNE 3, 2023

This system will be installed in the Eurus Tashirotai Wind Farm by Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation, and the four companies will begin a collaborative verification project around fall of this year.

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Toyota Batteries Battery Energy Storage

This huge floating offshore wind project will marry up with a sustainable fish farm

Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

gigawatt (GW) Swedish floating offshore wind farm is going to be paired with an innovative sustainable fish farming system. SubFarm’s aquaculture cages will be situated between Mareld’s floating wind turbine foundations and tethered with their own anchoring system. Rendering: SubFarm A 2.5 SubFarm’s system can be monitored remotely.

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Wind Sweden Solar Installation

Hitachi Astemo to provide inverters and motors to JATCO, which will supply e-Axles to Nissan battery-electric and e-POWER vehicles

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

will provide inverters and motors to JATCO, which will supply e-Axles to Nissan’s future e-POWER and battery electric vehicles. It will also supply motors and inverters for electric axles assembled by automobile and gearbox manufacturers. Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.

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Motor Motors Motoring Supplies

BP selects Tesla batteries for pilot storage project at US wind farm

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APRIL 11, 2018

BP Wind Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Rolling Thunder I Power Partners LLC, has signed a purchase agreement to install a high-storage battery at its Titan 1 Wind Farm in South Dakota. Situated on 7,500 acres in Hand County, Titan 1 Wind Farm is wholly owned and operated by BP Wind Energy.

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Wind South Dakota Batteries Battery

Toyota and Woven Planet develop portable hydrogen cartridge prototype

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JUNE 2, 2022

This cartridge design will facilitate the everyday transport and supply of hydrogen energy to power a broad range of daily life applications in and outside of the home. In the future, Toyota expects hydrogen will be generated with very low carbon emissions and used in a wider variety of applications.

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Hydrogen Toyota Carbon Supplies

Rolls-Royce launches mtu hydrogen solutions for power generation

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

Rolls-Royce is further developing its mtu gas engine portfolio for power generation and cogeneration to run on hydrogen as a fuel and thus enable a climate-neutral energy supply. In addition, fuel cells powered by 100% green hydrogen can play an important role in future energy supply in combination with renewable energies.

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Hydrogen Power Powered Climate Protection

Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

We are transitioning from a demand-led energy system, where power generation can be easily turned on and off to match demand, to one that is led by supply from variable and inflexible sources. Grid balancing is about ensuring electricity supply meets demand second-by-second, by regulating properties including power, voltage and frequency.

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Grid Power Powered Fuel

BloombergNEF: solar, wind, batteries to attract $10T to 2050; curbing emissions long-term will require other technologies

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JUNE 19, 2019

Deep declines in wind, solar and battery technology costs will result in a grid nearly half-powered by the two fast-growing renewable energy sources by 2050, according to the latest projections from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Wind and solar grow from 7% of generation today to 48% by 2050.

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Wind Solar Emissions Batteries

Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

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JUNE 19, 2018

The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. trillion of that going to wind and solar and a further $1.5

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Wind Solar Global Coal

Toyota and partners launch low-carbon hydrogen supply-chain project in Japan

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APRIL 26, 2018

The project is a first step toward realizing the 2030 vision of a low-carbon hydrogen supply chain formulated by the Aichi Low-carbon Hydrogen Supply Chain Promotion Association, a body which includes the Aichi prefectural government, companies operating within the prefecture, municipal authorities, and experts. The project.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Carbon Supplies Japan

US$105M WESTKÜSTE100 green hydrogen project receives funding approval from German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs

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AUGUST 10, 2020

Starting from today, the WESTKÜSTE100 partners will be working together to create this green future and build an ecologically and economically sustainable business model. In a future stage, there are plans to supply a hydrogen filling station. We see the energy transition as a cross-sectoral endeavour.

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Hydrogen Green Wind Grid

Wind Turbine Blades Destined for the Afterlife

Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

This group of wind-turbine fan blades, fresh from Siemens Gamesa’s new RecycleBlade manufacturing process at England’s largest such factory, await shipment to the various points around the globe where they will serve 20- to 30-year stints generating electricity at wind farms before they’re recalled and reincarnated. What’s Next?

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Wind Coal Taxi Light

bp and Oman form strategic partnership to progress significant renewable energy and hydrogen development

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JANUARY 17, 2022

As part of the agreement, bp will capture and evaluate solar and wind data from 8,000 km 2 of land—an area more than five times the size of Greater London. The renewable energy resources could also supply renewable power for the development of green hydrogen, targeting both domestic and global export markets.

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Oman Renewable Hydrogen Energy

Rolls-Royce and EasyJet mark first run of modern aero engine on hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The ground test was conducted on an early concept demonstrator using green hydrogen created by wind and tidal power. It marks a major step towards proving that hydrogen could be a zero carbon aviation fuel of the future and is a key proof point in the decarbonization strategies of both Rolls-Royce and easyJet.

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Hydrogen Engine Concept Mariner

IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

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JUNE 15, 2019

In a major new report on hydrogen, the International Energy Agency says that the time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. The world should not miss this unique chance to make hydrogen an important part of our clean and secure energy future. —Dr Birol.

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Clean Cleaning Affordable Future

Volkswagen outlines coming changes to charging for its EVs

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies. Mobile charging – also with Plug & Charge in future. models with a 77 kWh battery will have this capability in future. App on their smartphone.

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Charging Wind Renewable Plug-in

Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

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MAY 24, 2022

The high-temperature SOEC unit’s high degree of automation and auto-response capability, across the entire hydrogen process, minimize oversight and training requirements—as well as associated risks—for efficient, convenient on-site hydrogen production and supply. —Roeland Baan, CEO at Topsoe.

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Power Powered Production Denmark

Volkswagen Group’s PowerCo breaks ground on second cell gigafactory

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MARCH 18, 2023

Gigafactory Valencia will start production of the unified cell in 2026 and will directly employ more than 3,000 people in the future, with a further up to 30,000 indirect jobs potentially being created at suppliers and partners in Spain according to a recent study. Thomas in Ontario/Canada, two of them already under construction.

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Spain Solar Low Cost Supplies

ERMA supporting Mkango in development of rare earth separation plant in Poland

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MARCH 14, 2022

This plant will be supplied with rare earth carbonate originating from Mkango’s Songwe Hill primary deposit of rare earth elements in Malawi, Africa. The plant will also be able to process other materials supplied by third-party providers thus acting as a future European Hub for rare earth elements separation. awy, Poland.

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Poland Malawi Africa Financing

Sandia innovation eliminates reliance on rare-earth magnets for large-scale wind turbines

MAN supplying mixed medium- and high-speed engines for hybrid foundation/wind turbine installation vessels

Statkraft to supply renewable power for Fortescue’s Holmaneset 300 MW green hydrogen & green ammonia project

Argonne study finds rare earth supply disruptions can have long-range impacts

BASF and RWE proposing 2GW offshore wind farm for green electricity and hydrogen for chemical industry

IIASA study proposes solid air hydrogen liquefaction as efficient addition to hydrogen liquefaction supply chain

Fraunhofer IFF team designing hydrogen factory of the future

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

Wärtsilä hybrid propulsion system with methanol engine to power four SAL heavy lift vessels; wind farm installations

Biden Administration launching offshore wind offensive

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants to source electricity from German wind farms

Cargill and BAR Technologies bringing wind propulsion to bulk cargo ships

S&P Global: looming shortfalls in copper supply will short-circuit net-zero goals absent significant new supply

Wärtsilä to collaborate with Anemoi Marine Technologies in future sales of Rotor Sail solutions

IEA: governments must act to ensure sufficient supply of critical minerals to meet net-zero goals

MAN Energy Solutions and Fraunhofer IST analyze options for cost-efficient hydrogen supply to Salzgitter industrial cluster

This renewables giant is going to use wooden wind turbine towers

Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

MIT proof-of-concept demo of ionic wind propulsion for aircraft

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

The size of Washington State’s largest wind farm just got cut by 50%

Tesla to supply 100MW/129 MWh Powerpack to South Australia wind farm

Wärtsilä hits methanol milestone with first newbuild engine order

Wärtsilä gas engines to burn 100% hydrogen

TEPCO and Toyota develop stationary storage battery system using EV batteries

This huge floating offshore wind project will marry up with a sustainable fish farm

Hitachi Astemo to provide inverters and motors to JATCO, which will supply e-Axles to Nissan battery-electric and e-POWER vehicles

BP selects Tesla batteries for pilot storage project at US wind farm

Toyota and Woven Planet develop portable hydrogen cartridge prototype

Rolls-Royce launches mtu hydrogen solutions for power generation

Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

BloombergNEF: solar, wind, batteries to attract $10T to 2050; curbing emissions long-term will require other technologies

Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

Toyota and partners launch low-carbon hydrogen supply-chain project in Japan

US$105M WESTKÜSTE100 green hydrogen project receives funding approval from German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs

Wind Turbine Blades Destined for the Afterlife

bp and Oman form strategic partnership to progress significant renewable energy and hydrogen development

Rolls-Royce and EasyJet mark first run of modern aero engine on hydrogen

IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

Volkswagen outlines coming changes to charging for its EVs

Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

Volkswagen Group’s PowerCo breaks ground on second cell gigafactory

ERMA supporting Mkango in development of rare earth separation plant in Poland

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