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Niron Magnetics secures $17.5M ARPA-E SCALEUP grant to boost production of FeN magnets

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million grant as part of its Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program. However, rare earth extraction can be environmentally destructive and the supply concentration poses geopolitical and sourcing risk, as 92% of rare earth magnet production is in China. Earlier post.).

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Berkeley Lab leading investigation to quantify and characterize Salton Sea’s geothermal lithium resources

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However, questions remain about the size of the resource, the potential rate of decline, the potential for regeneration, and sustainability of production. The Salton Sea geothermal system is the primary potential geothermal resource for lithium in the United States, and it’s a world-class resource. With nearly $1.2

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Rocsys to supply autonomous CCS charging solutions to SSA Marine for electric yard tractors at Port of Oakland

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Rocsys , the first company offering autonomous charging solutions that automate industry-standard CCS connectors, has signed an order of agreement with SSA Marine, the world’s largest independent, privately-held marine terminal operator, to supply ROC-1 autonomous charging systems.

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USGS investing more than $5.8M in critical-minerals mapping in Alaska

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million to map critical-mineral resources in Alaska in partnership with the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys. million through the USGS to advance scientific innovation and map critical minerals vital to the nation’s supply chains, national defense and economy. The US Geological Survey (USGS) will invest more than $5.8

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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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billion will go to 11 projects in the materials separation and processing segment of the supply chain. Anovion , Scaling the Domestic, US Owned and Operated Anode Supply Chain for Synthetic Graphite, $117,000,000. It will produce enough material to supply more than 250,000 electric vehicles annually. Of that, $1.6

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Japan V2G demonstrator project using EVs as virtual power plant resource; METI funding

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—have been selected by the Ministry for Economy, Transport and Infrastructure (METI) to receive grants under METI’s FY2018 Sustainable open Innovation Initiative (SII) to help fund “A Demonstrator Project for A Virtual Power Plant Utilizing Consumer Energy Resources (V2G Aggregator Project)”.

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BASF grants Pulead a sub-license under Argonne Lab NCM cathode material patents

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BASF has granted China-based battery cathode producer Pulead a sub-license under Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) patents related to nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) cathode materials for lithium ion batteries. BASF is the only licensee of ANL’s prominent NCM cathode materials patents with the ability to grant sub-licenses. Earlier post.)

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