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

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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. EEG subsidy ending starting in 2021. million households.

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Hyundai Motor to integrate green energy into Charge myHyundai service in Europe

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Using the e-mobility service provider Digital Charging Solutions’ (DCS) green charging option, the company will ensure that, for every charge undertaken by customers via its pan-European integrated public charging service, the equivalent amount of energy is fed back into the grid as green electricity.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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It can also provide lowest-cost long-term storage for electrical grids relying on renewable energy. SGH2 is in negotiations to launch similar projects in France, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Poland, Turkey, Russia, China, Brazil, Malaysia and Australia.

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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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A similar plant in China and Poland would cost an estimated $112 million and $65 million, respectively. Precursor material produced at plants in the DRC could be cost competitive with material produced in China and Poland but with a lower environmental footprint. Capital cost to build a 10k metric-ton battery precursor plant.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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In the future, 100% of additional purchased electricity will come from verifiable renewable sources, such as wind- and hydropower. In Jawor (Poland), a new CO 2 -neutral engine plant is being built. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted.

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EC awards €1.2B from NER300 “Robin Hood” mechanism for 23 renewable energy projects; 5 advanced biofuel projects targeted for €516.8M

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million); 6 wind projects (€273.2 million, US$52 million); 1 distributed renewable management (smart grids), with €8.2 winowice project in Poland will receive a maximum of €30.9 million, or US$687 million) for maximum funding of €629.3 million (US$836.5 million, US$363 million); 4 concentrated solar power projects (€203.3

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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When it comes online in 2026, Linglong One will have a capacity of 125 megawatts of electricity (MWe)—equivalent to around 40 onshore wind turbines. Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. startup NuScale.

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