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  1. BYD Energy Storage has launched a standardized battery storage unit with three configurations covering two- to six-hour applications and up to 62 MWh of capacity.#Batteries #EnergyStorage #Utility-scale
    BYD launches 62 MWh GC Block for gigawatt-scale battery storage plants - pv magazine Global
  2. Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point

    For years, the economic case for solar came with an awkward qualification. Yes, it had no fuel bill.…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #batteries #CA #Canada #energystorage #Grid #PowerGeneration #Science #solar #Utilities
    newsbeep.com/ca/876609/

  3. Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point

    For years, the economic case for solar came with an awkward qualification. Yes, it had no fuel bill.…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #batteries #energystorage #Grid #PowerGeneration #Science #solar #utilities
    newsbeep.com/au/873254/

  4. Take Centrica’s gas storage warning seriously – Britain still needs secure supplies | Nils Pratley
    By Nils Pratley

    One task awaiting new energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is devising a plan to avoid a crisis by the end of the decade

    theguardian.com/business/nils-

    #Gas #Energyindustry #UKnews #Business #Commodities #Centrica #MiattaFahnbulleh #Politics #Energystorage #TheGuardian #NilsPratley

  5. Hidrogen (H2): Solusi Energi Bersih Masa Depan

    Di tengah meningkatnya kebutuhan energi dan tuntutan untuk mengurangi emisi karbon, hidrogen (H₂) muncul sebagai salah satu solusi paling menjanjikan untuk masa depan yang lebih bersih dan berkelanjutan. Gambar ini menggambarkan konsep energi hidrogen hijau yang terintegrasi dengan berbagai sektor teknologi modern, mulai dari transportasi, industri, hingga penyimpanan energi. Hidrogen: Bahan Bakar Masa Depan Hidrogen merupakan unsur paling melimpah di alam semesta dan memiliki potensi […]

    frnstudio.wordpress.com/2026/0

  6. #SodiumIonBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium

    Oct 26th 2023

    Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in #seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.

    "Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and #nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #EnvironmentallyDestructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo, where #ChildLabour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use #electrodes built from #iron and #manganese [and wood #lignin], which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.

    "Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as #GridStorage or #HomeBatteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in #ElectricVehicles."

    Read more:
    economist.com/leaders/2023/10/

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/7x6JX

    #SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIon #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse #NoLithiumMining #NoMining

  7. Fast-charging #SodiumIon battery uses anodes made from trees

    By C.C. Weiss
    June 09, 2024

    "A month after #NatronEnergy began its first-of-kind sodium-ion battery mass production, Swedish sodium-ion developer #Altris has identified a means of making the LithiumFree batteries even more sustainable. Together with partner #StoraEnso, it's adapting tree pulp-sourced carbon toward use as an anode material.

    "A byproduct of wood pulp manufacturing, #lignin has long been investigated for possible use as a more sustainable electrode material. Finnish renewable materials company Stora Enso made headlines in 2022 when it partnered up with Swedish battery manufacturer #Northvolt toward using its proprietary #Lignode material in lithium-ion battery anodes. Stora Enso describes Lignode as a hard carbon material refined from lignin.

    "By teaming with Altris, Stora Enso looks to go even more sustainable while further localizing the European battery supply chain. As we looked at when Natron Energy kicked off production a few weeks ago, sodium-ion batteries eliminate the need for rare minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel, relying on abundant sodium that can be sourced locally without harmful #mining. "

    Read more:
    newatlas.com/energy/wood-based

    #SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIonBatteries #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse

  8. 3) The 👆is an important counterpoint to the #Trump administration who would have us believe in the unaffordability of #renewables and the absence of #BatteryTech for #EnergyStorage

    Could it be that that they are compromised by promises made to the #Petrogarchy ??? There was the matter of a rather overt solicitation last year 👇

    politico.com/news/2024/05/09/t

    #BillMcKibben #SunDay #CleanEnergy #ClimateChange #CleanTech #SolarPower #GreenTech #USPol