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Battery Tech
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LANSING, Mich. — LG Energy Solution switched on production this week at its all-new battery plant in Lansing, Michigan, a 226-acre site that took more than $2 billion to build and that the company now expects to run at a pace of over 35…
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Battery Tech
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Utility-scale battery storage in the United States has crossed a quiet milestone. Operators pushed national capacity to nearly 52 gigawatts (GW) by the end of June, and the pace is not slowing down. According to the U.S. Energy Information…
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Battery Tech
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Samsung SDI Buys Out GM's Stake in Indiana Plant as Korea's Battery Trio Pivots Factories to Energy Storage The three Korean battery makers that built North America's electric-vehicle plants are quietly unwinding their joint ventures with…
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Battery Tech
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Inner Mongolia plugged a 1 GW/4 GWh battery plant into its grid, giving the Battery Tech sector its first look at stability services at this scale, on August 3, and the project is not just big. The DongSu station, built by Wanbang Digital…
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Battery Tech
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Form Energy has closed a $750 million Series G round led by T. Rowe Price, money the company will pour into roughly doubling its iron-air battery factory in Weirton, West Virginia. The August 12 close pushes the startup's total equity…
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Battery Tech
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Heart Aerospace's X1 Demonstrator Completes First Flight, Marking Largest Battery-Electric Aircraft Ever Flown PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator on Wednesday, August 12, logging a 27-minute sortie that reached…
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Battery Tech
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The Solid-State Battery Summit opened in Chicago on Monday, and the room was full of companies that suddenly sound less speculative than they did a year ago. Samsung SDI is already talking about 2027 mass production with BMW as a customer…
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Battery Tech
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CATL says its new 350 Wh/kg aviation battery has passed a thermal runaway test that the company calls a world first — triggering two adjacent cells simultaneously and seeing no fire spread. The test was witnessed by Chinese aviation…
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Battery Tech
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Eolian Breaks Ground on 1.06 GWh Flint Grid BESS, PJM's Largest Battery Storage Project Construction has begun on Flint Grid, a 200-megawatt, 5.3-hour duration battery energy storage system in Jersey Township, Licking County, Ohio. At 1.06…
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Battery Tech
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The world's largest battery maker has crossed the threshold from lab to assembly line. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd (CATL) has begun mass production of its Naxtra sodium-ion battery, the first cell of its chemistry slated for…
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Battery Tech
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Sodium Chromium Cells That Absorb Heat Could Let Grid Storage Drop Its Cooling Gear Grid-scale batteries usually need a lot of cooling. Energy companies pour power into big air-conditioning units to keep lithium-ion banks from overheating…
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Battery Tech
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Long-duration energy storage startup Ore Energy has signed what it calls the largest iron-air battery agreement in Continental Europe to date, then topped it with fresh venture money. The Netherlands-based company will supply Dutch energy…