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Construction Begins For Spain’s First Major Production Base For Lithium Battery Cells

Various energy news websites have reported that construction started in June for Spain’s first GW-scale production base for lithium battery cells. The base is located in Noblejas, a municipality in the province of Toledo and within the autonomous region of Castilla-La Mancha. The main developer of this project is Phi4Tech, a company specializing in graphene-related […]

IHS Markit: Ability of Natural Gas Infrastructure to be Converted to Carry Low-Carbon Fuels Will Enable Gas to Become a “Second Pillar” of Decarbonization Alongside Renewables

IHS Markit: Ability of Natural Gas Infrastructure to be Converted to Carry Low-Carbon Fuels Will Enable Gas to Become a “Second Pillar” of Decarbonization Alongside Renewables. Carbon reduction benefits of switching to natural gas in the near-term could support deeper decarbonization over the longer-term, acting as a “pre-build” of infrastructure needed to support emissions goals, […]

SSE, TotalEnergies to Offer Companies Shorter Renewable Power Contracts From Seagreen

Renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) are an increasingly common way for large companies to secure clean energy and meet their climate targets, but typically have durations of 10 years or more LONDON : SSE and TotalEnergies will later this year launch tenders offering corporate customers power from their Seagreen offshore wind project for five-year terms, […]

INNOVATION: Power Engineers Find New Method to Desalinate Water Using Solar Energy

UrFU scientists, together with colleagues from Iraq, have developed a hybrid technology to increase the efficiency of evaporation inside a solar distiller by means of a rotating hollow cylinder and a solar collector. Yekaterinburg : Ural Federal University (UrFU) power engineers recently developed a new desalination technology that will reduce the cost of desalination and […]

Spain: EIB Signs Agreement With Solaria to Co-Finance the Construction of Seven Photovoltaic Plants Generating 477 GWh of Renewable Energy a Year

The EU bank will provide Solaria with a total of €54 million via a project finance arrangement. The plants will be located in Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura. They will have a total capacity of 261.05 MWp and generate around 477 GWh a year, which is equivalent to the power consumption of 121 300 Spanish homes. […]