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US national lab commissions first prismatic battery cell line in DoE complex
A 1,400-square-foot dry room at the Grid Storage Launchpad in Richland, Washington, now gives battery researchers and industry partners a place to test sodium-ion and lithium iron phosphate chemistries at the scale where coin-cell results stop being reliable.
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Battery retrofits earn on market revenues beyond curtailed energy
When curtailment rates drive the case for co-located battery storage, developers and lenders may be building their business case around the wrong number – undervaluing storage in markets where negative electricity prices are making grid-charging the real revenue engine.
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Grenergy signs PPA for fifth phase of solar-plus-storage site in Chile
Grenergy has locked in a 12-year offtake contract for the fifth phase of its Oasis de Atacama platform in Chile, adding another power purchase agreement (PPA) to a hybrid solar-and-storage buildout that has now secured more than $1.2 billion in project financing across its first four phases.
MIT team develops room-temperature lithium process from spodumene
A low-temperature process that dissolves spodumene ore with a common industrial reagent and recovers lithium, aluminum, and silica streams in a closed loop could cut hard-rock lithium extraction costs by roughly half, say MIT researchers.
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