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Energy Storage Project

Stellantis, Samsung SDI Announce Kokomo, Indiana, as Site for Second Gigafactory

Stellantis N.V. and Samsung SDI announced that Kokomo, Indiana, will be the site for a second battery manufacturing facility in the United States as part of the…

Offshore Wind Power

Nordex Secures Wind Turbine Orders for 2.2 Gigawatts of Wind Power in the Third Quarter of 2023

Including two additional projects from Chile and Brazil totaling around 560 MW, Nordex received orders for 365 wind turbines with a total nameplate capacity of …

Electric Vehicle Battery

Tesla Announces 4680 Battery Cell Production Breakthrough

Today, Tesla has confirmed a significant breakthrough in 4680 battery cell production at Gigafactory Texas as it produced its 20 millionth battery cell at the f…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Cybertruck Front and Rear Castings Piling up at Giga Texas

Tesla is rumored to start initial customer deliveries of the Cybertruck this month, and while it's anyone's guess whether that will actually happen, the…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Wants Gov to Deploy Infrastructure at Giga Mexico Site, Possible Holdup

Tesla and the Nuevo León state government are still negotiating for the latter to deploy infrastructure at the Gigafactory Mexico site, which could possi…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Finnish Grid and Nuclear Plant in Dispute Over Power Backup

Finland's energy authority says it will rule "as soon as possible" on a dispute between the owners of Europe's largest nuclear reactor and national grid…

Energy Storage Project

Verkor Secures More Than €2B to Launch Battery Gigafactory in France

Verkor, which in April entered a long-term commercial partnership with Renault to supply the equivalent of 12 GWh of batteries each year (earlier post), recentl…

Hydrogen Production

Gigawatt-Scale Renewable Hydrogen Hub Gets $45M Boost From Nsw Government

Plane led by Origin Energy to establish a giga-scale renewable hydrogen production plant on Koorangang Island in New South Wales, to power the surrounding Hunte…

Hydrogen Production

Nel Chooses Michigan for $400M Hydrogen Gigafactory

Norwegian hydrogen company Nel Hydrogen has chosen Plymouth Charter Township, Michigan, as the location for its new automated gigafactory.This cutting-edge faci…

Electric Vehicles

Is This the Production Tesla Cybertruck?

New Tesla Cybertrucks, rumored to be Master Candidates, the final step before production, have been spotted coming out of Gigafactory Texas.For the past month, …

Wind Farm

Japan's Mitsui, Canada's Northland to Build 1 GW Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan

Japan's Mitsui & Co (8031.T) said on Friday it had finalised a plan with Canada's Northland Power Inc (NPI.TO) to build a 1 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind …

Carbon Emissions

Upgrading Iron and Steel Plants Could Save Equivalent of Two Years of Global Carbon Emissions

Upgrading, or retrofitting, the world's iron and steel processing plants early could reduce carbon emissions by up to 70 gigatonnes by 2050, roughly equival…

Electric Vehicles

Gotion High-Tech and Inobat to Establish a 20 Gwh Battery Plant in Europe to Supply VW EVs

Weeks after battery developer Gotion-High Tech acquired a 25% stake in startup InoBat, the two companies have signed an agreement to erect a gigafactory in Euro…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

China's Huge Coal Plant Building Has Weird Climate Logic: Russell

China is building two-thirds of the coal-fired electricity generation capacity currently under construction globally, and this may not be as disastrous for the …

Electric Vehicles

AISIN to Invest $3.4b Over Next Three Years in BEV and Intelligence Products; Move to Gigacasting

Japan-based global automotive supplier AISIN said that it will invest ¥500 billion (US$3.4 billion) over the next three years to ramp up its product offerin…