How abandoned mines can become clean energy storage systems
Mining News Pro - An international team of researchers has developed a novel way to store energy by transporting sand into abandoned underground mines. The new technique, called Underground Gravity Energy Storage (UGES), proposes an effective long-term energy storage solution while also making use of now-defunct mining sites.
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Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage
Mining News Pro - A circular battery life cycle is possible. More batteries are being recycled through good policy, innovation, and corporate commitment. Public action and awareness-raising is bringing increased attention to the urgency of responsible sourcing.
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New aluminum-sulphur battery developed to lower cost of energy storage
Mining News Pro - An international team of researchers led by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new kind of battery, made entirely from abundant and inexpensive materials.
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Swedish consortium gets funding to commercialize grid-scale energy storage concept
Mining News Pro - An international consortium led by Swedish grid-scale energy storage company Mine Storage has been granted Vinnova funding to finalize the blueprint for what could be the world’s first commercial underground mine storage facility, indicating increased interest in the potential of using abandoned mines for energy storage.
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Global energy storage installation expected to be 20 times larger within a decade
Mining News Pro - A recent forecast by BloombergNEF found that global energy storage installation will reach a cumulative 358 gigawatts/1,028 gigawatt-hours by the end of 2030, more than twenty times larger than the 17 gigawatts/34 gigawatt-hours online at the end of 2020.
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Largo Resources rebrands into a vanadium energy storage play
Mining News Pro - Vanadium miner Largo Resources is rebranding to Largo Inc. to reflect its focus from being seen only as a primary vanadium miner to a fully integrated vanadium redox flow battery technology company.
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New iron-air battery aims to make multi-day, clean energy storage systems a reality
Mining News Pro - Form Energy Inc. announced the launching of its first commercial product, a rechargeable iron-air battery capable of delivering electricity for 100 hours at system costs competitive with conventional power plants and at less than 1/10th the cost of lithium-ion.
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Fortescue commissions largest integrated battery energy storage system
Mining News Pro - Iron-ore major Fortescue has contracted Perth-based Pacific Energy’s subsidiary Contract Power Australia to build Western Australia’s largest network integrated battery energy storage system (BESS).
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Eskom initiates procurement process for first large-scale battery energy storage system
Mining News Pro - Electricity utility Eskom has called for bids for the design and construction of a battery energy storage system (BESS) to be installed at the Skaapvlei substation at Vredendal, in the Western Cape, where the group’s 100 MW Sere wind farm is located.
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Zinc8’s New York energy storage project on track despite covid-19 pandemic
Mining News Pro - Canadian company Zinc8 Energy Solutions is staying its course and continues to work on a demonstration project to deploy a 100 kW/1 MWh energy storage system to a site in New York state.
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Graphene aerogel batteries promise new energy storage solution
Mining News Pro - Zen Graphene Solutions (TSXV: ZEN) and its research partner, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt, reported having received encouraging results from their battery development program taking place at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus.
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Vanadium: the energy storage metal
Mining News Agency - As the world shifts to renewables, one question remains up in the air: how will we store all this energy?
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