Hindalco confirms deal with C4V for battery-grade aluminum foils

Indian aluminum supplier Hindalco Industries is reported to have signed an MoU with American battery manufacturer Charge CCCV (C4V) for the supply of coated battery foils and ... Read More

BluSmart raises $24 million in equity round to expand EV ride-hailing services

Indian EV ride-hailing and charging infra service provider BluSmart Mobility has announced a fresh round of funding worth $24 million in a fresh round of equity from exis... Read More

Extend FAME-II and bring back e-2W subsidy, says Indian panel

India's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry has recommended the government extend the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME-II) subsidy scheme by th... Read More

2023 VinFuture Prize honors solar-battery storage green energy platform

The 2023 VinFuture Grand Prize worth $3 million has been awarded to four scientists, namely Prof. Martin Andrew Green (Australia), Prof. Stanley Whittingham (United ... Read More

bp pulse claims significant progress in ultra-fast EV charging infra in UK

EV charging network bp pulse has more than double the number of ultra-fast charge points on its UK public network this year as against last year. The network claims to op... Read More

Daimler Truck announces customer fleet trials of its hydrogen-powered trucks

Daimler Truck announced it will deploy its hydrogen-powered Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Trucks for their first customer trial from next year. Companies such as Amazon, Air Products, INEOS,... Read More

Saudi Arabia's Acwa Power, Egypt seal $4 billion green hydrogen deal

Saudi Arabia's Acwa Power on Wednesday (Dec. 20) signed an agreement to develop a green hydrogen project worth more than $4 billion in Egypt. The framework agreement follows the si... Read More

Livguard makes strategic acquisition of EV battery solutions firm Emuron Technologies

Indian energy storage solutions firm Livguard has announced its strategic acquisition of Emuron Technologies, an innovator in battery swapping and battery intelligence with pr... Read More

Lhyfe Bretagne: Lhyfe launches its latest green hydrogen production site in France

Lhyfe, the global leader in green hydrogen production has inaugurated Lhyfe Bretagne -- one of the two largest green hydrogen production sites in France along with recently la... Read More

Honeywell India to focus on battery storage, GH2, open to acquisitions in energy transition says CEO

Honeywell is open to acquisitions in India's energy transition technology sector, its president for India operations, Ashish Modi, told an interview. The US company has recently re... Read More

Australia's New South Wales awards 350 MW solar, 4,000 MWh storage capacity

New South Wales in Australia has awarded long-term energy service agreements to two renewable energy projects and three energy storage projects as part of the government's Electric... Read More

Electric aviation: US regional carrier JSX buys 130 hybrid planes, option for 200 more

US regional carrier JSX has placed orders for more than 130 hybrid-electric aircraft from three manufacturers, in a move heralding the arrival of electric aviation. JSX is acquirin... Read More

Form Energy gets $30 mn from California for 100-hour capacity iron-air battery

Form Energy has received $30 million from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build a project capable of discharging energy for 100 hours.  The company will use the mone... Read More

Ambuja Cements to add 1 GW renewables capacity by FY26

India's Ambuja Cements has announced plans to invest ₹6,000 crore in renewable power projects as part of the company's plans to power 60 percent of output from green power. The inv... Read More

Topsoe's secures €94 mn from EU for 500 MW solid oxide electrolyzer factory

Danish firm Topsoe has signed a grant agreement with EU's Innovation Fund for a total of €94 million, in recognition to the company's solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC... Read More

Does the world have sufficient lithium? A review of scientific and industry discourse

In the dynamic landscape of lithium, commonly known as "White Gold," the soaring demand (driven majorly by lithium battery electric vehicles and battery storage infrastructure) pre... Read More

South Africa launches bids for 5,000 MW renewable and 615 MW battery capacity to beat power deficit

The Government of South Africa has launched bidding rounds for 5,000 MW of new power generation capacity from renewable sources and 615 MW of battery storage, as the country fights... Read More

Namibia signs for its first grid-scale battery storage project

Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower) has recently signed key EPC contracts with Shandong Electrical, Engineering & Equipment Group (SDEE) and Narada Power for the first-ev... Read More

EXCON 2023: Electric, H2 solutions ready for Indian CE, off-highway segments

At one of the largest exposition of construction machinery and off-highway vehicles in India, OEMs and technology suppliers presented a variety of battery-electric and hydroge... Read More

Lohum to build UAE’s first EV battery recycling plant

Marking its foray into the UAE market, India's leading battery recycling firm, Lohum Cleantech Pvt Ltd (Lohum) has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Energy & Infrastruct... Read More

Singapore’s Sembcorp bags 300 MW solar project from India’s NHPC

Singapore-based energy and urban development company Sembcorp Industries announced its renewables unit had bagged a 300 MW solar power project from NHPC Ltd, a hydropower company r... Read More

UK okays £2 bn for 11 green hydrogen projects, launches new funding round

The UK has announced support for 11 new green hydrogen projects at an investment of £2 billion over the next 15 years. The projects – all of which will use electrolysis and have a ... Read More

Essar marks clean energy pivot, plans 1 GW green hydrogen complex in Gujarat

India's Essar group announced plans to invest up to ₹56,000 crore in the state of Gujarat, most of it in a green hydrogen complex marking the conglomerate's pivot to green energy i... Read More

Comau, LiNa Energy innovate solid-state sodium battery manufacturing process

Automation solutions company Comau has joined forces with battery manufacturer LiNa Energy to design an innovative and scalable manufacturing solution for solid-state sod... Read More

US-India Energy Storage Task Force launched: Aims to boost energy storage adoption

India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) on Wednesday (Dec. 13) held a launch meeting of the US-India Energy Storage Taskforce (ESTF) to elevate meaningful dialogue and advance the dev... Read More

COP28: Countries agree on deal called 'the beginning of the end of fossil fuels'

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed on Wednesday with countries agreeing to phase down consumption of oil and coal, in a deal the UN said signaled the "begi... Read More

KPIT develops sodium-ion battery tech for sustainable mobility

Automotive software integrator KPIT Technologies has unveiled its sodium (Na)-ion battery technology for e-mobility applications in India, especially for electric two and... Read More

An overview of India's lithium deposits and their geological survey status report

India has identified a game-changer for its clean energy transition with the discovery of lithium deposits in Jammu & Kashmir as well as in Chhattisgarh. This not onl... Read More

Hindalco to invest INR 800 crore for a new battery foil manufacturing plant in Odisha

Hindalco Industries Ltd. (Hindalco), the metal flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, has announced that it will set up a battery foil manufacturing plant near Samba... Read More

Fourth Power secures $19 million for scaling its thermal energy storage solutions

Thermal battery energy storage Startup, Fourth Power has secured $19 million in a series A funding round to scale its thermal battery storage technology. The latest investment... Read More