Statkraft May Supply Renewable Energy to Plants of FREYR Battery in Norway Updated On Thu, May 26th, 2022 by Saurenergy Europe’s largest renewable energy player – Statkraft – has signed a binding ‘Heads of Terms’ with FREYR Battery with an aim of converting it into a long-term physical supply agreement, with the ambition to secure a long-term supply of renewable power for FREYR’s planned battery cell production project in Mo i Rana city of Norway. […] Read more
Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom successfully operate 5G site with hybrid RE Updated On Wed, May 25th, 2022 by Saurenergy Ericsson has announced a successful trial on Germany’s telecom player Deutsche Telekom‘s 5G-enabled network and has said that this could pave the way for major advances in sustainable mobile site operations with renewable energy while optimizing power supply and demand. A major goal of the Ericsson-DT partnership is to identify and validate energy efficiency and […] Read more
Shell and Inaccess to deploy Unity Platform in 100MW Hybrid Project Updated On Wed, May 25th, 2022 by Saurenergy As part of its global push in the renewable energy space, global energy firm Shell has developed a hybrid asset in the Netherlands in collaboration with Inaccess that would help in monitoring and controlling the renewable energy project. The Shell-developed renewable power plant consists of a 50MW photovoltaic power plant and a 50MW wind farm. […] Read more
EV Sales Touch New World Record But Raw Materials Could Be Spoiler Updated On Tue, May 24th, 2022 by Saurenergy The sale of electric vehicles (EV) across the world more than doubled this year against 6.6 million last year, accounting for one in 10 new cars sold, according to the International Energy Agency‘s annual report published on May 23. However, the report mentioned that the grey areas like price and supply of critical minerals could […] Read more
Tesla Nears Setting-up Electric Vehicle & Battery Factory in Indonesia Updated On Tue, May 24th, 2022 by Saurenergy Leading EV seller Tesla is close to inking a pact that will allow the US-based company to set up an electric vehicle factory in Indonesia. The facility may come up in Central Java’s Industrial complex and it may also host manufacturing of EV batteries. As per reports, the construction could start by the end of […] Read more
Govt Calls EV Manufacturers To Explain Recent EV fires Updated On Mon, May 23rd, 2022 by Saurenergy The Centre for Fire, Explosive and Environment Safety (CFEES), DRDO‘s lab, has blamed the EV manufacturing companies for the recent spate of fires. The report has found that recent electric scooter fires were caused by defects in their batteries, including in the designs of the battery packs and modules. Published on May 23, the report […] Read more
RWE Issues €2 billion Green bond For Renewable Play Updated On Thu, May 19th, 2022 by Saurenergy In a major announcement, RWE has said that it has successfully issued a green bond with a total volume of €2 billion. The bond was issued in two tranches of €1 billion each. The maturities of the two will take place in 2026 and 2030. RWE has said that for the first tranche, the yield-to-maturity […] Read more
Skoda Auto Begins Production of MEB Battery Systems Updated On Thu, May 19th, 2022 by Saurenergy Skoda Auto has announced that it has begun the manufacturing of battery systems for all electric vehicles based on the Modular Electrification Toolkit (MEB) in Mlada Boleslav. This is the only production facility of Skoda for MEB battery systems in Europe outside Germany. As per the official announcement, around 250 employees will soon be assembling […] Read more
Gallium Nitride Makes Progress As A Substitute To Elevated Lithium Prices Updated On Wed, May 18th, 2022 by Saurenergy Since Lithium has become far too dear to afford, Gallium Nitride is being considered by many as a substitute. It not only offers higher energy density but also saves on weight. Tesla CEO Elon Musk will probably be pondering the question, as even as traded lithium carbonate prices climbed 413 percent between January and December […] Read more
