Neoen launches development of Blyth BESS
January 5, 2023: Neoen mentioned at present that it has launched development of its 200MW/400MWh Blyth Battery in South Australia.
Blythe is certainly one of seven new grid-scale battery initiatives throughout the nation to be supported partially by monetary help from the Australian Renewable Power Company.
NHOA Power would be the battery storage specialist for the venture. The main points of the battery expertise haven’t been disclosed, however NHOA has developed a spread of lithium ion-based vitality storage programs.
Blyth will usually be deployed together with Neoen’s Goyder South Stage 1 wind farm to ship 70MW of renewable baseload vitality to mining group BHP. Neoen mentioned the vitality would energy BHP’s Olympic Dam operations in South Australia.
The development interval will take between 12 and 16 months and the battery will likely be Neoen’s fifth largest within the nation, taking Australia’s whole asset portfolio to shut to 3GW in operation or beneath development.
BASF equipped the primary ‘custom-made’ supplies for the Toyota-Panasonic firm
January 5, 2023: BASF delivers the primary batch of custom-made nickel-cobalt manganese cathode lively supplies (CAM) for prime efficiency EV battery cells produced by the Toyota-Panasonic three way partnership Prime Planet Power & Options (PPES).
BASF mentioned on December 19 that its majority-owned BASF firm Toda Battery Supplies produces CAM at its Onoda calcination plant in Japan. Work to increase Onoda’s cell manufacturing capability to 45GWh is ongoing and extra capability will come on-line within the second half of 2024.
Toyota has a majority 51% stake in PPES, which started operations in April 2020 to provide automotive prismatic batteries.
Forster has been appointed chairman of StoreDot
January 5, 2023: Carl-Peter Forster has been appointed chairman of fast-charging EV battery tech agency StoreDot, the corporate introduced on January 4.
Forster is a senior adviser and board member of a number of automobile corporations and is a former CEO of Tata Motors and president of Normal Motors in Europe.
StoreDot mentioned on December 6 that it goals to have ‘100-in-5’ fast-charging lithium ion cells – claimed to supply a driving vary of 100 miles inside 5 minutes of charging. -charge – prepared for mass manufacturing in 2024.
Firm CEO Doron Myersdorf mentioned: “Enhancing our automotive bench energy is extraordinarily vital as we search to construct on our OEM strategic partnerships and encourage extra automotive producers to independently assess our ‘100- in-5’ XFC cells and incorporate them into their electrical automobiles.”
Giuliani joins Daylight’s govt crew
January 5, 2023: Gianpaolo Giuliani has joined Daylight Group as business vitality storage programs govt director, the corporate introduced in a LinkedIn put up on December 29.
Giuliani, a former world gross sales director of vitality storage for GE, will lead a crew centered on product administration for Daylight’s ESS excessive voltage portfolio and enterprise growth for world markets.
He brings greater than 15 years of expertise in vitality, administration and renewable hybrid technology and, in 2014, specialised in renewables and vitality storage.
Daylight introduced on December 8 that it had agreed to a deal to amass a controlling stake in Germany-based batteries Triathlon Holding, in a transfer Daylight mentioned would create a lead and lithium powerhouse to extend world gross sales of corporations in present and new markets.
