Energy Storage

Countries are increasingly prioritising domestic energy resources as they seek to reduce their reliance on imported fuels in response to what the International Energy Agency (IEA)  is describing as... 

TSX-V-listed Giyani Metals has reported positive definitive feasibility study (DFS) results for its 100%-owned K.Hill battery-grade manganese project in Botswana. Giyani notes that highlights from... 

By Steven Santini, Vice President for Secure Power, SSA at Schneider Electric The advantages of edge computing are well-documented, clear and tangible.  Many industries today benefit from its... 

Chilean copper miner SQM reported a sharp increase in first-quarter profit and raised its lithium sales forecast, betting that robust demand from battery storage systems will keep the market... 

TSX-V-listed American Lithium Corporation has been accepted as a member of the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC), which is a US Department of Defense collaborative initiative established to... 

The utility is procuring a transaction adviser to finalise the business case, conduct feasibility studies and secure a private developer for the build phase.  

Power utility Eskom and and NYSE-listed grid-scale energy storage solutions provider Energy Vault have signed a strategic development agreement to deploy long-duration gravity energy storage... 

Australia-based lithium producer Elevra Lithium has secured lithium-focused exploration and development company Atlantic Lithium’s consent to sell all of Elevra’s rights and interests relating to... 

A publicly available dataset reveals wide disparities in grid reliability across South Africa’s municipalities — with the average power outage lasting under 2 hours in some areas and exceeding 24... 

Sungrow Southern Africa is the regional office of Sungrow Power Supply, supporting the delivery of advanced solar and energy storage solutions across the Southern African market. 

Giyani has reported successful interim results from Phase 2 of Charge CCCV’s Digital DNA Supply Chain Qualification Program for high-purity manganese oxide produced at the Johannesburg... 

Africa-focused lithium exploration and development company Atlantic Lithium has entered into a binding scheme implementation deed with Chinese company Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, which intends to... 

US-based lithium and specialty chemicals producer Albemarle Corporation has reported a 148% year-on-year increase in its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation... 

Ener-G-Africa (EGA) has commissioned its solar panel manufacturing facility in Paarl, in the Western Cape. The plant has a nameplate assembly capacity of up to 150 MW a year on a three-shift... 

China National Building Materials South Africa (CNBM SA) and Geely Auto South Africa (Geely SA) have signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement for the coordinated development of new-energy... 

Fossil fuels staged a comeback in China’s power sector last quarter, as weather variations and grid constraints slowed the growth of clean energy. Thermal power output rose 3.7% over the first... 

Research firm BMI – a Fitch Solutions Company – is revising up its average lithium price forecast for this year to $17 000/t for Mainland Chinese lithium carbonate 99.5% and $16 700/t for Mainland... 

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses electrolytic hydrogen being able to enable long-term energy storage way beyond what batteries can provide; South Africa’s manganese industry calling... 

South African independent power producer Mulilo, which announced at the recent South Africa Investment Conference that it would be investing R15-billion in new renewables and storage projects,...