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SolarEdge, Kokam open 2GWh cell plant in South Korea

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SolarEdge Technologies and SolarEdge’s subsidiary, Kokam Limited Company, a provider of lithium-ion batteries and integrated energy storage solutions, announced the opening of “Sella 2”, a two gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery cell manufacturing facility. The opening of Sella 2 is an important milestone for SolarEdge.

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Tokyo Electric Power Licenses Aker Wade to Build Level III Fast Chargers

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Aker Wade Power Technologies has entered into a licensing agreement with Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to manufacture and market Level III DC fast chargers for electric vehicles. Since 2006 it has tested more than 300 battery powered cars in the greater Tokyo area. Source: TEPCO. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Algenol Partners With Valero Services on Algae to Ethanol

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and algae-to-ethanol company, and Valero Services, Inc., is a privately owned company founded in 2006. Algenol Biofuels Inc., Algenol Biofuels Inc. Earlier post.). Algenol also announced a partnership with The Linde Group to develop CO 2 capture and management technologies to increase biofuel production from algae.

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China BAK to Supply Li-ion Batteries for Electric Bus Project in China

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Ltd, an affiliated company of First Automobile Group Co., In December 2006, its new subsidiary, BAK International (Tianjin) Limited, was incorporated to focus on the R&D, manufacturing and distribution of lithium-phosphate cells. (In China BAK Battery, Inc.,

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Sonangol, Maersk Oil and partners strike oil with their first deepwater pre-salt well offshore Angola

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In November 2006, it acquired a 50% interest and operatorship of Blocks 8 and 23 with Svenska Petroleum Exploration (30%) and Sonangol (20%). Maersk Oil is an international oil and gas company with operated production of about 650,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day offshore Denmark, UK and Qatar, as well as onshore Kazakhstan and Algeria.

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GM Brazil to Invest R$2B in Expansion and New Line of Chevrolet Small Cars

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The investment is the largest made by the company in its 84 years in Brazil. In 2005 and 2006, it received investments of about US$480 million, resulting in the launch of the Chevrolet Prism in October 2006 and the expansion of its production capacity to 230,000 vehicles per year. This will be the second expansion to Gravataí.

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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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We have gathered statistical information on energy and energy demand drivers from all different resources, such as the China Environment Yearbook , the Transportation Yearbook , the Power Yearbook , the Iron and Steel Yearbook , the Cement Almanac , statistics of oil companies and power companies.