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Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

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Norwegian startup Blastr Green Steel is planning to establish a green steel plant with an integrated hydrogen production facility in Inkoo, Finland. Blastr’s project—the green steel plant together with the integrated hydrogen facility—will be among the largest industrial investments in Finland. —Hans Fredrik Wittusen.

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Fortum, BASF, and Nornickel sign cooperation agreement on Li-ion battery recycling

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Fortum, BASF, and Nornickel have signed a letter of intent to plan a Li-ion battery recycling cluster in Harjavalta, Finland, serving the electric vehicle market. This would enable a successful “closed loop” cycle to re-use the critical metals present in used batteries. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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Vanadium Recovery Project targeting significant increase in vanadium production in Europe with low emissions

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The VRP won’t have any waste streams and will set a new precedent for circular economy practices in metals processing. Vanadium is a critical raw material according to the European Commission and features superior energy density compared to other battery materials. The Vanadium Recovery Project (VRP) is targeting a 1.5

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. These initiatives have largely focused on renewable electric power generation, distribution, and storage. What if, rather than storing electricity, a “battery” could store heat instead?

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Neste piloting its first EV charging service with Niemi Services; aims to launch in Finland in 2021

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Neste is piloting its first electric vehicle charging service targeted to logistics companies in Finland. at their site in the Konala area in Helsinki, Finland. The pilot project supports Neste’s and Niemi’s climate strategies and helps Niemi, the leading moving and logistics company in Finland, to reduce its climate emissions.

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More than 50 percent of MoUs signed in Vibrant Gujarat are green | Autocar Professional

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Semiconductors, green hydrogen, renewable energy, electronics, MSMEs, and electric mobility are some of the focus areas for the summit. We are constructing the world’s largest Renewable Energy Park at Khavda and investing Rs 2 lakh crore in Gujarat. This will lead to 1.7 times more production and 2.7 times more exports this year.

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