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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Porsche, Siemens Energy and partners are developing and implementing a pilot project—the “Haru Oni” project—in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (eFuels). Electrolyzers will use wind power to produce green hydrogen.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Aclara Resources, a development-stage company that focuses on heavy rare earth mineral resources, has started the continuous operation of its newly constructed pilot plant for the Penco Module near Concepcion, Chile. Chile, Brazil, US, and China, while the second patent has recently been filed and is pending approval.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

BASF and the Catholic University of the North (UCN) in Antofagasta, Chile, have signed a collaboration agreement to promote research, development and innovation in mining. The aim of this collaboration is to strengthen the cooperation between academia, students and industry experts.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Porsche is investing US$75 million in HIF Global LLC, a holding company of internationally active project developers of eFuel production facilities. Among other projects, the Santiago de Chile-based company is building the Haru Oni eFuel pilot plant in Punta Arenas (Chile). Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Water, a potential by-product, is drained off. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

The project is the companies’ third energy storage facility in Northern Chile, integrating 20MW of advanced battery-based energy storage with a 532MW thermal power plant. The project is owned by AES Gener, the second-largest power generator in the country, and Mitsubishi Corporation.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

through its subsidiary dedicated to the deployment of technologies for the energy transition, NextChem , signed today a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the production of green hydrogen via electrolysis in the United States. (EGPNA), and Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.,

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DECEMBER 21, 2024

Tesla’s Megapack grid-scale storage systems have been selected for yet another solar energy and storage project, this time set to be installed in Chile. While the manufacturer has been ramping up Megapack production since it opened, it’s eventually expected to produce around 10,000 Megapack units per year.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

IHS Markit forecasts that annual global investments in green hydrogen—hydrogen production powered by renewable sources—will exceed US$1 billion by 2023. Electrolysis production is ramping up with multiple “giga-factories” under development. Investment in electrolysis is booming around the world.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Front-Loading Net Zero report states that electricity production costs could be reduced by up to 50% by 2050 if countries and states adopt 100% renewable systems faster than currently planned. Utilities should keep repeating steps 1 - 3 until their systems run on 80 – 90% renewables.

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MARCH 12, 2018

A consortium led by South Korea’s POSCO and Samsung SDI, and including China’s Sichuan Fulin Industrial Group and Chile’s Molyment, has won a bid to build a cathode materials plant in Chile to support that country’s Li-ion batteries project. POSCO has also acquired a 4.75% stake in the mining company.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The new “Green Hydrogen Catapult” initiative will see green hydrogen industry leaders target the deployment of 25 gigawatts through 2026 of renewables-based hydrogen production, with a view to halve the current cost of hydrogen to below US$2 per kilogram. —Paddy Padmanathan, CEO of ACWA Power. ºC campaign. degrees Celsius.

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JUNE 29, 2012

million investment from the Recovery Act to expand its North Carolina lithium production facility as well as its production operations in Silver Peak, Nevada. After holding world leadership in lithium production in the early 1990s, the US now imports the majority of its lithium materials and compounds from South America.

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MAY 1, 2021

Although Chile and Peru contributed 40% of global mine supply in 2020, Roskill observed, copper production there is yet to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels. Goldman Sachs and Robert Friedland, Founder of Ivanhoe Mines, suggest prices of US$15,000/t might be seen by 2025, due to restricted supply and bullish demand growth.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Albemarle Corporation, a premier specialty chemicals company and leader in the production of lithium and lithium derivatives, has been granted approval by the Environmental Assessment Commission (CEA) of the Antofagasta Region to increase its currently authorized lithium brine extraction rate at the company's facility in the Salar de Atacama, Chile.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

This focus on interoperability and the benefit of continued bilateral research into alternative energy sources has been a part of the relationship between the Chilean navy and the United States Navy since 2010.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

ADLF), a company with exploration tenements in Chile’s prospective Atacama region, and to enter a joint venture with Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile ( Codelco ) to explore and potentially develop Agua de la Falda’s assets. Rio Tinto has agreed to purchase Pan American Silver’s stake in Agua de la Falda S.A.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Renewable and low-carbon hydrogen cannot currently compete in terms of production costs with fossil-based hydrogen, whereas hydrogen production must become fully decarbonised in order to contribute to climate neutrality goals. There is no single optimal hydrogen delivery solution across every transport scenario.

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MARCH 10, 2022

Keliber, a Finnish mining and battery chemical company that aims to start the sustainable production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide, has analyzed the CO 2 emissions generated by its future production using two studies. Keliber plans to begin production in 2024. Keliber benefits from an integrated production process.

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APRIL 21, 2022

Bolivia is lithium-rich; the USGS estimates identified lithium reserves in the country to be 21 million tons—ahead of Argentina and Chile, the other members of the “lithium triangle”. However, Bolivia is production-poor; Chile and Argentina are top global producers, but Bolivia has yet to produce the mineral in commercial quantities.

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MARCH 10, 2023

We face a time of incredible expansion in hydrogen production amid global supply chain challenges. HIF has two sites at which it anticipates possible deployment of Baker Hughes’ Mosaic DAC technology—the Texas site, and the HIF Haru Oni eFuels Facility in Chile, which began producing its first fuels in December 2022 in Magallanes.

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MARCH 13, 2023

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. This strong demand growth expectations give us confidence as we remain focused on expanding our lithium production capacity. As the company continues with lithium capacity expansion in Chile, it expects to invest approximately US$1.4 million—almost 7x the US$585.5 million (53.6%

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MAY 20, 2021

SQM, a Chilean company that is one of the world’s biggest producers of lithium, and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating to study SQM’s process for producing lithium with an eye toward better understanding sustainability challenges associated with lithium products. Image by SQM.). —Michael Wang.

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JULY 14, 2021

The team also extended the LCA beyond the production of Li 2 CO 3 and LiOH•H 2 O to include battery cathode materials as well as full automotive traction batteries to observe the effect that the lithium production pathways had on these end products. Kelly et al. —Veronica Gautier, SQM’s head of innovation. 2021.105762.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Chile is the world’s top copper producer (27% of global production) and exporter. In Chile, copper is mostly found in sulfide ores, especially in chalcopyrite (CuFeS 2 ), bornite (Cu 5 FeS 4 ) and chalcocite (Cu 2 S). In 2021 alone, Chile mined about 5.6 In 2021 alone, Chile mined about 5.6 © Juan Carlos Salas.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

Financing was announced for projects in Costa Rica, Dominica, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Tanzania, and the United States, while projects in drilling and start-of-construction phases made headway in Chile, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Montserrat, The Philippines, Rwanda, and Zambia.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Distribution of reserves (dashed circles) and world primary production (solid circles) with the main companies present on current production sites and on-going projects. Production is currently concentrated between Australia (40%), Argentina and Chile (50% between them). Source: USGS, 2017).

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APRIL 17, 2023

Higher EV penetration reduces GHG emissions from fuel use regardless of the transportation energy transition, while those from fuel production are more sensitive to energy-sector decarbonization and could reach nearly “net zero” by 2040. —Zhang et al. (a) a) Annual demand and recycling potential with or without a second use. (a)

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JULY 11, 2021

The world’s largest lithium reserves and large parts of the total production are located in the Salar de Atacama. The financing companies BASF, Daimler AG, Fairphone, and Volkswagen Group are aware of their responsibility along the entire supply chain, including their human rights due diligence for raw material sourcing and production.

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MAY 4, 2012

AES Gener and AES Energy Storage have begun commercial operation of the second energy storage project in Northern Chile, integrating 20MW of Li-ion battery-based energy storage (BESS) with a 544MW thermal power plant. AES Energy Storage worked with AES Gener throughout the design, development, and installation of the Angamos BESS.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

Representation of DIBANET processes, products and linkages. An EU-funded research project is seeking to develop new technologies that will enable the sustainable production of diesel miscible biofuels (DMB) from cellulosic biomass wastes in Europe and Latin America. Source: Carbolea. Click to enlarge. million (US$5.5

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APRIL 6, 2012

The dedicated Global Business Management for Oilfield Solutions unit (which now includes exploration, production and EOR) will be relocated to Houston, Texas, United States, led by Denise Joost. The Regional Business Management in Santiago de Chile, Chile; Houston, Texas and Ludwigshafen, Germany will remain located where they are today.

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OCTOBER 3, 2020

Currently, virtually all of the lithium used in the US is produced outside the country—most is mined in Argentina, Chile, China, and Australia. The only current domestic supply comes from the Silver Peak mine in Nevada. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 19, 2023

BYD's project in Chile is designed to produce 50,000 tons of lithium iron phosphate cathode material per year, with an estimated investment of at least $290 million. Image credit: CnEVPost) BYD received preferential prices for lithium carbonate in Chile, where it was awarded a lithium mining contract a year ago in the lithium-rich country.

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MAY 18, 2018

China-based Tianqi Lithium, a leading global supplier of lithium products, has agreed to purchase 62,556,568 A shares of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. Its lithium product range includes lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, and lithium chloride.

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JULY 6, 2022

Under the terms of the MoU, Compass Minerals would supply LGES with with a battery-grade lithium product from its lithium brine development project at its Ogden, Utah, solar evaporation facility. As outlined in the MOU, purchase pricing would be based on market price and sales volume thresholds would be dependent upon product qualifications.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

The Silver Peak mine—now owned by Albemarle —generates about 1% of the world’s annual production of lithium. Brine operations, mostly in Chile and Argentina, generate about 75% of worldwide production. The mining of lithium-containing ore, which is especially common in Australia, accounts for the rest.

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