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The US’s largest co-located solar + battery storage project is online

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Photo: Primergy The Gemini Solar + Storage project in Nevada – the US’s largest co-located solar + battery energy storage system – is now operational. The Gemini project, which sits on federal land in Clark County, Nevada, can power approximately 10% of Nevada’s peak power demand.

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Redwood Materials May Be Worth $5 Billion Already

CleanTechnica EVs

If all goes according to plan, the funding would put the company’s valuation at nearly $5 billion ahead of the company’s plans to construct a new factory in Nevada — though it isn’t yet a done […] Battery recycling company and Tesla partner Redwood Materials is currently in discussion to raise as much as $700 million in funding.

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Redwood Materials To Launch Anode Copper Foil Production

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Earlier this month, Redwood also announced that Panasonic would begin including its copper foil that is produced from recycled materials in new battery production at Giga Nevada. […].

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Middle Ground: Going Forward With The EV Transition, But Acknowledging The Impacts of Battery Mining

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The haters and the people who stand to lose money in the transition to clean energy love to bring it up. Mining for battery materials can be a touchy subject. They normally don’t care one bit about the environmental impacts of things (or they wouldn’t support the oil and coal industries like they do). When […].

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Tesla Growth In The Next Two Years (2022–2023)

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When you are very small, growth percentages can be astronomical. Going from one in your first year to three in the next year to 30 gives growth of 200% and 900%. But after these first few years, 50% growth is considered crazy high. Tesla is now big enough that growth of 50% per year has […].

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Red Line Westlake Rail Wayside Energy Storage System: Install wayside energy storage substation (WESS) at Westlake passenger station is at-grade level on the high-speed heavy rail subway Red Line. Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Nevada: $3,000,000.

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CNBC: How Tesla’s Battery Mastermind Is Tackling Electric Vehicles’ Biggest Problem

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In a new video, CNBC details how Tesla’s battery mastermind is solving the largest problem that EVs have. The video starts out with thousands of plastic bags filled with batteries. These batteries come from EVs, phones, scooters, laptops, and other electronic devices.

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