The third edition of the Just Transition Platform organised by the European Commission’s Directorates-General for Regional Policy and Energy will take place online from Monday, April 26, 14:00 to Thursday, April 29, 15:00 (CET). All stakeholders from EU coal , carbon and fossil fuel-intensive regions are invited to join the event that will be opened […]
With the ever-increasing demand of EVs and other sorts of battery applications, the need to assure access to raw materials and its processing becomes increasingly important. EIT InnoEnergy has identified that EU’s upstream raw material supply and processing capacity needs to accelerate if we compare to the actual development. And even though several plans for
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Only a few years ago, Europe was basically non present in the battery value chain. Today, Europe has made dramatic progress in establishing a credible battery value chain following the launch of the European Battery Alliance in October 2017, as we have been regularly reporting on this website. We have recently noticed that the model
Following the 5th high-level ministerial meeting of the European Battery Alliance that took place on March 12th, Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič tasked EIT InnoEnergy to launch the EBA Academy. Addressing the emerging skills gap has been indeed identified as critical to success since it is estimated that Europe will need approximately 800.000 qualified workers to
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Phi4tech, together with the regional President of Extremadura and the General Secretary for Industry in Spain, has formally announced in a press conference – on the 24th of March, 2021 – the first integrated battery project in Southern Europe, which includes in the same region, a lithium extraction and refining project – Lithium Iberia -,
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Welcome to the online workshop “Digitalisation of batteries for smart energy and transport systems” organised by Batteries Europe taking place on 05 May 2021. This is the first event of a series of online workshops that will focus on the cross-cutting topics tackled by the Batteries Europe Task Forces. The event is organised in collaboration
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Welcome to the Virtual Battery Exhibition 2021 organised by VDMA Battery Production and FVA GmbH. Now in its second edition, the virtual conference & exhibition will take place from 27th April to 3rd May, 2021. Electric mobility and battery production are taking off worldwide, and this is just the beginning. To be able to make the
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Shenzhen Senior Technology Material announces today its plan to invest 250 million euros until 2025 to establish a production facility at Svista industrial estate in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The facility will be one of Europe’s largest factories of its kind and will supply Northvolt with separator film for lithium-ion batteries. Shenzhen Senior Technology Material Co., is
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Organised by Battery Cluster Portugal, the Battery Summit invites everyone to discuss how batteries will promote competitive sustainability and are necessary for green transport, clean energy and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Join the Battery Summit on 22-23 March 2021 in a virtual conference that will: Showcase industrial RTD+I initiatives along the battery value-chain
This week, EIT InnoEnergy announced its support of Euro Manganese’s Czech-based Chvaletice Manganese Project, helping fulfil ambitions to create a competitive and sustainable battery cell manufacturing value chain in Europe. In addition to an initial investment of €250k, EIT InnoEnergy will help Euro Manganese secure financing for full-scale commercial development up to €362m for the