Last week some small but important steps for more battery materials produced in Europe have been announced. On November 13, the EU Council and Parliament reached a deal on the proposed regulation establishing a framework to ensure a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials, the so called Critical Raw Materials Act. The proposal […]
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As Europe is dependent on importing more than 80% of the necessary battery materials, building up a certain share of domestic production within the EU is critical. Not only this increases the security of supply, but it also creates opportunities to build up more integrated value chains with potentially lower domestic production costs and greater
We are happy to communicate that Infinity Lithium, one of the projects included in the Business Investment Platform, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Korean Group LG for the negotiation of a binding off-take agreement of Lithium Hydroxide (LiOH) produced in their future extraction and refining platform in Cáceres, Spain. The contract
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Vice-President of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič was today in Madrid, Spain to participate at the signature of the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to implement the EBA Academy, a public-private partnership on learning services by industry for industry covering the entire battery value chain recently launched by EIT InnoEnergy. Spain’s Secretary General for Industry
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Last week, the Spanish government approved the energy storage strategy, targeting some 20 GW of storage capacity in 2030 and reaching 30 GW by 2050 from today’s 8.3 GW. In this storage strategy, Spain quantified its storage needs in line with its decarbonisation targets established in the national energy and climate plan (NECP), which sets
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Major Spanish industrial companies announced yesterday the creation of the Battchain consortium formed to respond to increasing demand for batteries. Battchain aims to accelerate Europe’s green economic recovery by expanding Spain’s battery value chain across raw materials extracting through battery recycling. The consortium will seek investment of €1.2 billion to deploy its industrial projects mainly
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The first EIT InnoEnergy Iberian Summit on Batteries will showcase and discuss new, innovative industrial and business initiatives from Spain and Portugal along the battery value chain, under the framework of the European Battery Alliance – EBA250. The battery industry will be central to the European economy. Under the umbrella of the European Battery Alliance, the Iberian Battery Summit aims at
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According to the European Commission, the EU has a set target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% of 1990 levels by 2030. If achieved, this would result in a reduction of emission levels to less than 3400 Mt of CO2 equivalent from 1990 levels of 5665 Mt of CO2 equivalent. One of
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