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Sage Geosystems Raises Over $97 Million To Deploy World’s First Commercial Pressure Geothermal Power Generation Facility

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Ormat Technologies and Carbon Direct Capital co-lead Series B financing, which will support the development of Sage’s first next-generation geothermal power generation project. Sage Geosystems, the company pioneering Pressure Geothermal, closed over $97 million in Series B funding to advance its geothermal power generation and energy storage solutions, including its … [continued]

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Imported Materials Are Manageable, Imported Energy Reprices Economies

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Europe’s gas crisis in 2022 is often described as a supply shock driven by geopolitics, but that framing misses the core lesson. The crisis was not caused by import dependence in general, nor by shortages of industrial feedstocks. It was caused by reliance on an imported energy carrier that sat … [continued]

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Maxell Develops All-Solid-State Battery Power Module Compatible with ER Battery Size

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Reduce battery replacement frequency, contributing to improved maintainability and reduced environmental impact. Maxell, Ltd. (TOKYO: 6810) has developed an all-solid-state battery power module which matches the same size and output voltage as a lithium thionyl chloride battery (ER battery). ER batteries are widely used in industrial equipment backup systems, smart meters, and IoT … [continued]

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Rio Tinto Expands Solar Power Capacity at Kennecott

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Rio Tinto has energized a new 25-megawatt solar plant at its Kennecott copper operations in Utah, showcasing a circular critical-minerals supply chain in which tellurium produced at the site is used to manufacture the panels now powering it. Together with the 5MW solar plant completed in 2023, Kennecott now has … [continued]

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