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Rio Tinto signs Australia’s biggest renewable power deal as it works to repower its Gladstone operations

March 18, 2024 admin clean power, press releases, rio tinto, wind energy

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:35:36 +0000

Rio Tinto has signed Australia’s largest renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) to date to supply its Gladstone operations in Queensland, agreeing to buy the majority of electricity from Windlab’s planned 1.4GW Bungaban wind energy project. The agreement, which follows the announcement last month of a PPA for the Upper Calliope solar … [continued]

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Solar Planned to Support South African Mines

January 10, 2023 admin clean power, rio tinto, Solar energy, solar power plants, South Africa

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:52:04 +0000

South African and Australian miners are realising the benefits of using renewable energy to power their mines. It not only reduces their carbon footprint, but also their costs. “The shift is all the more attractive for miners in South Africa, where power cuts have reached record levels as state power utility Eskom struggles to meet […]

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Caterpillar Makes One Gigantic Electric Truck To Rule Them All

December 1, 2022 admin battery electric truck, bhp, biden administration, caterpillar, caterpillar electric truck, charging stations, charin, charin e.v, clean tech, clean transport, electric truck, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, interoperability, Mining, mining taskforce, rio tinto, solid-state batteries, usa, vale

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:00:08 +0000

The new 793 electric truck from Caterpillar is just the tip of the iceberg as the global mining industry pivots into electrification and interoperability.

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Tiny Mass. Startup Cooks Up Big, Green Hydrogen Plan

June 27, 2022 admin Amazon, artificial leaf, clean power, cleantech news, cosan, electric hydrogen, Energy, equinor, green hydrogen, honeywell, hydrogen, Massachusetts, mitsubishi heavy industries, renewable energy, rio tinto

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:05:01 +0000

This US green hydrogen startup has caught the eye of big spenders in the global clean tech finance community.

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Toys 4 Boys Mini E-Classic, Dynamic Inductive Recharging, RoboRide Robotaxi — EV News Today

June 10, 2022 admin batteries, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, fiat, hertz, Hyundai, lithium-ion batteries, mini, nano one, polestar, rio tinto, roboride, skoda, stellantis, toys 4 boys, Volkswagen, volkswagen group

Credit to Author: EV News Today| Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 03:50:32 +0000

The MINI E-CLASSIC shows us how the past can be green, exciting news for dynamic inductive recharging technology teases us about the future, as does the autonomous car-hailing RoboRide service in Seoul. That and much more EV news is available down below. Electric Cars Toys 4 Boys — Restomods & EV Upgrades “Toys 4 Boys […]

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Energy Storage News: CATL Factory In Germany & Rio Tinto’s Lithium Plant In California

October 22, 2019 admin batteries, catl, Energy Storage, GERMANY, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, rio tinto

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:00:10 +0000

Supply increases to meet demand. CATL is building its first battery factory outside China in Germany and Rio Tinto says leftover rocks from its borax mine in California may have a higher concentration of lithium that any other US location.