Context :
RIL
arm to buy UK’s Faradion for Rs 1K cr
/ Financial Express / 01 Jan 2022
Extract :
Reliance New Energy Solar (RNESL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance
Industries (RIL),
on Friday said it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Faradion, an Oxford, UK-based sodium ion battery manufacturer for an enterprise value of
£100 million or Rs 1,000 crore.
RNESL will additionally spend £25
million as growth capital for commercial rollout
of batteries in India, the company said in a statement.
The announcement is in line with RIL’s Rs 75,000 crore
investment planned in clean energy space to achieve net carbon neutrality by
2035.
The plan entails an investment of Rs 60,000 core in four giga factories which
will manufacture and fully integrate all the critical components for the
business; and another Rs
15,000 crore in building and developing the value chain, partnerships
and future technologies.
RIL plans to use Faradion’s sodium-ion battery technology at its
proposed energy storage giga-factory
as part of the Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Complex project in Jamnagar,
Gujarat.
The sodium-ion
technology is expected to provide significant advantages compared with
lithium-ion and lead acid batteries as it is
not dependent on cobalt, lithium, copper or graphite.
It is claimed to be the sixth most
abundant element on the planet.
“The batteries have low cost of ownership and are already
comparable to lead-acid with potential for further reductions
in costs,” the company said.
Mukesh Ambani,
chairman of Reliance Industries, said, “We will work with Faradion management and
accelerate its plans to commercialise the technology through
building integrated and end-to-end giga scale manufacturing in India.”
Since August this year, through its
renewable arm RIL has invested in five
global firms to grow its clean energy portfolio.
In
August the company announced;
# An
investment of $50 million in US-based Ambri
Inc
In
October ;
# German “ green solar wafers ” technology company NexWafe GmbH;
# A pact
with Danish company Stiesdal A/S
for hydrogen
electrolyser;
# Acquisition
of 100% stake in solar
panel manufacturer
REC Solar Holdings AS
# An
acquisition of 40% stake in Sterling
& Wilson Power.
My Take :
[ A ] ………… Local Research on Sodium-ion Battery
Congratulations,
Shri GopuKumarji…………………………………….. [ 30 Jan 2019 ]
Extract:
Dear Shri
GopuKumarji,
Just came
across the following news report in today’s Business Line :
Govt-owned electrochemical lab cracks sodium-ion cell tech
It reads :
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CECRI…..will
be ready to license technology for the mass production of Sodium Ion cells, if
things go as planned .
The production could be a big leap
to Electric mobility because sodium-ion batteries cost a tenth of the conventional lithium ion batteries
Sodium, available in
abundance in sea water, has long been a preferred option, but the metal is also
tricky to handle due to its reactive nature.
The difficulty has not
deterred scientists at CECRI
from trying, who have already developed
the technology for making lithium-ion cells
and have offered to it to the
industry.
Congratulations to your entire team on this
“ game changing “ breakthrough – especially considering that ,
# India has no deposits of Lithium and
must spend heavily to import it from Bolivia-China etc
# Extracting Sodium from our abundant
supply of sea water is not an issue
[ B ] ……………. Generating Green Hydrogen from water
Ray,
a drop of golden Sun………………………………….. [ 18 Feb 2019 ]
Extract :
He and his
team has come up with a contrivance that marries solar
panels to electrolysis equipment so as to
produce hydrogen using a Proton Exchange Membrane in water electrolysis
For full
report , read :
With a little help from the Sun
Dr Vasudevan
may have “ a long way to run “ till
we see solar panels mounted on
roof-tops of cars, producing
hydrogen – and electricity - from “ Water Electrolysis Contrivance “ located
under the hood , and driving small electric motors
Without doubt,
considering that skies are filled with
Sunlight and abundant water on earth contains 11.19 % hydrogen !
Dr Vasudevan adds :
“Water electrolysis by PEM concept
is the most suited process for onsite production of
hydrogen, because of its simplicity of operation and maintenance, compactness,
absence of corrosive liquids and purity of hydrogen
The device costs
around ₹1 lakh, but that is because the anode
and cathode are made of iridium and platinum respectively.
Now CECRI is trying
out different materials for the electrodes to make it less expensive. The electricity, of course, is free once the
cost of the solar panels is paid for. “
Dear
Shri Nitin Gadkariji,
If we fail to encourage our brilliant Scientists ( through public
recognition and handsome grants for commercializing their innovations ), then
we have a bleak future !
I urge you to send a congratulatory email to Dr Subramanyan , at :
[ C ] Solar Panels 1,000 times powerful than current / Grid Scale
Storage Batteries
1000
TIMES MORE POWERFUL SOLAR PV PANELS ……………..
[ 08 Sept 2021 ]
Extract :
E Mail sent to : akash.bhatnagar@physik.uni-halle.de
Dear Akash,
A few days back, I came across a news report re your
research on PV Solar Panels which produced 1,000
times more current
I thought (
if quickly commercialized ), that invention could enable every house (
including small huts ) to generate its own / full requirement of power, by
mounting such panels on their Roof Tops / Terraces
That could
enable the World to shut down ALL fossil-fuel based power-plants and help avoid
climate catastrophe through global warming
Without
waiting to check-out with you, I sent out following e-mail to all of India’s
Cabinet Ministers :
YOUR INVENTION IS
THE SOLUTION. HERE IS HOW :
Your tech (
being 1,000 times more productive ), will produce 5,000
Kwp !
Or, just 5 sq
ft of terrace, can produce 50 Kwp ( enough for most Concrete / Stone buildings, of
which, India could have 50 million , as per my estimate )
That means ( at a conservative estimate ),these 50
million buildings can generate 250
GW of Roof-top Solar !
As against India’s target of generating 45 GW of Roof-top Solar by next year
( 2022 ), we have so far managed only 5 GW !
Ø Through your willingness to transfer your technology to several Indian firms
manufacturing PV Solar Panels
I request that you make such an
offer to ,
ANY OTHER ISSUE ?
day-time power generation into local GRID
No Reverse Metering . Total
independence
Ø This would require a reasonably-sized STORAGE BATTERY that can store
power for a long
period and can be
Ø Fortunately, FORM ENERGY ( Boston / USA ) claim to have developed
an IRON-AIR battery that can store
# Our first commercial product using our iron-air technology is optimized
to store electricity for 100 hours at
power plants
modules is filled with a
the electrolyte used in AA
Inside of
the
cells, which include iron electrodes and air electrodes, the parts of the
battery that enable the
electricity
utility-scale energy needs
Ø LOW-COST > Stores energy at less than 1/10th the cost of lithium-
ion battery technology.
Ø RELIABLE > Delivers 100+ hour duration required to make wind,
water, and solar reliable,
world.
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With regards,
Hemen parekh
/ hcp@RecruitGuru.com /
01 Jan 2022
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A new design
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Huge demand for CECRI’s lithium-ion cells
EV juice from Alu-Air Battery ? …………………………………
[ 16 Jan 2018 ]
Ashok Leyland is not waiting !..............................
[ 17 Jan 2018 ]
Holy Grail for Electric Vehicles ………………………………….
[ 17 Feb 2018 ]
Ashok Leyland : On the double…………………………………
[ 01 April 2018 ]
Contacts :
rajkumar.singh19@sansad.nic.in
akash.bhatnagar@physik.uni-halle.de