Journalist Llewellyn King, who organized the briefing, will serve as moderator. USEA Acting Executive Director Sheila Hollis will open the briefing. The briefing will feature a panel of energy-wise reporters questioning a panel of experts on batteries and the utility supply chain. Eastern Time to examine the constraints that the battery supply chain may bring to the utility industry and what are the alternatives. The United States Energy Association has scheduled another of its virtual press briefings for Friday, April 22, at 11 a.m. Copper is more widely sourced, but Chile is the largest producer.Īlready, electrification has been slowed in the car industry by the chip shortage. Nickel is sourced in Indonesia, the Philippines and Russia. Sixty percent of the cobalt in today’s batteries comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lithium is in such demand that the price has risen nearly 500 percent in one year, and Elon Musk has hinted at getting into lithium mining. While electrification of everything is cheered everywhere, there appears to be danger in depending on the lithium-ion battery as none of the principal components are sourced in the United States. This surge forward, driven by environmental concerns and the desire to go green quickly, faces one ominous hurdle: the lithium-ion battery and its precarious supply chain. The electric future is at hand, or is it? Likewise, batteries are the storage favored by utilities and microgrids.
New York State legislators have just agreed a budget that includes committing the state to 100 percent electric school buses by 2035. Utilities are gearing up for a surge in electric vehicles and huge fleets, like those of Amazon and UPS.
Llewellyn KingWASHINGTON, DC, USA, Ap/ / - Electrification is the megatrend for the energy sector.
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