Wind...

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bp and EnBW successful in ScotWind offshore wind bid; potential generating capacity of 2.9GW, up to £10B of investment
18 January 2022

bp and EnBW have been awarded a lease option off the east coast of Scotland to develop a major offshore wind project to be known as Morven. The award was made in the highly competitive ScotWind leasing round, the results of which were announced by Crown Estate Scotland.

The approximately 860 km2 lease is located around 60 km off the coast of Aberdeen. The E1 lease is in an advantaged area, allowing the partners to develop it as a fixed-bottom offshore wind project with a total generating capacity of around 2.9 gigawatts (GW), sufficient to power more than three million homes.

p>The success of the bid is expected to unlock a number of investments across the country, as part of bp’s integrated energy company approach, leveraging its existing North Sea infrastructure, skills and relationships and EnBW’s experience in offshore wind. Along with the offshore wind development, these investments include significant expansion of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Scotland and green hydrogen production. Together, these represent up to £10 billion (US$13.6 bilion) of investment in support of offshore wind and Scotland’s energy transition.

As a result of the successful ScotWind bid, the partners will establish their operational center in Scotland, and bp will make Aberdeen its global operations and maintenance center of excellence for offshore wind, creating up to 120 new direct jobs. It is expected to contribute up to £40 million per year to the economy.

The offshore wind development will include investments in infrastructure, ports, harbors and shipyards, including the construction of four ships to support EnBW and bp’s offshore wind projects across the UK, subject to technical and commercial due diligence.

These new-builds will involve an investment of more than £100 million and would be expected to support 500 associated jobs. It also triggers additional investment in Forth Ports, who are creating Scotland’s largest renewable hub at the Port of Leith, supporting up to 3,000 direct and indirect jobs in the Forth Estuary net-zero corridor.

bp also intends to apply its integrated business model to use the clean power generated offshore to supply and significantly accelerate the expansion of its EV charging network in Scotland to around 4,000 public chargers by 2030.

bp and EnBW are also jointly developing up to 3GW of offshore wind in the Irish Sea—the Morgan and Mona projects—in lease areas for development awarded in the UK’s Round 4 leasing round.

bp’s strategy includes plans to increase low-carbon investment to around $5 billion a year by 2030. Rapidly growing its renewables business is core to bp’s strategy—by 2030 it aims to have developed 50GW of net renewable generating capacity. bp currently has a global renewables development pipeline totaling 23GW net, and its share of this award will add to this."

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/01/20220118-bp.html

Wind generation that makes sense!

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Speaking of air...

Efficient recovery of lithium from spent LiFePO4 batteries via air oxidation–water leaching at room temperature
18 January 2022

Researchers in China report using air oxidation–water leaching to recover lithium selectively from spent LiFePO4 (LFP) material, in which the high leaching efficiency of lithium and the good separation effect of lithium and iron were achieved simultaneously. An open-access paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

The use of LFP batteries in EVs is increasing rapidly, especially in China, due to low-cost, safety, excellent thermal stability and superior cycling performance. (Earlier post.) However, the researchers note, a huge number of end-of-life batteries will emerge due to the limited lifespan of LFP batteries (8–10 years). The toxic electrolytes, binder, and other organic chemicals will result in serious environmental pollution if the spent batteries are not properly treated.

The economics of current approaches to recycling of spent LFP batteries are challenging, the researchers noted, due to low lithium recovery rate, and high reagent and wastewater treatment costs.

To address these problems in the previous works during the selective lithium recovery from the spent LFP batteries, it is significant to develop an oxidant that is cheap, green, and efficient as well to replace the existing oxidants. As the most cheap and green oxidant, air may be suitable as the oxidant to selectively extract lithium from the LFP cathode material in the water leaching process. Besides, the reduction product of air is H2O and will not introduce any impurities.

In this work, the kinetic process of air oxidation combined with water leaching was investigated, which could provide guidance for the increase of the reaction rate and leaching efficiency. Meanwhile, the parameters e.g., air flow rate, liquid-to-solid ratio, reaction temperature, time, and pH were systematically investigated. Characterization was subsequently adopted to clarify the leaching mechanism. Finally, economic viability was analyzed for the proposed recycling process of the LFP cathode material. The high leaching efficiency of lithium and the good separation effect of lithium and iron were achieved simultaneously via air oxidation–water leaching. With the merits of less reagent consumption, no secondary waste discharge and high economic profit, this work demonstrates a clean and efficient technology for the recycling of the spent LFP, conforming to the concept of green chemistry.

—Jin et al.
The researchers found that 99.3% of Li is leached into solution, while only 0.02% Fe and P are dissolved. They also prepared a new LFP cathode material with Li2CO3 obtained from the leachate and the FePO4 residue that exhibited sound electrochemical performance.

Resources

Hao Jin et al. (2022) “Facile and efficient recovery of lithium from spent LiFePO4 batteries via air oxidation–water leaching at room temperature” Green Chem., 24, 152-162 doi: 10.1039/D1GC03333F

Recycling of EV lithium batteries has been a big issue for consideration... looks like a good solution!

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bp and EnBW successful in ScotWind offshore wind bid; potential generating capacity of 2.9GW, up to £10B of investment
18 January 2022

bp and EnBW have been awarded a lease option off the east coast of Scotland to develop a major offshore wind project to be known as Morven. The award was made in the highly competitive ScotWind leasing round, the results of which were announced by Crown Estate Scotland.

The approximately 860 km2 lease is located around 60 km off the coast of Aberdeen. The E1 lease is in an advantaged area, allowing the partners to develop it as a fixed-bottom offshore wind project with a total generating capacity of around 2.9 gigawatts (GW), sufficient to power more than three million homes.

p>The success of the bid is expected to unlock a number of investments across the country, as part of bp’s integrated energy company approach, leveraging its existing North Sea infrastructure, skills and relationships and EnBW’s experience in offshore wind. Along with the offshore wind development, these investments include significant expansion of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Scotland and green hydrogen production. Together, these represent up to £10 billion (US$13.6 bilion) of investment in support of offshore wind and Scotland’s energy transition.

As a result of the successful ScotWind bid, the partners will establish their operational center in Scotland, and bp will make Aberdeen its global operations and maintenance center of excellence for offshore wind, creating up to 120 new direct jobs. It is expected to contribute up to £40 million per year to the economy.

The offshore wind development will include investments in infrastructure, ports, harbors and shipyards, including the construction of four ships to support EnBW and bp’s offshore wind projects across the UK, subject to technical and commercial due diligence.

These new-builds will involve an investment of more than £100 million and would be expected to support 500 associated jobs. It also triggers additional investment in Forth Ports, who are creating Scotland’s largest renewable hub at the Port of Leith, supporting up to 3,000 direct and indirect jobs in the Forth Estuary net-zero corridor.

bp also intends to apply its integrated business model to use the clean power generated offshore to supply and significantly accelerate the expansion of its EV charging network in Scotland to around 4,000 public chargers by 2030.

bp and EnBW are also jointly developing up to 3GW of offshore wind in the Irish Sea—the Morgan and Mona projects—in lease areas for development awarded in the UK’s Round 4 leasing round.

bp’s strategy includes plans to increase low-carbon investment to around $5 billion a year by 2030. Rapidly growing its renewables business is core to bp’s strategy—by 2030 it aims to have developed 50GW of net renewable generating capacity. bp currently has a global renewables development pipeline totaling 23GW net, and its share of this award will add to this."

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/01/20220118-bp.html

Wind generation that makes sense!

The math doesn’t make sense. Enough power for 3 million homes at what cost? There is a lot of blank spaces for unnecessary expenses

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Hopefully the actual customers don’t end up with extraordinary high costs like other European countries.

Will be interesting to watch

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off topic a wee bit, i have often wondered why they can't harness tidewater better for generation
anyone thats driven the causeway out to cayo coco or cayo santa maria has saw the bridges that they put every kilometre or so . these are huge bridges like on the saskatchewan river , to let tide in and out . seems like an ideal place under a bridge for a generator ?

[Guest]

Maybe Farmaholics absence from agriville is because he’s too busy building a wind farm.

I know he's a big fan of wind. 😂

he is busy building a huge, huge shop