Acclimate Weekly Debrief 9/12

Wind industry struggles, battery boom, and more.

Welcome back! This is your weekly debrief on what’s driving the clean energy transition.

In today’s edition:

  • Battery manufacturing and recycling are booming

  • More bad signals for the wind industry

  • Ascend Elements raises $542M to accelerate production of LIB materials, Polarium raises US$50 million for ESS.

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The Incredible Shrinking Energy Use of a Light Bulb. Thanks to rapid gains in efficiency, home lighting accounts for a much smaller share of the world’s power consumption than it used to (via Bloomberg)

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