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UK gives green light to large scale lithium plant

STORY: Lithium - an essential component of electric car batteries - could soon be refined in the UK.This computer generated video shows a plan for Britain's first large-scale lithium refinery in North East England.The project, run by Green Lithium, claims to have the potential to power the electric revolution, and reduce the dependence UK and European carmakers have on China and East Asia where 89% of the world’s lithium is currently refined."On-shoring that refining to the UK means that we've got a huge opportunity to decarbonise the process..."Sean Sargent is the CEO of Green Lithium and outlined some of the firms big ambitions:"We're optimistic that when we start operating it will be at a quarter of the carbon dioxide production of a benchmark refinery that's producing the same material in China today. So straight away we start with a huge dividend in carbon reduction, but we're also producing our chemicals sustainably."So how will that sustainability be achieved?Green Lithium says it plans to use low energy processes, renewable electricity, hydrogen gas, and carbon capture technology.It claims by doing so, its plant will have an 80% lower carbon footprint than traditional refineries."The fact that we're building it in Teeside, well, we've got access to carbon capture, that enables blue hydrogen and ultimately, several developers are looking at green hydrogen production on the site. Plus great access to renewable, low carbon electricity." Source: Li-Bridge report February 2023Global demand for lithium batteries is expected to surge more than five-fold by 2030, according to public-private alliance Li-Bridge, as more people opt for electric vehicles and energy storage systems.Green Lithium wants to be ready to meet that demand, with plans to have it's plant operational by 2027 and an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons of battery-grade lithium chemicals.That's enough lithium to provide batteries for one million EV car batteries."So really, it's the growth in battery materials that's required to power the electric revolution, the fact that we need electric vehicles, the fact that we need grid storage and domestic storage is producing a huge demand in battery chemicals in Europe and we think by 2030 we're going to need about 800,000 tonnes per annum."

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