Dawei Technology has signed an EV supply chain investment cooperation agreement with the local government of Guiyang County in Hunan Province, China. The company’s investment consists of $1.3 billion for lithium mining, $1.74 billion for battery manufacturing, and $140 million for EV production. This will result in 40,000 tons of annual lithium carbonate production from 8 million tons of ore processing production capacity, and in 20 GWh of lithium production capacity. Origis Energy has contracted Mitsubishi Power Americas to build three utility-scale battery energy storage system projects totaling 150MW/600MWh, the projects aim to supplement the value of the company’s existing solar assets. Umicore and Nano One Materials Corp have signed a non-exclusive joint development agreement on production process technologies…