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Not everyone is leaving California - new commercial battery maker sets up shop in Sacramento

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By Blanca Begert Verified
| Miami Herald Verified
The lithium-ion batteries that supply much of today's clean energy come with some infamous drawbacks, from fire risk to reliance on foreign mining. Alternatives have been slow to get off the ground. But California start-up Peak Energy announced Wednesday it's building a factory in Sacramento that will be the first in the U.S. to make sodium-ion battery packs at commercial scale. Sodium-ion batteries have long held promise. They are made from cheap and abundant sodium ash deposits.
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Not everyone is leaving California -- new commercial battery maker sets up shop in Sacramento Original

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By Blanca Begert Verified
| Yahoo Finance Verified
Other U.S.-based sodium-ion startups have floundered of late. Natron Energy canceled plans to produce sodium-ion battery cells in North Carolina last year after funding difficulties. Bedrock Materials, which was making sodium-ion batteries for EVs, also closed up shop, citing a bet on a lithium supply shortage that hadn't panned out. But Peak Energy's model is different, said Mossburg. Unlike Natron, it won't be trying to make the batteries that go into their systems at first.
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California's sky-high electricity prices

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By Blanca Begert Verified
| The Brunswick News Verified
LOS ANGELES - The nation is awash in data center hate, and California is no exception. Temporary bans have cropped up across the state as residents from Imperial County to San José fight proposals in their communities. Monterey Park became the first city in the country earlier this month to permanently ban data centers by a popular vote. And a recent poll sponsored by the environmental group Net-Zero California showed 70% of state residents don't want data centers in their communities.
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