Australia has clawed back AU$1.3 billion (US$940 million) in uncommitted clean energy manufacturing funding, with the Solar Sunshot Program and Battery Breakthrough Initiative among the programmes hit by budget cuts announced this week.
We catch up with Ingmar Wilhelm, co-founder and CEO of developer and IPP Galileo, after the firm commissioned its first own-operate renewable energy project.
In this US news roundup, battery energy storage system (BESS) project updates from Spearmint Energy in Texas, Polaris Renewable Energy in Puerto Rico, and Clearway Energy Group in Utah.
Japanese telecoms tech company Softbank Corporation has launched a battery cell and battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing arm in its home country.
Chinese renewable energy solutions provider Envision Energy will explore renewables opportunities in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, with Nova Scotia-based Cape Breton China Corp.
US sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery startup Alsym Energy and California-based renewables developer Juniper Energy have announced a 500MWh strategic partnership.
BayWa r.e. will manage and maintain Germany’s largest operational BESS when it comes online later this year, while Terra One has started building a smaller project in the same state.
The US clean energy manufacturing industry is starting to undergo a wholesale restructuring and recapitalisation as companies look to reduce their exposure to numerous risks, including FEOC.
