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US President Joe Biden visiting a National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) solar facility. Image: NREL.

Biden’s executive action to support solar likely to run in tandem with support for energy storage

June 14, 2022
Actions taken this month by the US government to support solar industry unlikely to come at the expense of support for energy storage.
Land at California's Salton Sea, where the extraction of lithium from geothermal brine will be piloted. Image: CTR.

Biden’s Defense Production Act intervention ‘won’t solve near term battery supply chain challenges’

April 14, 2022
President Joe Biden’s recent invocation of the Defense Production Act of 1950 could help solve supply chain issues, but only over the longer term. 

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