Clean energy loan and grant activity from the US Department of Energy (DOE) and its Loan Programs Office (LPO) has soared around the election of Donald Trump, analysis by Energy-Storage.news shows, with officials reportedly keen to get deals over the line before the new administration comes in.

Donald Trump has threatened to impose additional 10% tariffs on all goods from China once he takes office, which would compound existing tariffs the BESS industry already has to deal with.

A flurry of news on DOE Loan Programs Office project loans could show a rush to get deals done before Trump’s administration takes office.

Li-Cycle has finalised a loan of nearly half a million dollars to with the DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) scale up its battery recycling facilities in the US, with the near-term direction of the LPO under a Trump administration likely to change.

NYSE-listed battery startup Freyr has pivoted strategy and acquired a 5GW solar module facility in Texas, US, from Chinese firm Trina Solar, the same day that Donald Trump was declared to have won the presidential election (6 November).

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A push to establish an Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for energy storage has not only been welcomed by clean energy advocates and the industry, but might also meet the some stated aims of the Trump administration’s energy policies, an analyst has said.