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"United States president Donald Trump’s continued assault on clean energy has
claimed a raft of new victims, including $US700 million in battery and
manufacturing awards and continued uncertainty in the offshore wind sector.
Despite clean energy’s dominance in the United States’ new electrical
generating capacity – not to mention renewable energy overtaking coal
generation in the global electricity mix for the first time this year – Donald
Trump and his administration continue to wreak havoc on the country’s clean
energy industry, following through on years of anti-climate change,
anti-renewable rhetoric and posturing.
The latest to feel the brunt of the administration’s wholesale attack on clean
energy are a handful of battery manufacturing companies.
According to
Politico’s
E&E News, the US Department of Energy cancelled
over $US700 million in battery and manufacturing awards that had been promised
by the former Biden administration.
The five grants had been awarded to battery companies Ascend Elements, American
Battery Technology Co., Anovion, and ICL Specialty Products, as well as a glass
manufacturer LuxWall.
Cancelling these grants upends plans to build advanced battery manufacturing
projects across the country, including Republican-won states like Kentucky and
Missouri, though at least two of the companies have promised to plough ahead
despite the withdrawal of promised government funding.
According to
E&E News, the grants are part of a larger list of projects being
targeted that has been “circulating among lobbyists” and amounts to more than
$US20 billion in total."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
