| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.07.2025 | Ghost factories are a warning sign for green manufacturing’s future | Now there’s another, major threat to the sector: Trump’s massive tax-and-spending package, which rolls back Biden’s generous green subsidies.
Signed into law by Trump on Friday, it phases out credits for producing solar and wind energy year... |
| 18.03.2025 | The Electric Surge: How Partnerships and Investments are Shaping the Future of EVs in Asia | The electric vehicle (EV) landscape is evolving rapidly. Two recent developments in Asia illustrate this transformation. NaaS Technology Inc. and Xiaomi Auto are joining forces in China, while Thailand welcomes a significant investment from... |
| 13.03.2025 | Thailand Approves Sunwoda to Invest More Than US$1 billion in EV Battery Cell Plants | BANGKOK, March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Thailand's Commission on the National Competitiveness Enhancement for Targeted Industries, at a meeting today, approved an investment by a unit of China's Sunwoda Electronic worth more than a billion ... |
| 03.02.2025 | Solar cell developer Art-PV receives $10 million grant from MNRE | IIT Bombay-incubated Art-PV India Pvt Ltd has received a $10 million grant from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). The company will use the funds to establish a plant for manufacturing high-efficiency tandem solar cells, sourc... |
| 02.03.2023 | Kore Power and Siemens cooperate for US cell factory | US battery developer Kore Power plans to partner with Siemens to set up a battery cell factory with an annual capacity of 12 GWh in the US state of Arizona. The ‘KOREPlex’ factory in Buckeye in the Phoenix metropolitan area will produce bat... |
| 03.12.2022 | GM, LG joint venture to invest $275 million in Tennessee battery cell plant | WASHINGTON :General Motors Co and LG Energy Solution Ltd said Friday they are investing another $275 million in their Tennessee joint venture battery cell plant to increase production by more than 40 per cent.
The new investment in the Ulti... |
| 05.05.2022 | Porsche AG leads $400 million series C funding of US high-performance battery cell fabrication | Group14 Technologies, a manufacturer and supplier of advanced silicon-carbon technology for lithium-silicon batteries, has raised $400 million in Series C funding led by Porsche AG. Group14 plans to use the funding to build its second comme... |
| 28.03.2022 | Funding and M&A Roundup: SolarEdge Technologies Raises $678.5 Million | Staff |
| 17.08.2021 | All eyes on lithium: Sizing up a potential U.S.-based lithium battery supply chain | All eyes on lithium: Sizing up a potential U.S.-based lithium battery supply chain
By Charles W. Thurston August 17, 2021 View Profile
The lithium battery boom is here to stay as the demand for EVs and energy storage is going crazy. Yet, gl... |
| 02.08.2021 | KORE Power building 12-GW lithium battery plant in Arizona | KORE Power building 12-GW lithium battery plant in Arizona
By Chris Crowell August 2, 2021 View Profile
KORE Power, Inc. announced today the first lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility wholly owned by a U.S. company will be built in Ma... |
| 16.03.2020 | Demand Power gets $71 million for battery storage, solar and energy services | Humans are going to continue to need cheap renewable power and energy storage, regardless of the species taking some sick-time off.
Demand Power, a behind-the-meter energy storage and services company, just closed a $71 million raise of equ... |
| 01.03.2020 | Energy storage projects reach ‘investment-grade’ with esVolta’s $140 million debt facility | esVolta, a developer of utility-scale battery energy storage projects, recently closed a $140 million senior secured credit facility to finance a 136 MW/480 MWh portfolio of eight storage projects in California.
It’s this type of institutio... |
| 24.02.2020 | Energy storage roundup: Kore’s 110 kw-hr rack, KiloVault’s 7.5 kW-hr wall-mount, NeoVolta’s 24 kw-hr battery system | Falling battery costs, shifting utility strategies and new PUC policies are drawing fresh entrants and incumbents into an invigorated energy storage sector.
We profile three energy storage industry aspirants today: Kore Power and its big ba... |
| 25.10.2019 | Hardware brief: Minimalist racking, optimized car charging, a 10 GWh/year battery factory & more! | Battery assembly needs robots, robot technicians, a good supply chain, consistent electricity (or not, actually…), and good access to highways to move these shipping container-sized products. Kore Power is searching for a location within th... |
| 14.02.2019 | France to invest €700M in battery cell production | - |
| - | EGEB: KORE to build 12 GWh lithium-ion battery factory in Arizona | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
KORE Power will build the first lithium-ion battery factory wholly owned by a US company.
A Bronx, New York food distributor will host a 2.7-megawatt community solar project on its roof.
Unders... |
| - | Germany announces $1 billion investment in local battery cell production to support EV growth | The German government doesn’t like to see its local automakers rely on battery cells from Asia to build electric vehicles, which is why it announced today a 1 billion euro investment to support local battery cell production.
Economy Ministe... |
| - | KORE to build 12 GWh lithium-ion battery factory in Arizona | KORE Power is now ready to build the first lithium-ion battery factory wholly owned by a US company.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now o... |
| - | VW announces electric vehicle production plans with 16 sites, $25 billion in battery cell contracts | As we discussed in the latest episode of the Electrek Podcast, Volkswagen’s electric car efforts mostly consist of press releases and concept vehicles at this time, but they seem quite serious about it based on their investments.
Today, the... |
| - | BMW invest $240 million to bring electric car range to 430 miles with new battery cell center | In Munich today, BMW announced a 200 million euro investment in a new ‘BMW Group Battery Cell Competence Centre’ in order to develop their next generation electric vehicle powertrain.
They will have 200 employees at the new facility working... |
| - | KORE Power Receives $850 Million Conditional Commitment From U.S. Department of Energy | KORE Power – a leading U.S.-based developer of battery cell technology and integrated solution manufacturer for the energy storage and e-mobility sectors – announced it has received a conditional commitment from the U.S. Department of Energ... |
| - | Tesla announces $25,000 electric car enabled by new battery cell | Tesla today announced an upcoming $25,000 electric car enabled by its new battery cell and coming within the next three years.
Originally, CEO Elon Musk indicated that Tesla wouldn’t likely make a car for less than $35,000.
His thought proc... |
| - | KORE Power | “At KORE, we provide integrated renewable energy resources by bringing state-of-the-art commercial and industrial battery and ESS technology to North America.” |
| - | EGEB: Two Arizona companies partner to ramp up EV truck, battery production | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Two Arizona-based companies team up to produce batteries and convert truck fleets to electric.
US hydropower generation is forecast to decline 14% in 2021 as a result of drought.
UnderstandSola... |
