Monthly Archive: December 2022

Australia’s New 2 GW/4.2 GWh Projects To Result In A 10X Increase In Grid-Forming Storage Capacity In National Electricity Market

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has announced $176 million in conditional funding for 8 grid-scale battery projects across Australia. Recent technological advancements and price reductions in the battery storage sector mean that large utility-scale projects are now more viable. We hope to see more GW/GWh scale energy storage projects taking off around the world. In […]

Globeleq Signs Financing Agreement On $108M Menengai Geothermal Project In Kenya

Kenya is in the top ten in the world when it comes to installed geothermal electricity generation capacity. Kenya’s installed capacity for geothermal is about 1,000MW now. This dependable geothermal capacity is the main anchor of Kenya’s renewable energy success story. Along with wind, hydro, and some utility-scale solar, last year, these renewables were responsible […]

Tesla To Build New Factory In Mexico

Milenio, a Mexican news outlet, is reporting this week that Tesla has concluded an agreement with the state of Nueve Léon to build a new factory west of the city of Santa Catarina. CleanTechinca readers may recall that Nueve Léon is home to so many suppliers for the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin that there is […]

You’re Planning On A Non-Tesla EV Purchase For Cross Country Trips

You have your eye on an economical Bolt EUV, or your dream battery-electric car, a BMW i7 or Porsche Taycan, but you are planning frequent or even infrequent cross country trips. For this, ideally you will need functioning, unoccupied CCS chargers at 100 mile intervals along your proposed routes. No way! For most proposed cross-country […]