Global energy events: Western Australia allocate A$50 million to support local battery industry, and the UK publish future homes standard this autumn.

2025-06-26

The Western Australian government announced the 2025-26 fiscal year budget, investing A$50 million (about US$32.5 million) to launch a local battery manufacturing plan. The plan includes A$30 million in enterprise matching subsidies (up to A$10 million per enterprise) and A$20 million in low-interest loans or land support, aiming to expand local production capacity to meet the surge in residential energy storage demand.

This investment is linked to the state government's A$337 million residential battery plan and the federal "cheaper home battery" plan, which will be implemented on July 1, 2025, providing subsidies of up to A$7,500 and interest-free loans, and is expected to benefit 100,000 households. The state governor emphasized that household energy storage will work with large-scale battery projects such as Kwinana to support grid stability and help achieve the goal of completely exiting coal-fired power in 2030.

Supporting energy transformation investments include A$584 million to expand the South West Interconnector System (SWIS) to access renewable energy in the north, A$83 million to promote local manufacturing of electric buses/ferries, A$30 million to attract critical minerals/hydrogen energy projects, and A$25 million to establish a transmission equipment localization fund to enhance the competitiveness of the local supply chain.

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Synergy has completed construction of the second stage of the Kwinana battery energy storage project at an investment of approximately A$661 million.


Europe

The UK vigorously promotes rooftop solar plans, the government confirms new build homes will have solar panels by default.

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The suspension of wind and solar power in France is jointly opposed by the industry, and the 200TWh renewable target is threatened

The three major organizations in the French renewable energy industry, the Renewable Energy Union, the Solar Energy Association and the French Agricultural Light Association, jointly called on parliamentarians to reject the amendment to the Energy Planning Act in the final vote on June 24. The amendment was passed by the National Assembly with 65:62 votes on June 19, including the suspension of all new wind power and photovoltaic project development, the restart of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant, the cancellation of biofuel targets, and the definition of decarbonized energy limited to nuclear energy.


West Asia——Turkey's renewable energy installed capacity increased by 4.5 times, and the annual large-scale wind and solar tenders in the future will be 2GW, with a total of more than 20 tenders

In order to achieve the goal of 120GW of wind and solar power installed capacity in 2035, Turkey will maintain a high-frequency project development rhythm in the next decade, with a total investment of US$80 billion, and tenders for at least 2,000 MW of projects each year through the YEKA renewable energy resource area mechanism. It is expected that the total number of large-scale wind and solar tenders will exceed 20. In October, Türkiye will launch the YEKA 2025 solar project bidding and in November the wind power project bidding.


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