The Renaissance is now! We’re proof that it is not just a vision but reality that Australia can be a battery manufacturing powerhouse.
16 March 2023
We are excited to have the Australian Financial Review (AFR) echo our story and highlight the proof that a Renaissance for Aussie manufacturing is happening NOW.
Tom Richardson from the AFR, spoke with our Founder and CEO Brian Craighead about how Energy Renaissance “plans to unleash Anthony Albanese’s dream of making Australia a battery manufacturing powerhouse by building multiple gigafactories nationwide as new cathedrals to the clean energy age.” Brian outlined how the nation’s first lithium-ion battery manufacturing gigafactory in Tomago, NSW, Renaissance One, “will employ 700 people at full capacity … and could scale to produce 5.3-gigawatt hours of energy storage per year.”
Brian went on to say that our batteries today comprise 92% Australian components and that “we are committed to supporting the government’s target of shoring up the nation’s sovereign manufacturing capacity.” Looking to the future, “the final step is to make the cells, so we’re entirely vertically integrated. Now, 100 per cent of cells in this country are imported. The reality is China has jumped ahead of the world, which is why you need to make batteries and cells here.
Australia has all the minerals in the world you need for batteries, and right now, it’s like selling water in a drought. To put it into perspective, we could open one gigafactory a month for six years and not meet the current undersupply of batteries. So we’re always hopeful of federal or state government support for expansion capital.”
The Renaissance is now! Our battery solutions are shipping out today, and demand is skyrocketing. We’re proof that it is not just a vision but a reality that Australia can be a battery manufacturing powerhouse.
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