Energy Business
Mon, Sep 28
Molly Glick
Molly Glick
Energy Central Team
·Posted in Energy Business

NEWS: An inverter factory with up to 40 GW of annual capacity is headed to Texas.

  • Power Electronics recently broke ground on the facility, which will span over 800K sq. ft. The mega-factory is poised to “help shape the future of energy and AI growth globally,” said CEO David Salvo in a statement. 

  • The timing: The recent groundbreaking arrives two months after the Trump administration’s foreign-made inverter ban—and we’ll need plenty more homegrown capacity amid the ongoing grid buildout. As of 2020, only 7% of inverters used in the US were produced here.

  • Plus, a storage switch-up: California-based battery startup EnerVenue planned to open its first factory in Kentucky…but has gone with China instead. Why? The company pointed to the ample labor pool and strong supply chain in the city of Changzhou, which has hailed itself as China’s “new energy capital.

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