CEO, Clean Energy Finance Corporation
Stories naming Ian Learmonth. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
RenewEconomy questions why Wesfarmers, whose Bunnings chain already runs on fully renewable power, is receiving $100 million in concessional government finance for more solar, batteries and EV charging.
The fund's authors recap two climate-investment events, weighing the massive global capital needs, mixed public-private funding models, and its clean-economy portfolio activity in Victoria.
The CEFC has committed $75 million in debt funding to Rino Recycling's new Brisbane plant recycling construction and demolition waste, its largest investment to date from its recycling fund.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: Manildra draws on CEFC money to quit coal, Ankere Therapeutics launches with seed backing, Micro-X gear reaches Ukraine, plus a vessel naming, precinct tenders, an FFI appointment and a cable rebrand.
Envirotech startup Samsara has raised $6 million from Main Sequence, W23 and the CEFC to build a recycling plant and grow its enzyme-based plastics technology team.
Soil carbon measurement startup Downforce Technologies closed a $3 million seed round backed by CEFC's Clean Energy Innovation Fund, Perivoli Innovations and Tiverton, with Australia as its first target market.
An EV charging company has closed a Series B of over A$25 million led by RACV, with the CEFC's innovation fund, Claremont Capital and earlier individual backers taking part; its 2020 Series A is also recalled.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed $37 million to X-Elio's 200MW Blue Grass solar farm in Queensland, lending alongside ING and SMBC, with the project using bifacial panels and half-cut cells.