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Wallbox, a global EV charging solutions provider, sets to expand its flagship US manufacturing facility in Arlington, Texas, with support of the 48C tax credit, equipping the 150,000-square-foot facility with multiple new EVSE assembly lines and a validation lab for its suite of EV charging solutions designed exclusively for the North American market-including the Quasar 2 bidirectional charger and best-in-class DC fast chargers, like the new 180 kW Supernova DCFC. Upon project completion, the Arlington facility is expected to be the production home for all Wallbox products sold in the US, each designed to help underpin the transition to EVs and support US clean infrastructure goals, with a projected maximum production capacity of more than 1 million chargers per year by 2030.

This project will construct a new, state-of-the-art plant at the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility site in Hopkins, South Carolina to manufacture advanced nuclear fuel assemblies with Low Enrichment Uranium Plus (LEU+) enrichments up to 8% uranium-235. The plant will produce LEU+ fuel that can operate longer and produce more energy to operate for extended operation and at higher power to improve the efficiency of carbon-free power generation in Pressurized Water Reactors. Approximately 750 years of work will be needed to deliver the plant, which will add 100 long term jobs and sustain the CFFF workforce long into the 21st century.

X-energy's TRISO-X company manufactures TRi-structural ISOtropic (TRISO) coated-particle fuel; each particle consists of a uranium, carbon and oxygen fuel kernel encapsulated in three layers of carbon or ceramic materials which prevent the release of radioactive fission products. DOE has demonstrated TRISO's outstanding performance and thereby reduced the risk for industrial use. TRISO-X, using commercial scale equipment at a pilot facility, optimized fuel fabrication processes to generate kernels and TRISO particles with less waste and scrap and higher delivered throughput that provides higher product yield and quality. Our project will construct a new ~215,000 sq ft facility to process uranium enriched to less than 20% uranium-235 (by weight) to manufacture nuclear fuel products, including TRISO pebbles for X-energy's Xe-100 reactors as well as TRISO particles and compacts for other users. The TX-1 will produce ~714,000 Xe-100 pebbles/year. The TX-1 will be built on the 110-acre TRISO-X Campus located in the Horizon Center Industrial Park (Roane County, TN), ~7 miles southwest of the City of Oak Ridge. In 1996, DOE released this land for development of this industrial park to diversify the economic base of the region. Oak Ridge transferred the property to X-energy in 2022 to establish the TRISO-X Campus.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $300 million in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants to 34 Tribal nations and territories. These grants, part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, aim to cut climate pollution and accelerate the clean energy transition. The projects include installing solar arrays, improving energy efficiency, and developing electric vehicle infrastructure. This marks one of the largest climate investments in Tribal and territorial communities.

Vitro Architectural Glass, with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has proposed to expand its architectural glass plant in Wichita Falls, Texas to construct a new oxygen-fueled furnace with a roll forming process to domestically produce patterned glass using a base low-iron solar glass substrate. The U.S. Department of Energy recommended the proposal to the Internal Revenue Service which approved a Section 48C(e) funding allocation up to $67.66 million in income tax credits based on the eligible capital and prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements. The proposed project would support 1,180 full-time equivalent construction jobs and 290 new full-time Vitro employees.

This project will establish Hawaii?s first PV module processing and recycling facility using state-of-the-art module recycling machinery. This facility will be able to process Hawaii's used, decommissioned, or discarded solar panels into critical materials that will be recirculated into the clean energy domestic supply chain.

Topsoe is planning a state-of the art factory in Chesterfield, Virginia, that will manufacture Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cell stacks (SOEC), the key element to the world's most efficient electrolyzer technology. The cells will be used to produce clean hydrogen, which is essential for the US and global energy transition. The factory is expected to create at least 150 direct jobs in Virginia and more than 1,000 indirect jobs through the value chain.

TS Conductor has been awarded up to $36 million through the 48C program to help establish a clean energy manufacturing facility in Indiantown, Florida. The facility will manufacture the Total Solution Conductor (TSC), a high-performance electrical transmission distribution conductor that will drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The eligible facility, known as the Carbon Composite Conductor Florida Expansion (CCCFE), will be located on the site of the Indiantown Cogeneration Plant. The project will meet prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements and expand opportunities for workers impacted by the energy transition away from coal and fossil fuel-based industries. TS Conductor Corp. is a Minority Owned Business that manufactures advanced high-capacity conductors that can triple power grid capacity without retrofitting any structures in existing right of way and reduce line loss by half. It also facilitates new transmission line construction with the least capital expenditure among all conductor options. Deployed nationwide, TSC would reduce energy generation GHG emissions from line-loss by approximately 60 million metric tons per year (Mt yr) or 1.2% of all U.S. GHG emissions. Even more impactful, further deployment would increase capacity of existing grid infrastructure to support 100% of the solar and wind generation projects currently seeking grid interconnection.

Through this project, Twelve will design, construct, and deploy a manufacturing facility for its core technology, the Opus CO2 electrolyzers, in Alameda, CA, establishing ourselves as the world's largest manufacturer of PEM CO2 electrolyzers. This project will continue to grow the carbon transformation industry, potentially enabling thousands of new jobs across a growing clean energy manufacturing industry. The Opus units manufactured from this site will be used at other Twelve projects to produce power-to-liquid (PtL) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other value-added chemicals, supporting the Administration's ambitious decarbonization goals and enabling the scale needed to compete with petroleum-based products produced in the US.

Siemens Energy will address the transformer shortage by building its first Large Power Transformer (LPT) manufacturing facility in the United States. 80% of LPTs, which are the backbone of America's power grid, currently are made outside of the U.S. and this $150M investment will address the critical need for more LPT domestic manufacturing, strengthen the U.S. supply chain, enable a more resilient grid, and accelerate the energy transition.