Darden storage site in Fresno County is the first California project to be permitted under the state’s new Opt-In Certification program to speed environmental review of critical energy infrastructure to less than 270 days.
Mateo Jaramillo, co-founder and CEO of long-duration battery storage innovator Form Energy, hit the trifecta last year: completing its first factory in West Virginia with plans to expand this year; getting its first U.S. commercial system installations under way; and gaining an eye-catching $405 million in a private funding round.
Form Energy will expand its just completed scaled-up iron-air system factory in West Virginia, also announcing $1.2 billion in firm investments and plans to deploy batteries at commercial scale, with Mortenson as contractor for the first project in Minnesota.
Planned 1.2-million-sq-ft plant in Edgecombe County, N.C., which would have 24-GW capacity to produce batteries favored for microgrids and data centers, would be the first large domestic producer of the alternative technology to lithium-ion.
Federal grants and loans under new infrastructure funding laws will favor applicants with strategies to retain and attract skilled workers for “high-quality jobs," a move observers say is timed with escalating auto industry labor battles.
Company says it will need more manufacturing plants to reach targeted EV battery production capacity, as a $4-billion electric vehicle battery assembly plant is advancing in De Soto, Kan.
Lithium-ion battery developer KORE Power Inc. to supplement cost of $1.25-billion advanced EV battery manufacturing plant underway in Buckeye, Ariz., with $850-million conditional U.S. Energy Dept. loan.