Biden-Harris Administration Announces Actions to Strengthen Clean Energy Supply Chains and Accelerate Manufacturing in Energy and Industrial Communities
Summary
Each project positions the U.S. to enhance its global competitiveness and national security by building domestic supply chains for existing and emerging technologies, built with American labor and materials. Thanks to the Presidents Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, these projects will leverage over $600 million in private sector investments into small- and medium-sized manufacturers and create nearly 1,500 high-quality, good-paying jobs in cutting edge technologies. The project selections announced today will strengthen domestic clean energy supply chains by making them more resilient, robust, and cost-competitive.The selected projects with small and medium-sized manufactures will build up the production of technologies, such as insulated windows essential in large building retrofits, wind turbines, materials for grid components and critical battery materials, to reduce the nations reliance on fossil fuels, strengthen national defense and energy independence, and mitigate the climate crisis. FastCAP Systems d/b/a Nanoramic Laboratories, will build a new facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to manufacture lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery electrodes for grid storage. MESC leads several of DOEs Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investments, including the Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Program.