EnerSys is in negotiations with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains to receive $199 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing Grants. The company, which specializes in stored energy solutions for industrial applications, plans to use the money to build a lithium-ion cell production facility in Greenville, South Carolina. EnerSys plans to invest $615 million into the new 500,000-square-foot plant over the next four years, creating up to 500 new jobs in the process. The new facility will produce various form factors of lithium-ion cells for commercial, industrial, and defense applications, with an initial production capacity of five gigawatt hours (GWh) per year. According to the company, EnerSys will also invest $50 million to construct a specialized production line for the U.S. Department of Defense. Construction is expected to begin in 2025, with production beginning in 2028.
What people are saying
In a recent quote, EnerSys President and CEO David M. Shaffer said, “We are pleased to be selected for DOE funding to support this important domestic manufacturing investment. Our new factory will provide lithium-ion cells supporting a wide range of our products across all of our business segments, including fast charge and storage systems, NexSys® iON batteries to power electric forklifts, Alpha® XRT-Li extended runtime power systems for communications networks, and future incremental high-energy Li6T batteries for DOD ground vehicles. This project will strengthen our U.S.-based supply chain and provide us the manufacturing scale and flexibility we need. We are confident that this factory will generate a strong return on investment and will help drive the long-term growth of our company.
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