The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains has selected Form Energy for an award of up to $150 million under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing program.
This selection will support Form Energy’s Project RAPID (Realizing Advanced Production of Iron-Air Batteries for Commercial Deployment), partially funding the installation and operation of a new manufacturing line at Form Factory 1 in Weirton, West Virginia that will have an annual production capacity of up to 20 GWh by 2027.
Form Energy’s factory is located on a historic 55-acre site in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, where the former Weirton Steel Corporation once employed over 12,000 workers. The company reports that it recently completed the first phase of construction for its 550,000-square-foot facility and has begun trial production of its groundbreaking multi-day battery systems.
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