odanny
Diamond Member
Shocker, the coal fired Democrat from West Virginia has found bi-partisanship, too. Another shocker. But I'm certainly not opposed to finding such solutions, the world will run on a combination of fossil fuels and renewables for the foreseeable future. If we have both sides pulling in the same direction, we could make real progress.
US Senator Joe Manchin and fellow bipartisan colleagues have urged the Biden Administration to invest more in non-lithium energy storage technologies, while DOE Loan Programs Office head Jigar Shah expects companies developing the latter to broadly secure 1GWh orders this year.
Democrat Manchin and fellow Senators from across the two main parties Angus King, Jim Risch, Shelley Capito and Sheldon Whitehouse have sent an open letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. The letter called on the administration to “use future funding for both lithium and non-lithium battery chemistries to reduce America’s reliance on foreign supply chains and strengthen our energy security.”
The Senators want the administration to follow guidelines in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to invest in a broad variety of energy storage technologies, and pointed out that so far all US$2.8 billion of the the IIJA’s funding for battery technology so far has gone to the lithium-ion supply chain.
The letter comes shortly after the head of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) Jigar Shah told Energy-Storage.news he expected 2023 to be a substantial inflection point for non-lithium technologies.
www.energy-storage.news
US Senator Joe Manchin and fellow bipartisan colleagues have urged the Biden Administration to invest more in non-lithium energy storage technologies, while DOE Loan Programs Office head Jigar Shah expects companies developing the latter to broadly secure 1GWh orders this year.
Democrat Manchin and fellow Senators from across the two main parties Angus King, Jim Risch, Shelley Capito and Sheldon Whitehouse have sent an open letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. The letter called on the administration to “use future funding for both lithium and non-lithium battery chemistries to reduce America’s reliance on foreign supply chains and strengthen our energy security.”
The Senators want the administration to follow guidelines in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to invest in a broad variety of energy storage technologies, and pointed out that so far all US$2.8 billion of the the IIJA’s funding for battery technology so far has gone to the lithium-ion supply chain.
The letter comes shortly after the head of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) Jigar Shah told Energy-Storage.news he expected 2023 to be a substantial inflection point for non-lithium technologies.
Manchin urges investment in non-lithium energy storage, Jigar Shah predicts 1GWh orders in 2023
Senator Joe Manchin has urged the Biden Administration to invest more in non-lithium energy storage technology supply chains.
www.energy-storage.news
