RECAP: With CE4AEF Help, ESS Inc. Hosts 1-Year IRA Anniversary Celebration in Oregon

“What clean energy success looks like.”

On August 15, ESS Inc. and Clean Energy For America co-hosted an event celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act’s passage and its impact on the clean energy industry in Oregon. The celebration was held at ESS’ headquarters in Wilsonville, Oregon, where Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Dr. Christopher Saldaña, Director of the Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Office at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Andrew Reagan, Executive Director of Clean Energy for America joined to tout the  ESS’ growth, thanks to federal investments. 

ESS specializes in producing long-duration energy storage systems (LDES) for projects such as utility-scale renewable energy installations, remote solar and storage microgrids, solar load-shifting, etc. Local and federal government officials alongside industry stakeholders toured the facilities’ first fully automated manufacturing line, where ESS is expanding production of its iron flow battery technology used to develop more reliable and resilient energy grids.

In 2022, ESS supported over 530 direct and indirect clean energy jobs and it’s not stopping anytime soon, thanks to federal investment in advancing our energy transition. “Expanding the domestic manufacturing and global deployment of innovative new clean energy technologies, such as iron flow batteries, were key goals of the Inflation Reduction Act,” said Dr. Christopher Saldaña, director of the Energy Department’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office. 

The future of clean energy is looking bright for Oregon, as President Biden’s Affordable Clean Energy Plan is helping them to achieve their energy goals. 

P.S. If your company is interested in promoting an announcement, and you would like it to succeed like ESS’, CE4A can partner with you too. Contact craig@ceforamerica.org to learn more.