中國儲能網訊：美利堅合眾國進出口銀行提供的5000萬美元融資方案將使ESS能夠擴大制造能力，實現成本效益并加快部署。
$50 million financing package provided by the Export-Import Bank of the United States of America will enable ESS to expand manufacturing capabilities, achieve cost efficiencies and accelerate deployments.
俄勒岡州威爾森維爾–2024年6月27日–ESS Tech，股份有限公司（ESS）（紐約證券交易所代碼：GWH），一家領先的商業(yè)和公用事業(yè)級長期儲能系統（LDES）制造商，今天宣布，美國進出口銀行（EXIM）董事會根據“在美國做更多”倡議批準了5000萬美元的融資計劃。這筆融資將用于擴大ESS在俄勒岡州威爾遜維爾的生產能力，以滿足全球對LDES快速增長的需求。ESS正在向歐洲、澳大利亞和非洲的客戶提供鐵系液流電池儲能系統，提供能源彈性，并加快全球向清潔能源的過渡。
Wilsonville, Ore. – June 27, 2024 – ESS Tech, Inc. (ESS) (NYSE: GWH), a leading manufacturer of long-duration energy storage systems (LDES) for commercial and utility-scale applications, today announced that a financing package of $50 million was approved by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Board of Directors under the Make More in America Initiative. This financing will fund the expansion of ESS’ production capacity in Wilsonville, Ore. to meet rapidly growing global demand for LDES. ESS is delivering iron flow energy storage systems to customers in Europe, Australia and Africa, providing energy resilience and accelerating the global transition to clean energy.
進出口銀行的“在美國制造更多”倡議于2022年啟動，提供中長期貸款、貸款擔保和保險，為出口導向的國內制造業(yè)項目提供資金。MMIA支持半導體、生物技術和生物醫(yī)學產品、可再生能源和儲能等領域的環(huán)保項目、小企業(yè)和轉型出口交易，同時支持國內就業(yè)。與進出口銀行的合作有望在威爾遜維爾和全國范圍內帶來經濟效益。ESS 100%的產品在美國生產，利用橫跨29個州的主要國內供應鏈，這將最大限度地提高該融資方案帶來的經濟效益。
Launched in 2022, EXIM’s Make More in America Initiative (MMIA) makes available medium- and long-term loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to finance export-oriented domestic manufacturing projects. MMIA supports environmentally beneficial projects, small businesses, and transformational export transactions, in areas including semiconductors, biotech and biomedical products, renewable energy, and energy storage while supporting domestic jobs. This partnership with EXIM is expected to deliver economic benefits both in Wilsonville and nationwide. ESS manufactures 100% of its products in the United States, leveraging a predominantly domestic supply chain that spans 29 states, which will maximize the economic benefits delivered by this financing package.
ESS首席執(zhí)行官Eric Dresselhuys表示：“我們與進出口銀行的合作突顯了美國制造的清潔能源技術將在全球清潔能源轉型中發(fā)揮的關鍵作用。”。“ESS的鐵系液流電池技術已經在澳大利亞和歐洲部署，通過這項協議，我們能夠滿足當前和未來全球客戶日益增長的需求。”
“Our partnership with EXIM underscores the critical role that American-made clean energy technology will play in the global clean energy transition,” said ESS CEO Eric Dresselhuys. “ESS’s iron flow technology is already deployed in Australia and Europe and with this agreement, we are well positioned to meet the growing needs of our current and future global customers.”
進出口銀行批準的融資將使威爾遜維爾的年產能增加兩倍。該倡議資助的新制造能力將基于ESS開發(fā)和完善的經驗證的電池模塊生產流程。
Financing approved by EXIM will enable the tripling of annual production capacity in Wilsonville. New manufacturing capacity funded by this initiative will be based upon the proven battery module production processes developed and refined by ESS.
“我們自豪地批準進出口銀行的第四，在美國交易給小企業(yè)和儲能制造商ESS，”Reta Jo Lewis主席說。“這筆交易將確保進出口銀行繼續(xù)履行我們的任務，支持對全球能源轉型至關重要的技術，同時加強供應鏈，支持國內數百個高薪工作崗位?！弊鳛殍F系液流電池技術的領先商業(yè)制造商，ESS的LDES解決方案可緩解可再生間歇性，并使可再生能源成為基載能源。ESS鐵系液流電池解決方案具有長達12小時的儲能能力，可增強能源彈性和可靠性，確保即使基礎設施老化、氣候影響、位置或可再生能源供需波動，仍能持續(xù)提供電力。
“We are proud to approve EXIM’s fourth Make More in America transaction to small business and energy storage manufacturer ESS,” said Chair Reta Jo Lewis. “This transaction will ensure that EXIM continues to meet our mandates to support technologies that are critical to the global energy transition while bolstering supply chains and supporting hundreds of good- paying jobs at home.” As the leading commercial manufacturer of iron flow battery technology, ESS’s LDES solutions mitigate renewable?intermittency and enable renewable energy to become baseload energy. With up to 12 hours of energy storage capacity, ESS iron flow solutions bolster?energy resilience and reliability,?ensuring electricity is?consistently available, despite aging infrastructure, climate?impacts, location, or fluctuations?in renewable supply and demand.
最近，ESS宣布與尼日利亞綜合能源公司Sapele Power建立合作關系，該公司代表尼日利亞和整個撒哈拉以南非洲地區(qū)的首批儲能項目之一，部分資金由進出口銀行提供。該交易因推動非洲投資和在整個非洲大陸創(chuàng)造新機會而獲得進出口銀行撒哈拉以南非洲年度交易獎。ESS還與全球能源和服務公司建立了合作伙伴關系，包括霍尼韋爾國際公司、德國能源公司LEAG，以及通過當地合作伙伴與澳大利亞發(fā)電商斯坦威爾公司等。
Recently, ESS announced a partnership, financed in part by EXIM, with Sapele Power, a Nigerian integrated energy company, representing one of the first energy storage projects in Nigeria and the entire sub-Saharan Africa region. The deal won EXIM’s Sub-Saharan Africa Deal of the Year Award for driving investment in Africa and creating new opportunities across the continent. ESS also has partnerships with global energy and services companies including Honeywell International, German energy company LEAG and, through a local partner, Australian generator Stanwell Corporation, among others.
