WASHINGTON, D.C. — As a part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its Loan Programs Office (LPO), today announced the closing of a $303.5 million loan guarantee ($277.5 million of principal and $26 million of capitalized interest) to Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. (Eos) to finance the construction of two state-of-the-art production lines that will be able to produce enough stationary batteries per year to annual electricity needs of approximately 130,000 homes. These facilities will produce “Eos Z3™,” a next-generation utility- and industrial-scale zinc-bromine battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. Pending additional LPO approvals and completion of an Environmental Assessment pursuant to NEPA, two additional lines in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, may also be included as part of the loan guarantee. Today’s announcement underscores DOE’s commitment to fostering innovative energy solutions while creating good-paying, high-quality jobs across America.
华盛顿特区——作为拜登-哈里斯政府“投资美国”议程的一部分，美国能源部（DOE）通过其贷款计划办公室（LPO），今日宣布向Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc.（Eos）提供3.035亿美元的贷款担保（包括2.775亿美元的本金和2600万美元的资本化利息），以资助两条最先进生产线的建设。这些生产线每年可生产足够供应约13万户家庭年用电需求的固定式电池。这些设施将位于宾夕法尼亚州Turtle Creek，生产新一代适用于公用事业和工业规模的锌溴电池储能系统（BESS），即“Eos Z3™”。在获得额外的LPO批准并完成根据《国家环境政策法》（NEPA）规定的环境评估后，该贷款担保还可能包括在宾夕法尼亚州Duquesne的另外两条生产线。今天的公告凸显了美国能源部促进创新能源解决方案并创造高薪优质工作岗位的承诺。
“The Biden-Harris Administration has successfully implemented a new economic playbook that has boosted America’s competitive standing on the world stage as an innovation leader in the cutting-edge technologies of the future,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennfier M. Granholm. “Today’s announcement will bolster the nation’s energy security while ensuring President Biden’s manufacturing boom continues to deliver for generations to come.”
美国能源部长Jennifer M. Granholm表示：“拜登-哈里斯政府成功实施了新的经济计划，大幅提升了美国作为未来尖端技术创新领袖的全球竞争地位。今天的公告将加强国家能源安全，同时确保拜登总统推动的制造业繁荣持续惠及子孙后代。”
All four lines of the project are expected to manufacture 8 GWh of storage capacity annually by 2027, or enough to provide electricity to over 300,000 average U.S. homes instantaneously or meet the annual electricity needs of approximately 130,000 homes if fully charged and discharged daily. The project is expected to create and maintain up to 1000 jobs including both salaried employees and a well-paid manufacturing workforce, unionized by the United Steelworkers—boosting the regional economy and adding to the 16 million jobs created since President Biden and Vice President Harris took office.
该项目的四条生产线预计到2027年每年生产8吉瓦时的储能能力，这相当于瞬时供应超过30万美国家庭的用电，或满足约13万户家庭每天完全充放电的年用电需求。项目预计将创造并维持多达1000个就业岗位，包括固定薪酬员工和由美国钢铁工人工会组织的高薪制造业劳动力，促进区域经济发展，并为拜登总统和哈里斯副总统上任以来新增的1600万个就业岗位贡献力量。
Grid-scale storage allows utilities and industrial customers to store energy when there is a surplus and use it when energy is relatively more expensive or supply is unavailable. BESS can provide numerous grid functions, including an alternative to fossil fuel electricity generation during demand spikes, being a lower-cost option during normal demand, and providing backup power. Today’s energy storage market is nascent but rapidly growing and is dominated by lithium-ion and lithium iron phosphate battery technologies, which typically serve short-term duration applications (approximately 4 hours).
电网规模的储能使公用事业和工业用户可以在电力过剩时储能，并在电价较高或供应不足时使用。BESS可以提供多种电网功能，包括在需求高峰期间作为化石燃料发电的替代方案、在正常需求期间提供更低成本的选择，以及提供备用电源。当前的储能市场尚处于初期但发展迅速，目前由锂离子和磷酸铁锂电池技术主导，这些技术通常用于短时（约4小时）的应用场景。
Eos’s zinc-bromine Eos Z3™ batteries provide alternative battery chemistry to lithium-ion, lead-acid, sodium-sulfur, and vanadium redox chemistries for stationary battery storage applications. Eos’s technology is also specifically designed for long-duration grid-scale stationary battery storage that can assist in meeting the energy grids’ growing demand with increasing amounts of renewable energy penetration. Critically, Eos batteries are non-flammable and do not require active cooling to operate. The batteries can achieve 100% depth of discharge, do not degrade based on age, and are rated for 6,000 charge/discharge cycles before degradation. LPO financing will support manufacturing Eos’s generation battery system, the Eos Z3, which are more energy dense and cost-efficient to produce than Eos’s previous models.
Eos的锌溴电池“Eos Z3™”为固定式电池储能应用提供了锂离子、铅酸、钠硫和钒液流电池的替代化学方案。Eos的技术专为长时电网规模的固定式电池储能设计，可协助电网应对可再生能源渗透率不断提升所带来的增长需求。关键的是，Eos电池不易燃且无需主动冷却即可运行。这些电池可以实现100%的深度放电，不会因老化而退化，并在6000次充放电循环后才出现性能下降。LPO的融资将支持生产更高能量密度且生产成本更低的新一代Eos电池系统“Eos Z3”，优于Eos的旧型号。
Over time, Eos expects to source nearly 100% of the materials supply for the Eos Z3 battery from the United States. The product is also better insulated from market volatility and supply chain risk that challenge other battery chemistries by forgoing scarce critical minerals such as lithium, which are largely imported.
随着时间推移，Eos预计其Eos Z3电池的材料供应几乎100%将来自美国。该产品通过避免使用锂等稀缺关键矿物（主要依赖进口），更好地规避了市场波动和供应链风险，这些问题在其他电池化学体系中更为普遍。
LPO works with all borrowers to create good-paying jobs with strong labour standards during construction, operations, and throughout the life of the loan including developing strong and binding Community Benefits Plans. The jobs created by the project would be based primarily in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, with hourly wages paid at least at the prevailing wage and competitive internship and apprenticeship salaries.
LPO与所有借款方合作，在建设、运营及整个贷款期限内创造高薪职位并实施严格的劳动标准，包括制定强有力且具约束力的社区收益计划。该项目创造的工作岗位主要集中在宾夕法尼亚州Turtle Creek，工人时薪至少符合现行工资标准，并提供具有竞争力的实习和学徒薪资。
As a part of its Community Benefits Plan, Eos is engaged in ongoing community outreach efforts to economic and workforce development leaders, educational institutions, and state and local governments—including Allegheny Conference on Community Development and its economic development affiliate the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, The Heinz Endowment and The Mon Metro Chamber of Commerce, among others—to ensure community participation in the project and to attract a strong local workforce.
作为社区收益计划的一部分，Eos正在与经济和劳动力发展领导者、教育机构以及州和地方政府进行持续的社区联络工作，包括与阿勒格尼社区发展会议及其经济发展分支匹兹堡地区联盟、海因茨基金会、蒙莫特商会等合作，以确保社区参与项目并吸引强大的本地劳动力队伍。
Eos has created a Clean Energy Careers Program to target local high schools, vocational schools, and trade schools to attract students to apprenticeship opportunities; to provide internship opportunities for 2- or 4-year college and high school students to learn skills from Eos welders, chemical engineers, and other professionals, opening up potential long-term career pathways for those students; and to raise awareness of career opportunities at Eos with local veteran groups, literacy centres, and within the nonprofit community.
Eos创建了清洁能源职业计划，面向当地高中、职业学校和技校，吸引学生参与学徒机会；为两年或四年制大学和高中学生提供实习机会，学习Eos焊工、化学工程师及其他专业人士的技能，为这些学生打开潜在的长期职业发展道路；同时，通过与当地退伍军人组织、扫盲中心和非营利机构合作，提升社区对Eos职业机会的认知度。
Turtle Creek and nearby communities are disadvantaged communities (DACs), and the project is situated on a former Westinghouse Electric Corporation campus. The company’s current workforce is diverse across race, gender, and veteran status, and Eos is committed to growing its diverse, equitable, and inclusive team. The project’s support for disadvantaged communities and their workers aligns with the Biden-Harris Administration’s Justice40 Initiative, which sets the goal to ensure at least 40% of overall the benefits of federal clean energy investments flow to DOE-identified DACs that are marginalised by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.
Turtle Creek及其周边社区属于弱势社区（DACs），该项目选址位于前西屋电气公司园区。公司现有员工队伍在种族、性别及退伍军人身份方面具有多样性，Eos致力于发展多元、公平、包容的团队。项目对弱势社区及其工人的支持符合拜登-哈里斯政府的“正义40”倡议，该倡议目标是确保至少40%的联邦清洁能源投资总收益流向能源部认定的因投资不足而被边缘化、因污染过重而受影响的弱势社区。
The loan guarantee is offered through LPO’s Title 17 Clean Energy Financing Program, which includes financing opportunities for innovative energy and supply chain projects like Eos’s and certain state-supported projects and projects that reinvest in existing energy infrastructure.
该贷款担保通过LPO的第17条清洁能源融资计划提供，其中包括对Eos此类创新能源和供应链项目、某些州支持的项目以及对现有能源基础设施再投资的项目提供融资机会。
Across all LPO’s new and improved programs, DOE has attracted 212 active applications for projects across the country totaling over $324.35 billion in requested loans and loan guarantees, as of the end of November.
截至11月底，LPO所有新改进的计划已吸引了来自全国的212个活跃项目申请，总计超过3243.5亿美元的贷款和贷款担保需求。
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment to Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. (Eos) for an up to $398.6 million loan guarantee for the construction of up to four state-of-the-art production lines to produce the “Eos Z3™,” a next-generation utility- and industrial-scale zinc-bromine battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania.
美国能源部（DOE）贷款项目办公室（LPO）今日宣布，拟向Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc.（Eos）提供高达3.986亿美元的贷款担保，用于在宾夕法尼亚州的Turtle Creek建设最多四条先进生产线，生产新一代公用事业级和工业规模的锌溴电池储能系统（BESS）“Eos Z3™”。
If finalized, the project is expected to manufacture 8 GWh of storage capacity annually by 2026. That is enough to provide electricity to over 300,000 average U.S. homes instantaneously or meet the annual electricity needs of approximately 130,000 homes if fully charged and discharged daily. The project is expected to create up to 50 union contractor construction jobs and as many as 650 new operations jobs when at full operational capacity.
如果最终达成，该项目预计到2026年每年生产8 GWh的储能容量，足以即时为超过30万美国家庭供电，或者在每日完全充放电的情况下满足约13万家庭的年度用电需求。项目全面投产后，预计将创造最多50个工会承包商施工岗位以及约650个新运营岗位。
This project supports President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to onshore and re-shore domestic manufacturing of critical technologies—like BESS—essential to building a clean energy future and strengthening America’s energy security. Leveraging loan authority from the President’s Inflation Reduction Act, the LPO is spurring billions in public-private investments to boost the nation’s competitiveness, strengthen supply chains, and create good-paying jobs to power the clean energy economy.
该项目支持拜登总统的“投资美国”计划，旨在本土化和重新引入关键技术（如BESS）的国内制造，推动清洁能源未来的构建并增强美国的能源安全。通过利用总统《通胀削减法案》赋予的贷款权力，LPO正推动数十亿美元的公私合营投资，以增强国家竞争力、强化供应链并创造高薪岗位，为清洁能源经济提供动力。
Investing in America is a key pillar of Bidenomics: growing the American economy from the bottom up and middle-out—from rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, to creating a manufacturing and innovation boom powered by good-paying jobs that don’t require a four-year degree, to building a clean-energy economy that will combat climate change and make our communities more resilient.
“投资美国”是拜登经济学的核心支柱之一：通过从基层和中层推动经济增长，从重建国家基础设施到创造由无需四年制学位的高薪工作推动的制造业和创新热潮，再到构建应对气候变化和增强社区韧性的清洁能源经济。
Today’s energy storage market is nascent but rapidly growing and is dominated by lithium-ion and lithium iron phosphate battery technologies, which typically serve short-term duration applications (approximately 4 hours).
当前的储能市场仍处于起步阶段，但发展迅速，目前主要由锂离子和磷酸铁锂电池技术主导，这些技术通常用于短时应用（约4小时）。
Eos’s zinc-bromine Eos Z3™ batteries provide alternative battery chemistry to lithium-ion, lead-acid, sodium-sulfur, and vanadium redox chemistries for stationary battery storage applications. Eos’s technology is also specifically designed for long-duration grid-scale stationary battery storage that can assist in meeting the energy grids’ growing demand with increasing amounts of renewable energy penetration. Critically, Eos batteries are non-flammable and do not require active cooling to operate. The batteries can achieve 100% depth of discharge, do not degrade based on age, and are rated for 6,000 charge/discharge cycles (~20 years of use) before degradation. Eos already manufactures a zinc-bromine battery; if finalized, LPO financing will help develop the next-generation battery system, the Eos Z3, which are expected to be more energy dense and cost-efficient to produce than Eos’s previous models.
Eos的锌溴电池Eos Z3™为固定式储能应用提供了相对于锂离子、铅酸、钠硫和钒氧化还原电池化学的新选择。Eos的技术专为长时网格规模的固定式储能而设计，能够在可再生能源渗透率不断提高的背景下，满足电网日益增长的需求。Eos电池的重要特性包括不易燃且无需主动冷却即可运行。电池可实现100%的深度放电，不会因年龄而退化，并在退化前能够完成6,000次充放电循环（约20年使用寿命）。目前，Eos已在生产锌溴电池；如果最终达成，LPO的融资将助力下一代电池系统Eos Z3的研发，该系统预计比现有型号具有更高的能量密度和更高的生产成本效率。
The project’s intellectual property is based in the United States. Moreover, Eos over time expects to source nearly 100% of the materials supply for the Eos Z3 battery from the United States. The product is also better insulated from market volatility and supply chain risk that challenge other battery chemistries by forgoing scarce critical minerals such as lithium, which are largely imported.
该项目的知识产权位于美国。此外，Eos预计随着时间推移，Eos Z3电池的原材料供应几乎100%将来自美国。通过不依赖锂等主要依赖进口的稀缺关键矿物，该产品更能抵御市场波动和供应链风险，这些问题在其他电池化学体系中较为常见。
Additionally, grid-scale storage will allow utilities and industrial customers to store clean energy when there is a surplus and use it when energy is relatively more expensive or clean power is unavailable. BESS can provide numerous grid functions, including an alternative to fossil fuel electricity generation during demand spikes, being a lower-cost option during normal demand, and providing backup power.
此外，电网规模的储能系统将允许公用事业和工业客户在能源过剩时储存清洁能源，并在能源相对昂贵或清洁能源不可用时使用。BESS能够为电网提供多种功能，包括在需求高峰时替代化石燃料发电、在正常需求时提供更低成本的选择，以及作为备用电源。
The jobs created by the project would be based primarily in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, with hourly wages paid at least at the prevailing wage and competitive internship and apprenticeship salaries. In addition, LPO works with all borrowers to create good-paying jobs with strong labor standards during construction, operations, and throughout the life of the loan including developing strong Community Benefits Plans.
该项目创造的就业机会主要集中在宾夕法尼亚州的Turtle Creek，时薪至少达到现行工资标准，并提供有竞争力的实习和学徒薪资。此外，LPO与所有借款人合作，在施工、运营以及贷款全生命周期内创造符合高劳动标准的高薪岗位，并制定强有力的社区效益计划。
Eos began community outreach efforts in 2022 to economic and workforce development leaders, educational institutions, and state and local governments—including Allegheny Conference on Community Development and its economic development affiliate the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, The Heinz Endowment and The Mon Metro Chamber of Commerce, among others—to ensure community engagement in the project and to attract a strong local workforce. Eos has created a Clean Energy Careers Program to target local high schools, vocational schools, and trade schools to attract students to apprenticeship opportunities; to provide internship opportunities for 2- or 4-year college and high school students to learn skills from Eos welders, chemical engineers, and other professionals, opening up potential long-term career pathways for those students; and to raise awareness of career opportunities at Eos with local veteran groups, literacy centers, and within the nonprofit community.
Eos自2022年开始与经济和劳动力发展领导者、教育机构以及州和地方政府（包括阿勒格尼社区发展会议及其经济发展附属机构匹兹堡区域联盟、Heinz基金会和Mon Metro商会等）展开社区外联工作，以确保社区参与项目并吸引强大的本地劳动力。Eos还创建了“清洁能源职业计划”，面向当地高中、职业学校和技工学校吸引学生参与学徒机会；为两年制或四年制大学以及高中生提供实习机会，让他们从Eos焊工、化学工程师和其他专业人员处学习技能，为这些学生开辟潜在的长期职业发展路径；并通过与当地退伍军人组织、扫盲中心和非营利社区合作，提高对Eos职业机会的认知度。
Turtle Creek and nearby communities are DOE-identified disadvantaged communities (DACs), and the project is situated on a former Westinghouse Electric Corporation campus. The company’s current workforce is diverse across race, gender, and veteran status, and Eos is committed to growing its diverse, equitable, and inclusive team. The project’s support for overburdened and underserved communities and their workers aligns with the Biden-Harris Administration’s to ensure at least 40% of the benefits of federal clean energy investments go to DOE-identified DACs.
Turtle Creek及其周边社区被美国能源部（DOE）认定为弱势社区（DACs），项目选址位于前西屋电气公司校园内。公司的现有员工在种族、性别和退伍军人身份方面多样化，Eos致力于发展一个多元、公平和包容的团队。该项目对负担过重和服务不足社区及其工人的支持，与拜登-哈里斯政府的目标一致，确保至少40%的联邦清洁能源投资惠及DOE认定的DACs。
The LPO financing would be offered through LPO’s Title 17 Clean Energy Financing Program, which includes financing opportunities for innovative energy and supply chain projects like Eos’s and certain state-supported projects and projects that reinvest in existing energy infrastructure.
LPO融资将通过LPO的《第17条清洁能源融资计划》提供，该计划包括对像Eos这样的创新能源和供应链项目、某些州支持的项目以及现有能源基础设施再投资项目的融资机会。
While this conditional commitment demonstrates the Department’s intent to finance the project, several steps remain for the project to reach critical milestones, and certain technical, legal and financial conditions must be satisfied and diligenced to the satisfaction of DOE before the Department enters into definitive financing documents and funds the loan.
尽管该有条件承诺表明能源部有意为项目融资，但项目需达到若干关键里程碑，且必须满足某些技术、法律和财务条件，并通过能源部的尽职审查，才能签署最终融资文件并发放贷款。
