The company has signed battery material supply deals with Panasonic Energy, Stellantis and PowerCo from an existing facility in Chattanooga.
A coalition including Industrial Energy Consumers of America and ratepayer advocates from Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia called for the use of independent transmission planners.
“We’ve spent countless hours evaluating the PCM — up until, literally, my last open meeting,” Commissioner Lori Cobos said Thursday. She announced her retirement in December.
The IRA has undeniably presented owners with new and significant opportunities connected to building new clean energy projects, but taking advantage of these opportunities has also presented considerable challenges.
The standards are the first in what is expected to be a suite of NERC rules for inverter-based resources, which can trip offline during grid disturbances.
The chargers will support electric vehicles equipped with either CCS or NACS charging ports without the need for an adapter.
The gas and electric utility company expects the deal to close before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.
The Stellantis and Samsung SDI joint venture will produce enough batteries to power 670,000 electric vehicles annually.
“Even though the Trump administration may not lift a finger to deliver on this plan, it sets a north star for what the U.S. should be aiming for,” said World Resources Institute’s Debbie Weyl.
Zeta Energy’s lithium-sulfur batteries do not require critical raw materials, such as cobalt, nickel manganese or graphite.