Will advance workforce development in battery manufacturing industry
Jan 23, 2021
WARREN Youngstown State University will partner with the U.S. Department of Energy to advance workforce development efforts in the battery manufacturing and electric vehicle industry in northeast Ohio.
The $1 million project will help the development of a Midwest-based Energy Storage Workforce Innovation Center, but support the emerging tech industries “by helping supply a capable workforce” to the local region, according to an energy department release.
It’s being called a “much-anticipated pipeline” by U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Howland, for the industry that has come to define “Voltage Valley,” the nickname given here because of the tremendous investments in the electric vehicle industry.
The $1 million project will assist in the development of an Energy Storage Workforce Innovation Center, which will serve as a training center based in the Midwest.
Department of Energy Partners with Youngstown State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Support Battery Manufacturing Workforce
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it is partnering with Youngstown State University and DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance workforce development for the battery manufacturing industry. The $1 million project will assist in the development of an Energy Storage Workforce Innovation Center, which will serve as a training center based in the Midwest. The training center would support the battery and EV manufacturing industry in the North-East region of Ohio – referred to as “Voltage Valley” due to the number of investments made in the area by the electric vehicle industry – by helping supply a capable workforce.
Department of Energy Announces Tribal Grant Relief Due to COVID-19
BROWNING, MT – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary Mark W. Menezes announced the reduction of cost share obligations for financial assistance awards for Tribes and tribal communities struggling from the financial impacts of COVID-19. The Deputy Secretary made determinations on 28 cost-share reduction requests for pending or existing awards totaling more than $15.5 million in relief to Tribes or tribal entities across the contiguous 48 states and Alaska.
The Deputy Secretary also made determinations on requests from 20 potential applicants for Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (Office of Indian Energy) open Funding Opportunity Announcements totaling $5.6 million if selected and awarded, for a total of more than $21 million in relief. Additional pending determinations on requested reductions will further increase the total relief provided.
Yves here. Nuclear power as part of a low/no carbon energy future is a very contentious idea. Yet battery storage devices have their own environmental costs, and there are losses in moving energy into and out of them. In other words, there are no perfectly clean answers, save perhaps radical conservation, which peculiarly seems to be a verboten topic.
By Tsvetana Paraskova, a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing for news outlets such as iNVEZZ and SeeNews. Originally published at OilPrice
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