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Pacific Northwest National Lab gets green light to design and build a $75M grid storage facility Geekwire 3/11/2021 Lisa Stiffler © Provided by Geekwire This is an early, conceptual rendering of what the Grid Storage Launchpad facility could look like on the PNNL campus in Richland, Wash. (Image courtesy of PNNL) The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will begin designing and building a $75 million facility in Eastern Washington that will help develop massive batteries for grid energy storage. On Wednesday, Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gave departmental approval of the project, allowing an initiative nearly two years in the works to start taking shape.

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