美利坚合众国进出口银行提供的5000万美元融资方案将使ESS能够扩大制造能力，实现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.
俄勒冈州威尔森维尔–2024年6月27日–ESS Tech，股份有限公司（ESS）（纽约证券交易所代码：GWH），一家领先的商业和公用事业级长期储能系统（LDES）制造商，今天宣布，美国进出口银行（EXIM）董事会根据“在美国做更多”倡议批准了5000万美元的融资计划。这笔融资将用于扩大ESS在俄勒冈州威尔逊维尔的生产能力，以满足全球对LDES快速增长的需求。ESS正在向欧洲、澳大利亚和非洲的客户提供铁系液流电池储能系统，提供能源弹性，并加快全球向清洁能源的过渡。
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.
进出口银行的“在美国制造更多”倡议于2022年启动，提供中长期贷款、贷款担保和保险，为出口导向的国内制造业项目提供资金。MMIA支持半导体、生物技术和生物医学产品、可再生能源和储能等领域的环保项目、小企业和转型出口交易，同时支持国内就业。与进出口银行的合作有望在威尔逊维尔和全国范围内带来经济效益。ESS 100%的产品在美国生产，利用横跨29个州的主要国内供应链，这将最大限度地提高该融资方案带来的经济效益。
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首席执行官Eric Dresselhuys表示：“我们与进出口银行的合作突显了美国制造的清洁能源技术将在全球清洁能源转型中发挥的关键作用。”。“ESS的铁系液流电池技术已经在澳大利亚和欧洲部署，通过这项协议，我们能够满足当前和未来全球客户日益增长的需求。”
“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.”
进出口银行批准的融资将使威尔逊维尔的年产能增加两倍。该倡议资助的新制造能力将基于ESS开发和完善的经验证的电池模块生产流程。
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.
“我们自豪地批准进出口银行的第四，在美国交易给小企业和储能制造商ESS，”Reta Jo Lewis主席说。“这笔交易将确保进出口银行继续履行我们的任务，支持对全球能源转型至关重要的技术，同时加强供应链，支持国内数百个高薪工作岗位。”作为铁系液流电池技术的领先商业制造商，ESS的LDES解决方案可缓解可再生间歇性，并使可再生能源成为基载能源。ESS铁系液流电池解决方案具有长达12小时的储能能力，可增强能源弹性和可靠性，确保即使基础设施老化、气候影响、位置或可再生能源供需波动，仍能持续提供电力。
“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宣布与尼日利亚综合能源公司Sapele Power建立合作关系，该公司代表尼日利亚和整个撒哈拉以南非洲地区的首批储能项目之一，部分资金由进出口银行提供。该交易因推动非洲投资和在整个非洲大陆创造新机会而获得进出口银行撒哈拉以南非洲年度交易奖。ESS还与全球能源和服务公司建立了合作伙伴关系，包括霍尼韦尔国际公司、德国能源公司LEAG，以及通过当地合作伙伴与澳大利亚发电商斯坦威尔公司等。
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.
