The plans for the Weirton manufacturing plant are still to be shared, although it will be acquired from The Frontier Group of Cos., which owns the 55 acres at the Frontier Crossings Business Park through its Mingo Junction Steelworks LLC subsidiary. The company told the Business Times there are 50 open positions at the Eighty Four site and more openings will be available in the new year. The company’s advanced manufacturing operation, in Eighty Four, Washington County, will continue to be operational for the foreseeable future. Weirton will be the site of Form Energy’s first commercial battery production site. West Virginia is committing up to $290 million in financing to the project, including $75 million by the West Virginia Economic Development Authority to purchase the land and to help with construction.įorm Energy told the Business Times it would have a mixture of existing and new construction for the site. Jaramillo said the search took a year, and he credited West Virginia’s pro-business attitude, along with its commitment to workforce development, as prime reasons why the company is putting the plant in Weirton. “It became abundantly clear that Weirton, West Virginia, a historic steel community that sits on a river and has the rich heritage, raw infrastructure and know-how to make great things out of iron, would be the ideal location for our first commercial battery production facility,” said Mateo Jaramillo, who is CEO and co-founder of Form Energy. That will likely be a vanguard in the transition to a lower-carbon energy future.įorm Energy, which has an advanced manufacturing plant in Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, said it looked at 500 initial locations in 16 states before it settled upon the site. Weirton’s change agent is Form Energy, a Somerville, Massachusetts-based sustainable battery manufacturer that is poised to do large-scale building of the multi-day batteries that will store electricity generated by renewable sources like wind and solar. Jim Justice, who promised that the Form Energy announcement would “change forever more” Weirton’s trajectory. That was alluded to by West Virginia Gov. Weirton, like a lot of steel towns in Appalachia, has seen better days.
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