WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn (SC-06) today celebrated the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) announcement of nearly $850 million for South Carolina to boost the domestic production of advanced batteries and battery materials nationwide, the largest investment in any state in the nation.
Batteries are critical to strengthening the U.S. grid, powering American homes and businesses, and supporting the electrification of the transportation sector. Administered by DOE’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), the selected projects will retrofit, expand, and build new domestic facilities for battery-grade processed critical minerals, battery components, battery manufacturing, and recycling.
“No one has brought more manufacturing jobs back home to American soil, and more specifically South Carolina, than the Biden-Harris administration. In positioning South Carolina as a leader in the battery manufacturing space, the Biden-Harris administration is connecting communities to opportunity throughout the state for generations to come as we continue our transition toward a clean energy economy,” said Congressman Clyburn.
Companies in the sixth Congressional district will receive at least $350 million of the total $848,679,760 investment. A complete list of projects in South Carolina are as follows:
| Company | Location | Project | Amount |
| SKI US, Inc. | Orangeburg, SC | Production of a next generation synthetic graphite domestic continuous production facility to meet the projected U.S. electric vehicle and energy storage market demand. | $150,000,000 |
| Cirba Solutions | Columbia, SC | A facility to recycle lithium-ion batteries obtained from electric vehicles (EVs), energy storage systems, end-of-life consumer materials, and manufacturing scrap from cell producers and automotive original equipment manufacturers. | $200,000,000 |
| Clarios Circular Solutions LLC | Florence, SC | Retrofit an existing Clarios facility to collocate scrap-to-CAM production with an annual output rate of 20,000 tons per year, supporting the battery requirements of approximately 200,000 EVs annually. | $150,000,000 |
| EnerSys Advanced Systems | Piedmont, SC | A new state-of-the-art 500,000 square foot lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facility with an initial production capacity of 5 gigawatt-hours (GWh) and an anticipated Start of Production in 2028. | $198,679,760 |
| American Battery Technology Company | South Carolina
(Exact location to be determined) |
Construct a new commercial scale lithium-ion battery recycling facility to process approximately 100,000 tons of battery materials per year from its battery manufacturer and automotive OEM partners. | $150,000,000 |
These grants were funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Congressman Clyburn was the sole House member in the South Carolina delegation to support it.
More information about the grants and MESC can be found here.
