AFTER SECURING BINGHAMTON’S SPOT ON THE SHORTLIST FOR THE EDA’S POTENTIAL $100 MILLION REGIONAL CHALLENGE AWARD SCHUMER DOUBLES DOWN ON HIS EFFORT TO SECURE SOUTHERN TIER AS AMERICA’S NEXT MAJOR BATTERY RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING HUB
"We can become a national hub for battery innovation, manufacturing and workforce development," said M. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton's distinguished professor, researcher and 2019 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. "We know that, with initiatives like our BatteryNY and NENY programs and the technology initiatives put forth by Sen. Schumer in his USICA proposal, we can bring back manufacturing to the U.S., we can bring back jobs and we will help make the U.S. a global leader in battery storage technologies as well all types of advanced manufacturing again."
The senator said more than $7 billion in new investment to secure the domestic battery and materials supply chain, including $3 billion for battery material processing grants and
$3 billion for battery manufacturing and recycling grants bolstering companies like iM3NY which is a lithium-ion cell manufacturer building its first Gigafactory at the Huron Campus in Endicott, NY part of the former IBM campus.
Now, with a national spotlight on Binghamton as a rapidly growing battery research and manufacturing hub, the proposal for the exclusive Phase 2 award has been submitted. Phase 2, Schumer said,
will award 20-30 regional coalitions between $25 million and $100 million in grant funding for their project, if selected.
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