Area tech companies receive fed grants
Sila Nanotechnologies co-founder and CEO Gene Berdichevsky in photos taken inside the 600,000-square-foot building the company recently bought on Road N NE and intends to turn into its Moses Lake production facility. With federal grant funding, the company intends to work on developing advanced battery technologies.
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The old Xyleco building at 3741 Road N NE in Moses Lake. Alameda, California-based Sila Nanotechnologies bought the building in April and has received a $100 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help convert it into a production facility for silicon-based anodes for rechargeable batteries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Energy announced last week that Sila Nanotechnologies and Group14 Technologies will each receive $100 million grants to build silicon battery manufacturing facilities in Moses Lake under a program established as part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by Congress in 2021.
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