Project Traits
State: South Carolina
Congressional District: SC01
Organization Type: Commercial
Partner Organization(s) Type: None or Unknown
Energy Sector: Transportation, Critical Minerals
Energy Subsector: EV Batteries,
Project Start Year: 2022
Project Launch Year: 2030
Government Support Received: Unknown
Outcomes & Impacts
Private Investment: $3,500,000,000
Jobs Announced or Created: 1,500
People Served: Unknown
Projected Economic Impact: $3,500,000,000
Redwood’s next Battery Materials Campus, in the heart of the “Battery Belt,” is just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. At Camp Hall in Berkeley County, Redwood will recycle, refine and manufacture anode and cathode components on more than 600 acres, creating more than 1,500 jobs and investing $3.5 billion in the local community. Eventually, this campus will produce 100 GWh of cathode and anode components per year –enough to power more than one million EVs. However, this site also provides us the opportunity to expand our operations to potentially several hundred GWh annually to meet future demand.
We plan to break ground on our Carolina Campus in Q1 2023 and have our first recycling process running by the end of next year. We will buildout downstream component manufacturing and scale, step-by-step.
Similar to our Nevada operations, Redwood’s South Carolina operations will be 100% electric and won’t use any fossil fuel in our processes (we will not even pull a gas line to the site). We will source only zero emission, clean energy and our innovative plant design and manufacturing process will allow us to reduce the CO2 emissions associated with producing these components by about 80% compared to the current Asia-based supply chain that we are dependent on for these crucial materials.