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Witnesses urge battery sector roadmaps, offtake and recycling to anchor clean-tech manufacturing in California
Summary
Experts at the Senate hearing said California risks exporting the manufacturing jobs tied to battery innovation and urged sector-specific roadmaps, coordinated state procurement or offtake agreements, and recycling capacity to anchor a domestic battery supply chain.
Panelists told the Select Committee that batteries present one of the clearest opportunities to align climate and industrial policy—but only if California addresses scale-up and demand risk.
Jake Higdon of California Forward said California often is the inventor and the market for technologies but misses the middle stage of scale-up. He pointed to U.S. Department of Energy grant allocations as evidence: "Of 67 grants totaling nearly…
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