Fluence Energy has started production at a new manufacturing facility in Goodyear, Arizona, that will produce enclosures made with U.S. steel and battery management system (BMS) hardware for Fluence’s grid-scale energy storage systems.
The company is ramping up the use of domestic manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Texas, Tennessee and Utah that supply cells, modules, enclosures, thermal management systems and battery management systems, in addition to Fluence’s domestic inverter supplier, which manufactures in South Carolina. These manufacturing partnerships represent approximately $700 million in investment and more than 1,200 manufacturing jobs, along with 450 construction jobs, in calendar year 2025 alone, with that number expected to quickly grow.
“By rapidly expanding our access to U.S. manufacturing, we’re helping our customers navigate complex global supply chain risks while reinforcing our commitment to delivering safe, reliable, and cybersecure energy storage systems at scale,” said John Zahurancik, president of Fluence Americas. “Enclosure and BMS production at the Goodyear facility is another strong step forward in this commitment.”
“Our goal is to fully onshore production, as quickly as possible, to be able to serve the entirety of our U.S. demand with products and components manufactured in the United States,” said Fluence Chief Product and Supply Chain Officer Peter Williams. “This facility brings us closer to that goal, which is to enable our customers to benefit from secure, reliable, and domestically produced energy storage solutions.”
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“Our goal is to fully onshore production, as quickly as possible, to be able to serve the entirety of our U.S. demand with products and components manufactured in the United States,” said Fluence Chief Product and Supply Chain Officer Peter Williams. “This facility brings us closer to that goal, which is to enable our customers to benefit from secure, reliable, and domestically produced energy storage solutions.”
I noticed steel and other materials are U.S. supply chain developed, as is the domestic inverter supply which is not clear to me, where those components come from. It seems Fluence and their “smartstack” ESS is still an EPC design that could also rely on foreign supply chains for components and may or may not qualify for the X45 manufacturing subsidy. This is quickly becoming a three legged race with two clumsy cousins as partners. The Balance of Materials is becoming a mixed bag creating opportunities to use foreign components in foreign country EPC systems or U.S. based and supplied system for the U.S. market and any country without a tariff on U.S. goods. Is there such a thing at this time?
“Our goal is to fully onshore production, as quickly as possible, to be able to serve the entirety of our U.S. demand with products and components manufactured in the United States,” said Fluence Chief Product and Supply Chain Officer Peter Williams.”
Perhaps the question to ask is this political posturing and after 2028 Fluence will go to China for their “smartstack” to use Huawei Inverters and CATL battery cells for the “International Fluence skid mount system power block”?