As the Biden administration pushes massive investments in clean energy as part of a goal to reach net zero emissions by 2050, the White House wants the technology behind that energy to be homegrown. 

That’s a challenge that Lindsay Gorrill, CEO of Kore Power, is ready to tackle. Kore, which was founded in 2019, announced plans to build a battery cell factory in Buckeye, Ariz., 40 miles west of Phoenix, earlier this year. The company projects the factory will produce 12 GWh of total annual capacity by the end of 2023 and anchor what Gorrill hopes will become a grand-scale battery ecosystem in the Grand Canyon State.