Ohio electric utilities company FirstEnergy is currently in the process of setting up a new transmission substation in Trumbull County that will provide electric service to the Ultium Cells LLC plant in nearby Lordstown.
The Ultium Cells LLC plant, which is currently under construction, will span more than 3 million square feet when finished and will be the main production site for the lithium-ion battery cells that will be used in General Motors’ proprietary Ultium vehicle batteries. Ultium Cells LLC is a joint venture between GM and Korean battery manufacturer LG Chem.
Under construction Ultium Cells LLC plant in Ohio
In addition to providing power to the large Ultium Cells LLC plant, FirstEnergy says the new transmission infrastructure will “strengthen the regional transmission system and benefit more than 15,000 Ohio Edison customers in Lordstown and neighboring communities,” giving them a more robust energy grid to rely on.
A GM Ultium battery pack
FirstEnergy will also construct another new high-voltage line in Lordstown in April to further accommodate Ultium Cells’ projected future energy needs and provide more reliability enhancements for its local residential and commercial customers.
“With the EV industry bringing new employment and business development opportunities to the Mahoning Valley, FirstEnergy and Ohio Edison are keeping pace by upgrading our system to meet the growing demand for safe and reliable power,” said Ed Shuttleworth, the regional president for Ohio Edison and Penn Power. “This is an exciting time for EV development in our region and the entire country, and we’re proud to support work to help advance this industry while strengthening our system for customers in the area.”
Lordstown Endurance pickup
The state of Ohio has become a hotspot for electric vehicle production in recent months. In addition to the Ultium Cells plant, Lordstown Motors is also preparing to start production of its Endurance fleet EV pickup at the former GM Lordstown Assembly plant later this year. Lordstown Motors has already received more than 100,000 non-binding pre-orders for the vehicle, which will enter production in September.
“FirstEnergy and Ohio Edison continue to play a key role in the region’s development by working to ensure the local power grid is ready to support the demands of other energy-intensive customers in the county including Lordstown Motors Corp,” the company said in a release.
The Ultium Cells LLC plant will create more than 1,100 jobs in the Northeast Ohio region once construction is complete. GM has not said when it expects the battery plant to be fully operational.
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This is going to overload the grid.
HAHAHA!
Like one factory is going to make any real dent in anything……. My area (Western NY State) would DIE for either of those factories because of the jobs they generate, since WEALTH IS CREATED ON THE FACTORY FLOOR.
At least half a dozen LARGE factories in my area have moved to China and Japan over my lifetime….. The young people NEED these.
In my area, they’ve closed all the Coal power plants, and the area STILL has excess electricity there is nothing to do with since the factories are no more…. Electric cars SOLVE problems they don’t create them. We need electric cars and we need factories actually MAKING something useful to use it up.
The grid is being extended and strenghened:
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Ohio electric utilities company FirstEnergy is currently in the process of setting up a new transmission substation in Trumbull County that will provide electric service to the Ultium Cells LLC plant in nearby Lordstown.
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Over the next 15 years sub stations will pop up like cell towers.
The electric companies see a big increase in business and income.
EMFs will cause more cancer then we’ve ever had from “smoking”.
Put your foil hat on and magic jock strap and you will be fine.
Dont forget your space laser protection suit !
Too bad you father did not use protection…..
You are a tiny d1cked prick !
Does your wife need me to come over again to get her off ?
You old, fat, bald, boomer !
If you’re worried I bet your Faraday cage of a basement will protect you.
I agree, the grid in some locations will take a hit.
I say GOOD !
It is OLD !!!!!!
It is OUT OF DATE !!!!!
And JUST LIKE the DO NOTHING R3publicans in government, IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED !!!
UPDATED !!
Our WHOLE COUNTRY NEEDS AN UPDATE !!!!!!
It is obvious !
There are VERY FEW AMERICANS that do NOT think the US interior is falling apart !
The corporate pigs, like GM were let to take and leave it lesser then when they started !
If its not our governments job, from the local to the federal level, to make sure corporate pigs do not ruin this country stii and again, what is their roll ?
I can’t believe how little people know about these things: the ‘grid’ is being constantly modernized, and its only stupid policies that cause problems.
California can’t keep the lights on – but other states where they have half a brain keep them on.
Bill Howland,
I do know about these things ! That is social media for you, you never know who is on the other end !
But you said it best !
You said ” stupid policies cause the problems ”
Can you elaborate on the ones you are talking about ?
I have personally ran up against many, in my R3publican state of South Dakota !
ANYTHING progressively better, goes nowhere in our state !!
And our legislature is against most as someone would have to spend money to make it better. As they all go straight home to their farms and buy new tractors !! I wonder, why don’t they farm with horses any longer ?
Lifelong GM owner :
Certainly…. As for me, I currently own 3 plug in vehicles, a 2019 Chevy Volt, a 2017 Chevy Bolt ev, and a 2014 Caddy ELR.
I will probably always buy a vehicle that has a plug in capability from now on, but that is just me…. I will also probably have at least one vehicle that can run on gasoline or diesel in a pinch ( 2 of the 3 currently do that, but soon enough it will probably be just 1 of 3 – I like having internal combustion backup) – besides all the Convenience Store employees after all need to sell SOME gasoline – and as I’ve stated before, OIL is what makes modern affluent societies possible. We need a petrochemical industry for modern materials, and modern cracking towers can change the amount of gasoline produced by a few percent, but there will always be roughly half of the product as gasoline and Cars, Trucks and other motor vehicles are a FINE WAY to efficiently, cleanly and productively use an other wise WASTE product. 120 years ago they threw the useless gasoline in the River or Lake. Much more sustainable and environmentally responsible to cleanly burn it.
I THOUGHT I was going to run my electric cars on 100% AMERICAN MINED Coal – in which a large, modern coal plant removes 98-99% of the Sulfur Dioxide, and 90% of the Mercury, and the only real effluent is sent immediately by the Coal plant that used to run 24/7/365 in my town to a local Dry Wall Factory – so as long as they are building and remodeling homes and office buildings the process is 100% sustainable. But brain-dead NY State Gov’t has banned ALL OF THEM ! We actually don’t need them since almost all the factories needing large electricity supply have been sent to Japan and China.
As a Carbon-Based Organism myself, I loved the fact that the power plant (at one time the largest in the world) made so many TONS of Carbon Dioxide, or Food for all the Plants – it being a Building Block of Life – and the plants releasing Oxygen – a second building block of life.
As far as the non-sensical (other than those who become millionaires over Credits Sales) Climate Change (the latest Paris Accords will make all the Senators and Congressmen rich with the kicked-backed “Carbon Credits”), any serious Scientific investigation will tell you the Earth overall is getting Colder as time progresses…. Sweden just released a study showing the Climate in Sweden has been essentially unchanged long term over the past 200 years.
The question people should be asking, is not if there is ‘too much CO2’, but if the current starvation level of atmospheric CO2 of around 600 part-per-million is making it too difficult for plants in general to remain healthy?
More generally – California has been in a super-big-hurry to convert to Solar panels, but they don’t like unsightly wind mills that much….
The problem is they have gone on this carbon nonsense train for long enough that they have rid themselves of 24/7/365 baseload plants that produce consistent electricity, and they don’t have enough storage battery facilities currently built to handle 5 – 9 pm in the hot August summers. They have GOBS of electricity they can’t do anything with in the early morning…. They need to use some foresight and have some battery storage buildings to productively utilize that excess for later in the day.
Then they refuse to properly manage their forest growth (something places like even Liberal Europe is expert at), so the end result is that they have excessively huge forest fires, and don’t even provide a fire-break for their High-Tension transmission line routes.
So either the poorly managed rights-of-way actually cause the fires, or else they constantly turn the lights on and off during the summer in fear of starting another one…. Geniuses.
Neighboring states, such as Arizona (with the country’s largest Nuclear Complex) provides much of the electricity for Southern California. This is not a brief for Nuclear Power in general – I’m just saying that in general California is being partially bailed out of their idiocy by neighboring States.
If you want to see real Mayhem just have Californians get mad at Arizona again and have them sever the interstate high-tension lines to the plant during the hot summertime.
Texas has done a good job with their grid. It can be done we just have to look at the successes and try to replicate them.
I see one of your hero s Lou Dobbs is moving on !
He bought a space laser protection suit from me yesterday !
Better get one while you still can, they are going fast !
I bet you will see him on News Max and parlor !
Lou will join you the next time you storm the capital, the pillar of the American man that he is !
If you think GM is pushing BEVs because they are trying to make the world a better place then you are a bit naive. Mary and lowercase gm are pushing BEVs solely because they are higher profits than ICE counterparts.
Are BEVs better for the environment long term? I’m not sure, ask the strip mining companies in Africa and the recycling companies in China how much fossil fuel and water they use.
I agree h4cksaw,
gm is a show me the money company !
gm could care less about any one or any thing except the share holder !
However, if humans could start over at this point in time, the EV would out weigh the ICE by FAR !
Humans TODAY would build smart grids to shift power where needed as produced by wind and sun !
Sure the mining is bad, yet so is the coal strip mining, oil drilling, oil spills, and just so much of the human Earth rape !
The oil drilling alone, the trucking alone, the road usage alone just on gas and oil, is bad.
Its like you oil pipeline lovers here, an EV being charged by a wire is just like a pipeline form the oil well straight in the gas tank of your car.
And take that a step farther, if you produce your own electricity, like myself, I can now drive a vehicle for free, other than tires. Can you tell me how to do that with an ICE vehicle ?
Sure things will have to change, but things NEED TO CHANGE !!
The stock market is screwed up, taxes are screwed up, pay is screwed up, things in America are just screwed up !!
the money is all on its way to the top, and that simply will never work, as the top is doing NOTHING with it !!
I am OK with the money going to the top, IF the top DID SOMETHING with it !
I believe we are witnessing a psychotic break. Live and on the internet. Fascinating
I just love it !
WOW the people in the world today !
The new r3publican moto,
“There is ALWAYS someone or something to blame other than us ”
So the new Tr^mp god/king party sits around and brainstorms -ok-ok-ok-ok
so after hours of thinking with all of that brain power a single light bulb comes on ( incandescent of course )” I got it”, came from all the brain power, ” it was the J3wish space lasers ”
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha !
Just like all those R3publicans who quit watching football, Ha, Ha, Ha, now for some reason care about a football Ad !
Cant fix stupid !!
Ive been trying to help out my friend C8.R for a couple years now. He is just so sad his d1ck is so small. He has been having such a hard time satisfying his wife !
I have been saying, i think its those space lasers again, they are to blame for his tiny d1ck !
The reality is the auto industry was dying and in some cases still is. Development cost are crazy and is killing a number of mfg’s.
The way out is lower cost over the run with electronics. Less parts, no emissions development and no mpg to worry about.
Just tweaking and improvements battery and motor tech. Less parts needed.
Electronics once cost are recovered become very cheap.
Tech is where the money is and regulation is forcing the auto industry there. Not leaving a carbon foot print is good marketing but not the truth.
Same in politics they claim to be green but like John Kerry brings his message of environmental concerns he has not gone green himself. With his money that he makes as like Gore why would he.
One of the only true environmentalist that I believe and trust is Ed Begly Jr. The actor lives what he preaches. Anyone who rides a bike in LA is a true committed person. Most of the rest are just lying people making money on the carbon market.