Electrical car battery startup Our Subsequent Vitality will provide its new vitality storage merchandise to a $500 million Berkshire Hathaway Vitality solar-powered manufacturing hub in West Virginia.

It is going to additionally open a manufacturing unit to construct the methods on the industrial advanced.

BHE Renewables chosen the Novi, Mich., battery firm to assist provide energy to the two,000-acre solar-powered industrial web site in Ravenswood, W.Va., the corporate mentioned. The advanced broke floor on Saturday.

BHE will make the most of ONE’s new Aries Grid vitality storage models, which can retailer solar-generated electrical energy throughout the day to be used on the location at night time. The models will assist energy the location’s first manufacturing unit, a Precision Castparts Corp. plant that can assemble titanium merchandise for the aerospace business.

The Aries Grid makes use of the identical lithium iron phosphate battery know-how that the corporate employs for electrical business autos. One Aries Grid unit incorporates 78 Aries I EV battery packs, and might retailer vitality from the grid or from renewable sources comparable to photo voltaic or wind.

ONE additionally plans to construct a manufacturing unit on the Berkshire Hathaway web site to assemble extra battery storage methods. The corporate mentioned it will make investments $22 million to construct the brand new Aries Grid manufacturing unit, which is predicted to open in 2025 and generate 105 jobs.

That is the primary main venture for ONE’s Aries Grid enterprise unit, which launched in February. ONE has excessive hopes for the enterprise as the marketplace for vitality storage options grows, CEO Mujeeb Ijaz instructed Automotive Information’ sibling publication Crain’s Detroit Enterprise final month.

“In our enterprise discussions with utility clients, we are able to double our firm’s income projections by taking over this new vertical,” Ijaz mentioned. “This has been part of our marketing strategy all alongside.”

Ijaz instructed Crain’s Detroit Enterprise that he sees the vertical accounting for 20 to 25 % of the corporate’s total enterprise as soon as it scales up.

ONE has additionally continued to put money into its EV battery enterprise, together with plans for a $1.6 billion EV battery cell plant that it expects to open in Michigan subsequent 12 months. To assist fund that venture, it raised $300 million in a collection B funding spherical in February, bringing the corporate’s valuation to $1.2 billion.