Redwood Materials

Meet Catalina Wilson, one of the interns spending the summer with us. She came to Redwood for hands-on accounting experience at a company building industrial infrastructure at scale. This summer she's been managing the lifecycle of our Property, Plant, and Equipment, connecting the dots between the equipment and facilities that power our production and how it shows up on our financial statements. In her words: "Redwood is always looking for solutions to how our world is growing, and I wanted to be part of that forward-thinking energy."

Energy demand is growing exponentially. Grid capacity is growing incrementally. Redwood is closing the gap with thousands of batteries that already exist, redeploying EV packs into new grid storage.

The U.S. grid is facing unprecedented energy demand, driven by AI data centers, industrial reshoring, and electrification. New transmission can take more than 10 years to permit and build. Battery storage closes that gap faster, at roughly half the cost of new systems, while keeping critical minerals in domestic supply chains. More than six million EVs have been sold in the U.S. over the past decade. Many of their battery packs are now entering a second phase of usefulness as energy storage for the grid. Learn more on how Redwood has been building toward this moment and is positioned to catch this wave of incoming batteries. https://lnkd.in/duXFj65w

Another intern spotlight this week! Carolina Silva is a Chemical Engineering student at MIT, spending her summer in Redwood's CAM R&D team developing a recycling process for spent cathode active material (CAM). Cathode active material is a complex, highly engineered component that drives most of a battery's performance, cost, and footprint and it contains the critical minerals, including lithium, nickel, and cobalt, that the battery depends on. Her reason for joining Redwood: closing the loop on battery materials to reduce U.S. dependence on imported minerals. When she's not in the lab, Carolina is reading, dancing, or hiking the trails around Lake Tahoe. Welcome, Carolina. 

We're excited to welcome Redwood's 2026 Intern Class. This cohort is embedded across our core technical disciplines: power electronics, chemistry, energy storage, and materials recovery. They get to work and learn alongside some of the top engineers in the industry building the U.S. supply chain for critical materials and the energy systems that will power data centers, grid infrastructure, and the next era of American industry. Welcome to Redwood. We're glad you're here. In the coming weeks, we'll be introducing some of this year's interns and the work they're doing across the business. Stay tuned.

Summer is in full swing, and our interns are hard at work. Meet Mohammad Mahinur Rahman, our Power Electronics Engineering intern from NC State who is diving into high-voltage DC-DC converter systems. He’s working on optimizing pack-level power electronics for more efficient power routing. The kind of hands-on, high-impact work that moves the needle on how we store and deliver energy at scale. What drew Mohammed to Redwood? Our approach to taking retired EV packs and transforming them into utility-scale storage, a direct bridge between deep technical work and building something that matters for the grid. We're glad to have you, and we can't wait to see what you build this summer. 

Building a domestic battery supply chain means working across the entire lifecycle. From automakers to gigafactories to large-scale energy storage, Redwood's partner network spans every stage: recovering end-of-life batteries, supplying domestically produced materials for new cell manufacturing, and deploying grid-scale storage for data-center applications. Securing critical materials. Strengthening energy dominance. Powering the next era of American industry.

Colorado’s EV battery recycling bill was signed into law, establishing the most comprehensive EV battery management framework in the U.S. At Redwood, we know that end-of-life EV batteries are not waste. They are valuable assets, whether for energy storage or critical mineral recovery. The framework prioritizes repurposing before recycling, supporting domestic energy storage deployment and extending the productive life of these assets. It establishes a clear recycler standard requiring actual extraction, separation, or refining of materials. It sets strong recovery standards with appropriate phase-in timelines, takes an outcome-based approach rather than banning specific technologies, and preserves direct manufacturer-recycler relationships rather than routing through a centralized stewardship organization designed for negative-value waste products. Redwood works across the full battery lifecycle, from second-life energy storage to material recovery, and we've been working on end-of-life policy diligently. As other states take up this topic, we're ready to be a resource for the partners and policymakers working to get this right. For more on what's in the law and how we're thinking about it: https://lnkd.in/g7KgqGjW

Today, we're announcing the latest chapter of our partnership with General Motors. Redwood will deploy 1.5 MW / 7.2 MWh of dispatchable energy storage at a GM manufacturing facility in Michigan, built from ~100 repurposed GM battery packs.     The U.S. holds a massive and growing stockpile of domestic battery assets. The question is whether those batteries stay here as American energy infrastructure or whether that value leaves the country. With this deployment, GM and Redwood are proving it can stay here.     This makes GM the first automaker to partner with Redwood across every stage of the battery lifecycle. Redwood already recycles manufacturing scrap from Ultium Cells LLC, GM's battery joint venture with LG Energy Solution, and receives GM EV packs for repurposing or recycling. This deployment puts those same packs back to work on the manufacturing floor. American-made batteries powering American industry, with critical minerals kept in domestic supply chains.     The full battery lifecycle managed domestically. From the manufacturing line to the road to the grid. https://lnkd.in/gYN3j_TF

We're in Houston at American Clean Power Association (ACP) Come find us at booth #3739 to see how Redwood Energy is deploying grid-scale energy storage built from domestic EV batteries.