Your whiskey may soon be made with a huge ‘brick toaster’ battery

Written By Rondo Energy

Alcoholic drinks giant Diageo will replace natural gas-fired heat with Rondo Energy’s Heat Batteries at its production sites in Kentucky and Illinois.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the Diageo–Rondo Energy project up to $75 million. That money comes from the Biden administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. It’s part of the DOE’s $6 billion funding to decarbonize energy-intensive industries for 33 projects across 20 states.

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