Fast tracking and energy transition that's made in America.

From American public media, this is Marketplace tech.

I'm Lily Dramale. A big part of Jennifer Granholm's job as U.S. Secretary of Energy involves selling President Biden's

clean energy agenda and convincing Americans that it's benefiting them.

Monday, she toured a facility in the Bay Area operated by Kueberg.

The company is developing a new lithium-based battery that's less flammable than the ones we use today

and was an early participant in an entrepreneurship program sponsored by the DOE.

Granholm told me projects like it are the building blocks of the administration's sweeping climate

policy.

We now have about 400 facilities that have announced they are expanding in the battery

and electric vehicle space alone in the United States.

So instead of building anodes or cathodes

or separator material in Nanjing, China,

we're building them.

I just came from Moses Lake Washington, which is a rural area in the state of Washington that has two new battery factories that they are hiring people for making the components for batteries.

It's so exciting to see this is happening all across the country and so people are being hired in forward facing jobs and careers all across the country as a result of these acts.

You mentioned China.

How much of this has to do with geopolitics?

Oh, I think a lot of it has to do with making sure that we are strong as a nation and you're

not strong if you're relying upon other countries

for your technology, for your energy future.

And so one of the, I think geniuses of this 21st century energy strategy, industrial strategy, is to really focus in the energy

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