Tim De ChantThu, Jun 12, 2025, 5:28 PM 1 min readImage Credits:PowinBattery manufacturer Powin filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. The Oregon-based company said it has more than $300 million in debt.The Chapter 11 filing will let the company continue operating while it restructures its debt.Powin manufactured grid-scale batteries using lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cells from China. The company had been searching for alternative domestic suppliers, but the supply chain wasn’t sufficiently mature, Jeff Waters, the company’s former CEO, told Bloomberg in April.The company laid off nearly 250 employees earlier this month, and just 85 remain, less than a fifth of what it started the year with. Alongside the bankruptcy filing, Waters was replaced by Brian Krane, Powin’s chief projects officer.Powin was a survivor of the first clean tech boom over a decade ago. The company was taken private in 2018, and it received $135 million in growth equity in 2022 from investors, including Energy Impact Partners, GIC, and Trilantic Energy Partners. More recently, it secured a $200 million revolving credit facility from KKR.In recent years, Powin has grown alongside the boom in grid-scale battery storage, ranked third in the U.S. in terms of installed capacity and fourth worldwide. The company did not say what spurred the sudden rise in debt, though given its reliance on Chinese LFP cells, tariffs may have played a roll.Terms and Privacy PolicyPrivacy & Cookie SettingsMore InfoS&P 5005,976.97 -68.29 (-1.13%)Dow 3042,197.79 -769.83 (-1.79%)Nasdaq19,406.83 -255.66 (-1.30%)Russell 20002,100.51 -39.59 (-1.85%)VIX20.82 +2.80 (+15.54%)Gold3,452.60 +50.20 (+1.48%)PortfolioSign in to access your portfolioSign inTop gainersRUN Sunrun Inc. 10.00 +1.53 (+18.06%)SSL Sasol Limited 5.45 +0.60 (+12.37%)DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. 36.01 +3.02 (+9.15%)BHC Bausch Health Companies Inc. 5.98 +0.47 (+8.53%)ORCL Oracle Corporation 215.22 +15.36 (+7.69%)Top losersVEON VEON Ltd. 38.27 -8.74 (-18.59%)ACHR Archer Aviation Inc. 9.99 -1.74 (-14.83%)DAVE Dave Inc. 208.24 -30.01 (-12.60%)APLD Applied Digital Corporation 11.18 -1.33 (-10.63%)NEGG Newegg Commerce, Inc. 9.36 -1.06 (-10.17%)Most activeNVDA NVIDIA Corporation 141.97 -3.03 (-2.09%)TSLA Tesla, Inc. 325.31 +6.20 (+1.94%)ACHR Archer Aviation Inc. 9.99 -1.74 (-14.83%)LCID Lucid Group, Inc. 2.1000 -0.0600 (-2.78%)PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. 137.40 +2.21 (+1.63%)Earnings eventsTrending tickersAIRO AIRO Group Holdings, Inc. Common Stock 24.00 +14.00 (+140.00%)V Visa Inc. 352.85 -18.55 (-4.99%)CL=F Crude Oil Jul 25 73.18 +5.14 (+7.55%)CRCL Circle Internet Group 133.56 +27.02 (+25.36%)ACHR Archer Aviation Inc. 9.99 -1.74 (-14.83%)Top economic eventsPowered by Money.com - Yahoo may earn commission from the links above.