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Stock jumps as Wilsonville battery maker ESS begins trading on Wall Street, reversing wobbly debut

ESS Tech, a small Wilsonville battery manufacturer, made an emphatic debut on Wall Street as a sudde

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The stock trades under the ticker symbol GWH (a nod to “gigawatt hour,” 1 billion watt hours of electricity).\nESS makes iron-based batteries that it says will enable clean electricity generators, like solar and wind farms, to store their energy. Energy storage for clean power is an essential element of any move away from fossil fuels.\nThe clean energy company had planned to raise $465 million by merging with a publicly traded investment fund, known as a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. But most of the SPAC’s investors opted out of the deal last week, choosing to cash out their shares instead.\nThe result was that ESS raised just $308 million in Monday’s deal. That’s still a hefty sum for a small company, which employs only 165, but had suggested investors were glum about ESS’ prospects.\nTrading started off slow Monday morning, with the stock edging up around 2%. 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The explosive growth the Wilsonville company has promised to investors, though, is far from assured.\nESS is still proving out demand for its products. The company forecasts just $2 million in sales this year but projects revenue will leap to $37 million next year, $300 million in 2023 and an astronomical $3.6 billion in 2027.\nThat’s all speculation at this point. Most small companies with soaring ambitions pitch bullish forecasts to venture capitalists or other large, private investors.\nBut SPACs have given young companies a path to pursue their lofty dreams on the public markets.\nHere’s how SPACs work: Investors pool their money in a blank-check fund, the SPAC, and obtain a listing on a Wall Street exchange. The SPAC then merges with a private business, providing investment capital and a ready-made stock listing to the business.\nESS combined with a SPAC called ACON S2 Acquisition Corp. 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