Cal Lankton named Chief Operating Officer at Redwood Materials

Today's demand for power - from AI infrastructure, from industry, from the grid - is growing faster than conventional energy systems were built to handle. Grid connections take years. The power electronics stack that most providers depend on is expensive, slow to procure, and architecturally mismatched to the load profiles AI data centers actually create. The companies that will win this decade are the ones that can deliver power where it is needed, when it is needed, without waiting for infrastructure that is not coming fast enough. 

At Redwood we're building to that standard. We have already deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world and the largest microgrid in North America - a 12 MW / 63 MWh system built in four months on our Nevada campus, powered by our own proprietary power electronics, control software, and systems architecture engineered in-house to integrate any battery pack, regardless of chemistry, into a single flexible storage system. That system has run at 99.2 percent uptime. We are now deploying projects more than ten times that size, with a pipeline of gigawatt-hours underway. 

Cal has been part of Redwood since its earliest days, helping to build the commercial and business teams from the ground up. He has earned a reputation taking ambitious plans and turning them into results on the ground, on time, at scale.  

Now, as Chief Operating Officer, Cal will drive the build-out of our Energy offering at the aggressive pace our customers need, as well as operations across recycling and refining. The ability to deploy at scale comes from the same discipline of rigor, speed and clarity of execution that built Redwood's foundational recycling and refining business. 

Congratulations to Cal on a well-earned role, and welcome to this next chapter.