key people ceo scott pearson 1 cto jay whitacre products aqueous hybrid ion ahi battery website aquionenergy.com aquion energy is a pittsburgh based company that manufactures sodium ion batteries and energy storage systems . the company claims to provide a low cost way to store large amounts of energy e.g. for an electricity grid through thousands of battery cycles and a non toxic end product made from widely available material inputs and which operates safely and reliably across a wide range of temperatures and operating environments . 2 an individual battery stack was expected to store 1.5 kwh a pallet sized unit 180 kwh and a shipping container size box holds 2.88 mwh . 3 4 the battery can not overheat . 5 the company expects its products to last for more than 3 000 charge discharge cycles while retaining 80 % of capacity 6 twice as long as lead acid batteries . costs are expected to be about the same as with lead acid . 7 8 contents 1 history 2 technology 3 production 4 key personnel 4.1 jay whitacre 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit the company was founded in 2008 by jay whitacre a professor at carnegie mellon university and ted wiley . they set up research and development offices in lawrenceville where it produced pilot stage batteries . the company claims to have raised funding from kleiner perkins foundation capital bill gates nick and jobey pritzker bright capital and advanced technology ventures among others . 9 in october 2014 they announced a new generation 10 with a single stack reaching 2.4 kwh and a multi stack module holding 25.5 kwh . 11 in 2015 the company announced that it would supply batteries for a hawaii microgrid to serve as backup for a 176 kilowatt solar panel array . the system will store 1 000 kilowatt hours of electricity . 12 in april 2015 they announced they have been cradle to cradle certified . 13 to bronze level 14 it was also reported they were reducing headcount . 15 in september 15 whitacre won the lemelson mit prize 16 technology edit main article sodium ion battery the battery materials are non toxic . 17 as of early 2014 the cathode used manganese oxide and relies on intercalation reactions . the anode was a titanium phosphate nati2 po4 3 . 18 the electrolyte was 5m naclo4 . 19 a synthetic cotton separator was reported . 20 the electrode layers were an unusually thick 2 mm which reduces power density . the device used siemens power inverter technology . 21 production edit the company set up manufacturing facilities at a former sony television assembly plant in east huntingdon 22 initially proposing a capacity of 500 megawatt hours per year in 2013 and 2014 . 23 in march 2014 they announced that commercial shipments of batteries would begin in mid 2014 24 and in may 2014 announced they had shipped 100 units . 25 key personnel edit jay whitacre edit dr. jay f. whitacre received a ba in physics from oberlin college and a phd in materials science from the university of michigan . he held various positions at caltech as a postdoctoral scholar at jpl and the jet propulsion laboratory studying energy related topics ranging from fundamental materials function to systems engineering . in 2007 he accepted a professorship at carnegie mellon . 26 27 see also edit saltwater battery references edit grid energy storage management team . aquion energy . retrieved 2014 04 27 . technology . aquion . retrieved 2014 07 26 . martin lamonica 2011 07 22 . aquion energy takes plunge into bulk grid storage . news.cnet.com . retrieved 2013 10 28 . aquionenergy.com 2013 10 28 . grid scale batteries . aquionenergy.com . retrieved 2013 10 28 . bogo jennifer ; gertz emily december 2014 . clean cheap energy storage . popular science . 285 6 026 . retrieved 26 december 2014 . it s nontoxic low cost and modular and it can t overheat . aquion technical presentation pdf . aquion energy . aquion energy . 2014 . retrieved february 2015 . check date values in access date help kevin bullis 18 february 2014 . storing the sun . mit technology review . kevin bullis 14 november 2014 . a battery to prop up renewable power hits the market . mit technology review . aquion energy announces 35 million financing round to support commercialization and launch of novel energy storage systems . marketwatch . retrieved 2013 10 23 . katie fehrenbacher . startup aquion energy shows off the next generation of its battery for solar and the grid . gigaom.com . aquion energy reveals second gen ahi battery technology 40 % increase in energy . cleantechnica . bullis kevin january 8 2015 . grid batteries for wind solar find first customers . technology review . retrieved february 2015 . check date values in access date help hanley steve . aquion energy aqueous hybrid ion battery is cradle to cradle certified . cleantechnica . cleantechnica . retrieved 29 april 2015 . eco business . wenergy global wins bid to light up bicycle track around bangkok international airport . eco business . coyne justine . aquion energy cuts jobs in pittsburgh . pittsburgh business times . pittsburgh business times . retrieved 30 april 2015 . smit deb . cmu s jay whitacre wins the lemelson mit prize for his incredible edible nontoxic battery . next pittsburgh . retrieved 16 september 2015 . reinterpreting the process of innovation jay whitacre at tedxcmu 2012 . ted . retrieved 2013 10 28 . whitacre j. f. ; shanbhag s. ; mohamed a. ; polonsky a. ; carlisle k. ; gulakowski j. ; wu w. ; smith c. ; cooney l. 2015 01 01 . a polyionic large format energy storage device using an aqueous electrolyte and thick format composite nati2 po4 3 activated carbon negative electrodes . energy technology . 3 1 20 31 . doi 10.1002 ente .201402127 . issn 2194 4296 . wu wei ; shabhag sneha ; chang jiang ; rutt ann ; whitacre jay f. 2015 . relating electrolyte concentration to performance and stability for nati2 po4 3 na0 .44 mno2 aqueous sodium ion batteries pdf . journal of the electrochemical society . 162 6 a803 a808 . doi 10.1149 2.0121506 jes . cite whitacre j. ; shanbhag s. ; mohamed a. ; polonsky a. ; carlisle k. ; gulakowski j. ; wu w. ; smith c. ; cooney l. ; blackwood d. a polyionic large format energy storage device using an aqueous electrolyte and thick format composite nati2 po4 3 activated carbon negative electrodes . energy technology 2015 3 20 31 . a new power grid battery emerges with a deal from siemens tech . aquion chooses sony site for battery plant . pittsburghlive.com . 2012 02 22 . retrieved 2013 10 28 . aquion energy s disruptive battery tech picks up 35m in vc . greentech media . 2013 04 02 . retrieved 2013 10 23 . doom justin 2014 03 19 . aquion to begin commercial battery shipments this year ceo says . businessweek . retrieved 2014 04 27 . aquion gearing up for battery production . pittsburgh post gazette . dr jay whitacre . the battery show . retrieved 2014 06 23 . jay whitacre google scholar citations . scholar.google.co.uk . retrieved 2014 04 27 . external links edit official website us application 20110052945 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aquion energy & oldid 743626511 categories grid energy storagecompanies based in pittsburghhidden categories cs1 errors dates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 13 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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