July 19, 2012

Inside GE’s New Battery Factory




Inside GE’s New Battery Factory

High-tech ceramics are the key to making a new energy storage technology.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

To manufacture its new sodium-nickel batteries, which could be used to store power from wind turbines or help power remote cell-phone towers (see “GE’s NovelBattery to Bolster the Grid”), GE has opened a large factory in Schenectady, New York. Here’s a look inside it at some key steps in the manufacturing process.

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GE’s Novel Battery to Bolster the Grid