Who is Aquion Energy?

Aquion Energy was a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. -based company that manufactured sodium ion batteries ( salt water batteries) and electricity storage systems.

What is Aquion?

Aquion is one of the most innovative new Renewable Energy Companies that has been the furthest along among emerging energy storage companies offering new battery technologies.

What is the Aquion battery system?

The Aquion battery system is a reliable and flexible modular energy storage solution that optimizes existing generation assets and enables broad adoption of renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar, as well as reduced reliance on fossil fuels, and optimization of existing grid-tied generation assets.

What happened to Aquion Energy?

In March 2017, Aquion Energy filed for voluntary bankruptcy under Chapter 11. In June 2017, bidding starting with a stalking horse offer of $2.8 million from an Austrian battery firm, BlueSky Energy.

When did Aquion Energy become a chemistry?

Aquion Energy was spun out from CMU in late 2009 after the first-generation version of the AHI chemistry was developed in the labs at CMU in 2008 by Dr. Whitacre, who graduated from Oberlin College in 1994 with a BA in Physics.

When did Aquion Energy start production?

Under the leadership of CEO Scott Pearson, Aquion began low volume production in the summer of 2011 and broke ground on a full-scale manufacturing facility in nearby Westmoreland, PA in 2012.