Ashlawn Energy's VanCharg vanadium redox flow battery was recently acknowledged by President Barack Obama as "One of the coolest things he has ever said out loud" at Cleveland State University on Feb. 22.
Developed and produced at Northeast Ohio for the City of Painesville's Energy Storage Demonstration Project under a matching Department of Energy Smart Grid Award, the battery increases output by storing a portion of the electricity produced. It represents transformational technology that seeks to modernize the electric grid and potentially create hundreds of high-tech jobs in Northeast Ohio.
"Ashlawn Energy ... provides multi-megawatt energy storage solutions using vanadium redox fuel cells,” said Obama. “That's one of the coolest things I've ever said out loud ... With help of an award from the Department of Energy's Smart Grid Program, Ashlawn Energy is poised to manufacture a next-generation energy storage system in Painesville that will improve efficiency. It will help families and businesses cut down on energy waste, save money and reduce dangerous carbon pollution. And they're also retraining local workers with the skills necessary to manufacture new components."
NorTech and Crain's Cleveland Business recently awarded Ashlawn Energy NorTech's prestigious Advanced Energy Innovation Award, recognizing their progress developing energy storage for Painesville, Ohio. The award was presented on Feb. 24.
"We appreciated being recognized by the President and by our peers in Northeast Ohio,” said Norma Byron, president of Ashlawn Energy, in a press release. “We have an exciting vision to modernize the U.S. power grid with help from the department of energy and the Ohio manufacturing base. We are committed to creating high-tech manufacturing jobs and the engineering talent and generations of manufacturing experience in the northeast Ohio area are key to the success of this effort"
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Edited by Tammy Wolf
