Times Union: Even with GE set-back, lots of promise with local
battery market
Published:
Sunday, June 28, 2015 - 09:26
Local startups look to tap into 'wearable' electronics market
Albany
The Capital Region's fledging renewable energy economy appeared to take a major hit back in January when General Electric Co. significantly dialed down production at its $170 million battery factory.
GE, which has kept a skeleton crew of about 50 workers at the four-year-old plant, said the move was just a matter of timing and that it hadn't anticipated how slowly the market for batteries designed for the electric grid would take to develop.
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SUNY Poly VP Pradeep Haldar, left, and BESS Tech's Fernando
Gomez-Baquero discuss battery technology in a SUNY Poly campus lab
at CNSE Tuesday June 23, 2015 in Albany, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale /
Times Union)[/caption]
By Larry Rulison Published 7:43 pm, Saturday, June 27, 2015
