A Georgia-based energy-storage manufacturer hopes its proposed Augusta plant will speed the production of some of the world’s largest batteries.
Stryten Energy in Alpharetta is asking the city’s perimssion to handle, store and process sulfuric acid on a portion of 3464 Mike Padgett Hwy. that it wants to rename the Southeast Energy Storage Park.
Stryten also is a finalist for a U.S. Department of Energy prize awarded to companies who can best accelerate the “domestic manufacturing of critical clean energy technology components,” according to the DOE.
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Stryten wants Augusta as the company’s new site to manufacture vanadium redox flow batteries. The batteries rely on high storage capacity to help run community power grids, meaning each battery often is the size of a small building.
As a pure metal, vanadium occurs rarely in nature, and China and Russia are the world’s leading vanadium producers. But many minerals contain vanadium oxides that U.S. factories such as Stryten use as catalysts to produce sulfuric acid.