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Bowen launches new Sydney battery facility 

AUSTRALIA has a new battery manufacturing facility in New South Wales that can produce a type of small scale battery that can last for six to 12 hours. 

  L-R: Hon Chris Bowen MP, Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy & Member for McMahon; Hon Ed Husic MP, Federal Minister for Industry & Science & Member for Chifley; Gelion Founder, NED & Principal Technology Advisor Prof Thomas Maschmeyer; Gelion CEO Hannah McCaughey; and Ziyad Zalda, mechanical engineer at Battery Energy.

L-R: Hon Chris Bowen MP, Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy & Member for McMahon; Hon Ed Husic MP, Federal Minister for Industry & Science & Member for Chifley; Gelion Founder, NED & Principal Technology Advisor Prof Thomas Maschmeyer; Gelion CEO Hannah McCaughey; and Ziyad Zalda, mechanical engineer at Battery Energy.

The facility currently has nameplate manufacturing capability of 2 megawatt hours of batteries per annum but AIM-listed Gelion plans to scale this up to gigawatt level, it said today.    The western...

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