Hartford Business Journal

15 HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM | MAY 31, 2021 Wittmann Battenfeld, Torrington, CT Napoli Retail, Southington, CT Nufern, East Granby, CT Windsor Marketing Group (WMG), Suffield, CT The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT Since 1942, The Single Source Construction Firm Since 1942, our goal has been simple: To provide our clients with complete design, planning and construction services for commercial, industrial and retail buildings. Based on years of experience, we're price competitive and offer high quality. When the strictest attention to detail is critical to your success, you can always count on Borghesi to deliver. From concept to occupancy, Borghesi is your single source. AKDO, Bridgeport, CT Stevens Manufacturing, Milford, CT Building Ideas That Work … www.borghesibuilding.com Wittmann Battenfeld, Torrington, CT Napoli Retail, Southington, CT Nufern, East Granby, CT Windsor Marketing Group (WMG), Suffield, CT The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT Since 1942, The Single Source Construction Firm Since 1942, our goal has been simple: To provide our clients with complete design, planning and construction services for commercial, industrial and retail buildings. Based on years of experience, we're price competitive and offer high quality. When the strictest attention to detail is critical to your success, you can always count on Borghesi to deliver. From concept to occupancy, Borghesi is your single source. Contact us at 860-482-7613 or visit us on the web. AKDO, Bridgeport, CT Stevens Manufacturing, Milford, CT Building Ideas That Work … www.borghesibuilding.com Nufern, East Granby, CT Windsor Marketing Group (WMG), Suffield, CT The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT 1942, The Single Source Construction Firm Since 1942, our goal has been simple: To provide our clients with complete design, planning and construction services for commercial, industrial and retail buildings. Based on years of experience, we're price competitive and offer high quality. When the strictest attention to detail is critical to your success, you can always count on Borghesi to deliver. From concept to occupancy, Borghesi is your single source. Contact us at 860-482-7613 or visit us on the web. Stevens Manufacturing, Milford, CT Building Ideas That Work … www.borghesibuilding.com © 2011 BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. All rights reserved. Butler Manufacturing™ is a division of BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. 2155 East Main Street • Torrington, Connecticut 06790 Wittmann Battenfeld, Torrington, CT Napoli Retail, Southington, CT Nufern, East Granby, CT Windsor Marketing Group (WMG), Suffield, CT The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT Since 1942, The Single Source Construction Firm Since 1942, our goal has been simple: To provide our clients with complete design, planning and construction services for commercial, industrial and retail buildings. Based on years of experience, we're price competitive and offer high quality. When the strictest attention to detail is critical to your success, you can always count on Borghesi to deliver. From concept to occupancy, Borghesi is your single source. Contact us at 860-482-7613 or visit us on the web. AKDO, Bridgeport, CT Stevens Manufacturing, Milford, CT Building Ideas That Work … www.borghesibuilding.com © 2011 BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. All rights reserved. Butler Manufacturing™ is a division of BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. 2155 East Main Street • Torrington, Connecticut 06790 Wittmann Battenfeld, Torrington, CT Napoli Retail, Southington, CT Nufern, East Granby, CT Windsor Marketing Group (WMG), Suffield, CT The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT Since 1942, The Single Source Construction Firm Since 1942, our goal has been simple: To provide our clients with complete design, planning and construction services for commercial, industrial and retail buildings. Based on years of experience, we're price competitive and offer high quality. When the strictest attention to detail is critical to your success, you can always count on Borghesi to deliver. From concept to occupancy, Borghesi is your single source. Contact us at 860-482-7613 or visit us on the web. AKDO, Bridgeport, CT Stevens Manufacturing, Milford, CT Building Ideas That Work … Wittmann Battenfeld, Torrington, CT Napoli Retail, Southington, CT Nufern, East Granby, CT Windsor Marketing Group (WMG), Suffield, CT The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT Since 1942, our goal simple: To provide our complete design, planning construction services industrial and retail on years of experience, competitive and offer When the strictest attention is critical to your success, always count on Borghesi From concept to occupancy, is your single source. AKDO, Bridgeport, CT Stevens Manufacturing, Milford, CT Building Ideas That Work … Wittmann Battenfeld, Torrington, CT Napoli Retail, Southington, CT Nufern, East Granby, CT Windsor Marketing Group (WMG), Suffield, CT The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT Since 1942, The Single Source Construction Firm Since 1942, our goal has been simple: To provide our clients with complete design, planning and construction services for commercial, industrial and retail buildings. Based on years of experience, we're price competitive and offer high quality. When the strictest attention to detail is critical to your success, you can always count on Borghesi to deliver. From concept to occupancy, Borghesi is your single source. AKDO, Bridgeport, CT Stevens Manufacturing, Milford, CT Building Ideas That Work … Wittmann Battenfeld, Torrington, CT Napoli Retail, Southington, CT Nufern, East Granby, CT Windsor Marketing Group (WMG), Suffield, CT The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT Since 1942, The Single Source Construction Firm Since 1942, our goal has been simple: To provide our clients with complete design, planning and construction services for commercial, industrial and retail buildings. Based on years of experience, we're price competitive and offer high quality. When the strictest attention to detail is critical to your success, you can always count on Borghesi to deliver. From concept to occupancy, Borghesi is your single source. AKDO, Bridgeport, CT Stevens Manufacturing, Milford, CT Building Ideas That Work … batteries in large numbers to shore up electricity supply in areas particularly prone to outages. "It's a very good application for the technology where it is today," he said. Kranenburg said Eversource is currently eyeing similar battery projects in Connecticut and New Hampshire, though nothing has been finalized or officially announced. Impact on climate change UConn professor Radenka Maric, who serves as the university's vice president of research and innovation, and Christina Lampe- Onnerud, CEO of Wilton-based clean energy startup Cadenza Innovation, have had front-row seats to the evolution of batteries, having driven some of it themselves. Since 2018, UConn and Cadenza have partnered to conduct highly specialized materials analysis and synthesis for use in lithium-ion- based energy storage systems, which Cadenza designs and plans to eventually produce on a large scale. One area of focus has been controlling "thermal runaway," which could cause batteries to catch on fire or explode. According to Lampe- Onnerud, Cadenza's "supercell" batteries automatically shut down when they sense a problem. The partners' combined efforts ultimately moved Cadenza closer to a real- world application of its technology — an array of Cadenza-made batteries providing short-term electricity to the offices of the New York Power Authority in White Plains. New York has moved aggressively to increase its energy storage capacity, setting a goal of 1,500 megawatts by 2025 and 3,000 megawatts by 2030, leaving open the possibility of further collaboration. Maric and Lampe-Onnerud said they see the mass implementation of batteries as an important part of combating climate change. "Batteries play a key role in moving the world from fossil fuels to renewables, from a centralized system to a decentralized system," Lampe-Onnerud said. "We can drive the Earth into a pretty ugly future, or we can move into something better for the planet and the economy." Maric said there are still some obstacles to large-scale battery adoption. Costs will have to continue to come down, she said, and the industry will have to confront human rights violations and worker safety issues surrounding the mining of Christina Lampe-Onnerud Radenka Maric cobalt — a key component of lithium- ion batteries — in impoverished central Africa. Perhaps even more staggering, however, is the lack of global infrastructure in place to support the battery industry. The international links and supply chains that support older energy technologies simply don't exist yet for batteries. "It's an issue of scale," she said. Maric also wants to see more investment in battery technology at the university level, with the aim of creating a workforce that understands and advocates for the technology. Both Maric and Lampe-Onnerud are optimistic, however, about the future of battery technology. The recent revolutions in consumer electronics and electric vehicles would have been difficult to imagine years ago, they said, and batteries appear to be on the cusp of a similar breakthrough. "We've gone from saying, 'Batteries are a new and exciting thing,' to saying 'Batteries are a critical solution to addressing the problem of climate change,'" Lampe-Onnerud said. "That's how much the view of batteries has shifted in a short period of time." Supercell-based batteries Cadenza Innovation worked on with automaker Fiat, a project that received federal funding. PHOTO | CONTRIBUTED

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