25 | Mike Berger — Director of Product Engineering, Stryten Energy

About this episode

Mike Berger discusses the complexities of battery technology and Stryten Energy's manufacturing capabilities.

🚀 “ It’s not rocket science ,” someone once told Mike Berger, Stryten Energy’s Director of Product Engineering. "Yes," he agreed. “ It’s probably even a little more complicated than rocket science because really it takes chemistry, electricity, materials, and electrochemistry .” Listen to this episode to understand what he’s talking about in discussion with BioZen’s CEO Nate Kirchhofer. Stryten Energy is a US manufacturer of high-quality lead (Pb) batteries, lithium (Li) batteries, and vanadium (V) redox flow batteries (RFBs)—as well as chargers and performance management software. Their variety of Industrial Pb battery production plants are concentrated in the US Midwest, whereas their Innovation Centers are located in Ottowa (Li-ion) and Denver (VRFBs). Overall, with 2.5 million sq ft of manufacturing space and 2500 employees, Stryten cranks out 14 GWh of energy storage products per year, putting them at #3 in the US, and they address four major market segments: Essential Power : telecom, utilities, microgrids, residential solar, security Motive Power : 90% of it is forklifts, as well as chargersand performance management tools Transportation : batteries for automotive e…

People in this episode

Host: Nate Kirchhofer

Guest: Mike Berger

Topics covered

• battery technology
• energy storage
• lead batteries
• lithium batteries
• electrochemistry
• manufacturing

Keywords

• Stryten Energy
• lead batteries
• lithium batteries
• energy storage
• electrochemistry
• manufacturing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stryten Energy, BioZen Batteries

Places: US Midwest, Ottowa, Denver

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