Officials from Eastman Kodak Company and Empire State Development (also) celebrated the grand opening of the new Kodak Cell Assembly Center at Eastman Business Park this afternoon.
It’s a facility for making advanced high energy batteries that can be used in everything from electric cars to sustainable energy systems. Kodak developed the facility in partnership with the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium. NY
BEST is trying to make New York a center for advanced battery technology, particularly for power systems that use solar and wind power to generate during the day and high-capacity batteries to run at night.