2025 – NAATBatt

NAATBatt Restarts PowerTrip Programs at Rockwell Automation

Jim Greenberger2025-08-22T20:17:42-04:00

Last Thursday, NAATBatt revived its Member Site Visit Programs (now called PowerTrips) with a visit to the headquarters of Platinum member Rockwell Automation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At PowerTrip programs, a NAATBatt member firm opens a manufacturing facility for tour by other NAATBatt members. During the tour, NAATBatt members have the opportunity to see exactly what the host member does and learn about its expertise. Of course, networking is a big part of PowerTrips programs. Each PowerTrip features a networking lunch or dinner sponsored by the host member. These meals and breaks during the program allow attendees to get to know the [...]

NAATBatt Restarts PowerTrip Programs at Rockwell AutomationJim Greenberger2025-08-22T20:17:42-04:00

In Memory of Imre Gyuk

Jim Greenberger2025-07-25T16:04:44-04:00

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Imre Gyuk, one of the truly great figures in the field of energy storage. Imre served most recently as Chief Scientist, Energy Storage at the U.S. Department of Energy. But he made his mark on the world and on those of us who knew him in industry over the nearly 40 years before during which he served as the Director of Energy Storage Research at the Department of Energy. Today storing electricity on the grid to use when needed is a mainstream technology with a market size in excess [...]

In Memory of Imre GyukJim Greenberger2025-07-25T16:04:44-04:00

One Big Beautiful Technology

Jim Greenberger2025-07-03T17:55:26-04:00

The battle to save the tax credits helping to direct investment in advanced battery technology is now officially over. For better or worse Congress has acted and our battery industry and our country will have to live with the consequences. The good news, if you are looking for it, is that what Congress did or did not do in the One Big Beautiful Bill does not really matter. The technology that powers human society is moving inexorably towards electricity. Storing and delivering that electricity to exactly where and exactly when it is needed is a key, enabling tool of this new [...]

One Big Beautiful TechnologyJim Greenberger2025-07-03T17:55:26-04:00

Statement on Maintaining Tax Incentives for Domestic Battery Manufacturing

Jim Greenberger2025-05-16T17:46:04-04:00

Manufacturing in the United States is in crisis. Nowhere is this crisis more acute than in the manufacture of advanced lithium batteries and their supply chain components. The loss of manufacturing in the United States has hollowed-out communities, eliminated good jobs and reduced the tax base. The loss of manufacturing is a root cause of the ballooning federal deficit. But the loss of manufacturing itself is not the crisis. The crisis is the loss of investment in manufacturing infrastructure. Manufacturing lithium batteries, like any other product, cannot be established and sustained in the United States unless investors can see a path [...]

Statement on Maintaining Tax Incentives for Domestic Battery ManufacturingJim Greenberger2025-05-16T17:46:04-04:00

Tariffs Need to be “Sticky” to Work

Jim Greenberger2025-03-14T00:13:33-04:00

Regardless of the wisdom of the Trump tariffs, the Administration’s actions seem motivated by a genuine desire to return manufacturing to the United States. This is a laudable goal and one that NAATBatt fully supports. But in trying to return manufacturing to the United States through tariffs, the Administration may be confusing a symptom with the disease. The disease is not a lack of manufacturing in the United States. The disease is that the United States is underinvesting in manufacturing infrastructure. That underinvestment has led to the symptom of a declining manufacturing sector in general and to the lack of advanced [...]

Tariffs Need to be “Sticky” to WorkJim Greenberger2025-03-14T00:13:33-04:00

Explaining U.S. Battery Strategy in Korea

Jim Greenberger2025-03-08T04:23:35-05:00

The NAATBatt Onshoring Battery Technology Committee recently sponsored a delegation of NAATBatt members at InterBattery 2025. The delegation included representatives of 39 NAATBatt member firms, which either attended the conference in person or virtually. Participating members had the opportunity to attend InterBattery 2025, the second largest battery conference in Asia (after CIBF in Shenzhen, China) and meet a wide with a range of Asian battery and battery component manufacturers. The NAATBatt InterBattery program allowed members to interact directly with decision-makers at the large Korean battery companies. Those decision-makers tend to be located in Korea, not in North America. The Onshoring Battery [...]

Explaining U.S. Battery Strategy in KoreaJim Greenberger2025-03-08T04:23:35-05:00

Take-Aways from NAATBatt 2025

Jim Greenberger2025-02-21T22:11:31-05:00

NAATBatt 2025, the 17th annual meeting and conference of NAATBatt International, ended on Thursday, February 20, in Orlando, Florida. Initial reviews by attendees have been overwhelmingly positive. NAATBatt continues its mission of fostering a culture of inclusion and congeniality in the North American battery industry. The objective of that culture is to give NAATBatt members more and better opportunities to grow their respective businesses and build new commercial relationships in North America. NAATBatt 2025 attendees appear to agree that NAATBatt is achieving that objective. The positive reactions to the meeting contrasted with uncertainty about the state of the industry as a [...]

Take-Aways from NAATBatt 2025Jim Greenberger2025-02-21T22:11:31-05:00