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Our goal to develop new technologies, applications, and ultimately new products, in energy storage

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At Johnson Controls we continue to focus on our growing global lithium-ion technology and manufacturing centers. Our Systems Integration Center located in Hanover, Germany, specializes in validation, testing and battery assembly and is located near our European customers.

Johnson Controls has the largest energy storage technical center in North America at its headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisc. With state-of-the-art equipment and leading scientists, the Battery Technology Center and Test Facility are aimed at developing new technologies, applications, and ultimately new products, in energy storage.

We are funding multi-million-dollar initiatives with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, including cutting-edge laboratories, an endowed chair in energy storage and graduate research fellowships.

Johnson Controls Power Solutions is a strategic partner with Penn State, Ford, Argonne National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

 

Established a partnership in 2012 with advanced lithium battery developer PolyPlus Battery Co. on work to move the California firm’s batteries toward commercialization. The U.S. Department of Energy  announced funding of $8.99 million for PolyPlus, for a project involving partners Johnson Controls and Corning Inc. Berkeley-based PolyPlus will invest $2.92 million in the project.

In China we are developing breakthrough technology with Beijing University of Science and Technology and Tsinghua University. Johnson Controls is continuously working to develop capabilities to better serve our Chinese OE customers.  Currently, more than 100 R&D engineers are employed at our Eureka Battery Technology Center and Test Facility in Shanghai. The total investment in that facility is more than $21 million.

UWM Research Report article

JOHNSON CONTROLS PARTNERSHIP WITH WISCONSIN UNIVERSITIES

Johnson Controls is helping to position Wisconsin as a worldwide leader in energy storage. The company has endowed a professorship, built cutting-edge research labs and funded graduate studies in energy storage at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The goal is to make groundbreaking discoveries and critical advancement in the area of energy storage devices and batteries.

Watch the video below for a behind-the-scenes look at some of the work being done as part of the historic collaboration.

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