Testbeds

Research and Development

Universities

Shared-use

Infrastructure

Rochester, New York

1. Battery Development Center

The RIT Battery Development Center is a state-of-the-art research and rapid prototyping and testing facility focused on the development and qualification of emerging energy storage technologies.

Rochester, New York

2. Kodak R2R

The Kodak R2R site will serve battery and capacitor development and production companies. The new lines will complement existing roll-to-roll coating capability and expertise at Kodak; a battery assembly prototype lab at RIT; and the BEST Test and Commercialization Center. This combination of capabilities expands the energy ecosystem and creates a world-class tool-set for the development and production of new battery and capacitor technologies.

Syracuse, New York

3: Solid State IUCRC

The Center for Solid-State Electric Power Storage is a NSF supported Industry-University Collaborative Research Center. Its mission is to be a center of excellence in developing eco-friendly, safe, and economically feasible solid-state energy storage technology for portable, medical, automotive, centralized and decentralized electric grid, military, and energy security applications.

A researcher working in the Solid State IUCRC.
Cortland, New York

4: Intertek Battery Center

From electric vehicles and personal electronics to renewable energy, Intertek offers Total Quality Assurance in battery testing and certification services, ensuring energy storage technologies meet performance, reliability, and safety criteria.

Binghamton, New York

5: Battery-NY Center

Battery-NY is a new lithium battery technology development and prototyping center in New York’s Southern Tier. Funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration and NYS Empire State Development. Led by Binghamton University, Battery-NY will build on existing strengths within NYS while advancing the development and enabling the scale-up and advanced manufacturing of batteries for various sectors including transportation, military, and energy, and will establish a robust manufacturing infrastructure that will advance the region by supporting multiple industries and their supply chains.

Binghamton, New York

6: NECCES Dry Room

Located at Binghamton University, the NorthEast Center for Chemical Energy Storage Dry Room and Battery Facility is an open-user facility providing researchers from academia and industry with a state-of-the-art lab environment for lithium battery manufacturing and testing.

Upton, New York

7: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven Lab is one of 10 national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Brookhaven Lab is managed for the Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a partnership between Stony Brook University and Battelle, and six core universities: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, and Yale.