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EnerG2 opens battery materials plant in Albany

by: The Associated Press
February 14, 2012

ALBANY, OR – A plant to produce carbon material that would increase the storage capacity of electric car batteries has opened in Albany.

Seattle-based EnerG2 got a $21 million federal stimulus grant in 2010 to help remodel a warehouse of one of its partners, Oregon Freeze Dry.

Chief executive Rick Luebbe told the Albany Democrat-Herald that the plant would initially produce 20 metric tons of the pure carbon material each month and employ more than 30 people.

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