February 16, 2022 – Energy start-up Atlas Power Technologies has announced that its supercapacitor manufacturing facility—currently under construction in Abbotsford, B.C.—is on track to be up and running before the end of the year.“We’re accelerating the clean technology transition timeline by taking the most-mined products today that nobody wants and turning them into a high-value, clean technology,” said Mitchell Miller, CEO, Atlas Power.Using technology first developed at the University of British Columbia, and in partnership with Mitacs, Atlas Power’s process takes abundant materials (like mined thermal coal and/or petroleum coke) and refines them to make high-grade, activated carbon—a component of supercapacitors.“A supercapacitor is a type of capacitor that can store a large amount of energy, typically 10x to 100x more energy per unit mass or volume compared…
Indigenous-led Atlas Power Technologies poised to revolutionize energy storage
