US sodium-ion battery developer Aquion Energy has elected energy industry expert Tom McDaniel to its board of directors.
McDaniel currently works as director and chairman of the board at smart grid and energy management company Tendril Networks and as director of solar energy firm SunPower. He also works for SemGroup, On Ramp Wireless and Cypress Envirosystems.
Prior to that McDaniel spent 37 years at Edison International where he served as chief financial officer and treasurer.
“Tom brings an incredible depth of knowledge and experience in energy, utilities and renewables as well as an extensive history of corporate governance,” said Scott Pearson, chief executive officer of Pittsburgh-based Aquion Energy.
“Aquion’s high performance, low cost, environmentally friendly and safe energy storage technology is uniquely positioned to accelerate the use of energy storage in distributed grid- connected and off-grid energy systems,” said McDaniel. Aquion Energy is a Pittsburgh-based developer of so-called acqueous hybrid ion sodium batteries.
