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At American Battery Solutions Inc., we design & manufacture safe, efficient, and reliable energy storage systems that are easy to purchase, install, operate and maintain.
In 2007, our ambitious team pioneered the world’s first self-contained 2 MW energy storage system (ESS). Years later, the same group developed the industry’s first 4 MWh containerized system achieving US and European safety approvals. Today the ABS-ESS team has over 150 years of combined energy storage design, engineering, manufacturing and deployment experience.
ABS-ESS designs and engineers all its energy storage products starting with the industry standard LFP cells upward, unlike integrators that may buy modules and/or racks of modules from others and attempt to package them into a system, ABS starts with the cells and designs the optimum system around them. Every aspect of the system design is covered by our in-house team of industry veterans from the patented "Supercell" design, redundant cell and system management electronics, highly engineered custom liquid cooling system, modular power conversion systems, UL9540 certified safety systems, to the easy to install system enclosures.
Terastor™ is our team’s 5th generation design and includes over 15 years of lessons learned deploying GWH's of energy storage products around the world with a focus on safety, reliability, ease of installation and very low operation maintenance costs.
American Battery Solutions Inc. is an industrial and commercial battery system manufacturer located in the heart of the U.S. automotive industry. Our ABS team consists of battery systems experts with decades of experience in designing, developing, and manufacturing advanced battery systems for the transportation industry.
Collectively, we've helped launch some of the industry’s most well-known programs with OEM customers, such as General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, BMW, Daimler-Mercedes, and others.
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Quality Policy
The ABS Quality Mission is to deliver battery systems which are:
Although the Senior Leadership Team has ultimate responsibility for quality, all employees have a responsibility within their own areas of work to ensure that quality is embedded within the whole of the company. Our new products are a testament of continual improvement and management commitment. View our Supplier Quality Manual to understand our commitment to our customers and to the improvement of our products and services.
Bud brings more than 35 years of leadership and expertise in developing and deploying power, energy and energy management solutions with Industry leaders such as NEC EnergySolutions, A123 Systems, American Power conversion and Tripplite. Bud joined A123 Systems in 2007, where he served as the Vice President of Engineering & GM with responsibility for A123’s systems development efforts across the corporation.
In 2013, Bud became the President of A123 Energy Solutions, with responsibility for A123’s Grid & Commercial business.
In 2014, he led the sale of the division to NEC of Japan and served as the CEO of NEC EnergySolutions until 2017.
Today, Bud is an advisor to some of the largest players in the Energy Storage industry, as well as providing technical and business advice to emerging players in the battery and energy systems markets. Bud received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston.
C. Michael Hoff has over thirty years of experience in the power and energy storage industries, working for a utility, private sector companies and his own consultancy. At these companies he worked various roles as systems engineer, CTO, VP Research, Directors of Applications Engineering, Safety and Compliance, and Engineering, as well as independent consultant.
In 2006, Michael started the systems group at A123 System and subsequently built industry pioneering teams in Safety and Compliance, Applications and Research, which established the new owners, NECEnergy Storage Solutions, as a leader among its peers and in the hearts and minds of its customers.
His expertise in batteries, power conversion, safety and controls comes from a many years of applied product research and his active participation in engineering and product development. Michael has written and cowritten over a dozen patents, and many technical articles including a book on energy storage. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.
Greg started his career in Energy Storage in2006, when he joined the A123 Systems team and led the design of A123’s first module level electronics, string level (BMS) electronics, and system level architecture for 200KW hybrid hybrid buses made by Daimler. This was the genesis for A123’s first grid scale energy storage solutions.
In 2009, he started the Smart Grid Integration Team which was responsible for installing large scale energy storage systems. Returning from the field as the Director of Hardware Engineering and having had a full 360-degree experience within energy storage, Greg was able to lead product development to introduce new innovative concepts which raised the technology bar, reduced costs, and made system installation easier. This resulted in the award of more than 6 patents in the energy storage space.
Greg transitioned into a VP of Business development role in 2018 for a small power supply company interested in getting into the energy storage business. Greg is currently the Vice President of Engineering within the American Battery Systems Energy Storage Division building a highly selective world class team of experts to bring the next generation of Energy Storage Systems to market.
Rick has extensive commercial and technical experience leading successful energy storage project teams; transforming complex manufacturing, project, and service operations.
Prior to joining ABS, Rick was VP, Grid Integration and Service at A123 Systems and NEC Energy Solutions where he was responsible for industry leading project management, engineering, and service teams from customer award to site acceptance and through the operations lifecycle for 100+ energy storage projects world-wide (1GW/1.5GWh).
He received Bachelor and Master engineering degrees from the University at Buffalo.
Erik Nelson has 30 years of Mechanical and Systems Engineering Experience.
Prior to joining ABS, Erik worked for A123/ NEC Energy Solutions systems where he spent 14 years designing and developing generations of containerized and building application grid energy storage systems, with 1.3 GW under operation to date. He focused on products ranging from 480V to 1500V with development of battery modules, BMS controls, rack design, DCI, zone controls, zone configurations, stackable building installations & thermal management systems.
Prior to NECES, he spent 18 years at EMC as Principal Mechanical Engineer developing data storage systems and subsystems.
Erik holds a BSME with 18 patents and 8 currently filed.
Scott Reitsma, Principal Thermal Systems Engineer, brings over 25 years of experience in thermal management design and analysis across various industries. At NECES he was a major contributor to the module, rack, and system level thermal management solutions implemented in their ESS products. Scott supported all areas of the business with computational modeling and numerical analysis.
Prior to joining NECES, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Evergreen Solar guiding the development of silicon crystal growth furnaces and high yield laser cutting of silicon wafers.
Prior to this he worked as a Senior Principal Engineer at Polaroid Corporation supporting development of novel thermal printing systems and supporting core business manufacturing areas as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
Scott holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and is named in 10 patents awarded or pending.
Ken is the Principal Electrical Engineer for the ESS division.
Prior to joining ABS, Ken worked at Schneider Electric, spanning 14 years in R&D as an engineer and 6 years as an intern through college and high school. While at Schneider, Ken designed multiple subsystems for uninterruptible power supplies across the core APC product lines including battery chargers, off-line power supplies, and control systems.
Ken has also worked on several non-core research projects for Schneider including an energy storage system, developing the rack-level BMS and trickle charger. Other projects include topology research using wide-band gap semiconductors for UPS applications, and energy star compliance for UPSs.
Ken holds a BSEE from Georgia Tech, MSEE from Northeastern University, and an MBA from Boston University.
Gerald joined NEC Energy Solutions in July 2010 as Director of Program Management. In this role he provided leadership, strategic planning, cross-functional coordination and organizational process development across the engineering and business teams.
Prior to joining NECES, Gerald held positions in Program Management for Motorola Embedded Computing, was Director of Supply Chain Operations and Production Operations Manager for Motorola Internet & Network Group, Engineering Manager and Development Engineer for Motorola Cellular Subscriber Group.
Gerald received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Northeastern University, and a Certificate in Applied Project Management from Boston University.
Gerard deLisser brings to ABS 13 years of renewable energy, storage, and microgrid experience.
Prior to working at ABS, Gerard held positions at several renewable energy companies focusing on the development of energy generation and storage projects, and EPC (engineering, procurement, construction). As Vice President of Business Development ESS, Gerard is responsible for global business development, marketing, and sales of utility scale energy storage systems.
Gerard has his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Syracuse University.
Kaushal has 25 years of experience in Embedded, Mechanical and Systems Engineering in the verticals of power electronics and Industrial automation.
Previously he worked at Schneider Electric / APC and lead global development teams from ideation to mass production. In early stages of his career, he developed Intrinsic Safe Modicon PLC and worked on developing Industrial PC for Hazardous environment.
Kaushal has Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Pune University in India.
John Ward grew up in Marlborough, Massachusetts and attended Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation from 1981 to 1998 mostly as an Equipment Technician on semiconductor equipment, and then at Intel (when they bought Digital) until 2014 in the Test Engineering lab.
In 2014, Intel consolidated all the labs in Hudson to the West (Arizona, Oregon, and Texas) and he decided it was time to retire from Intel.
He then went on to work at Boston Semi Equipment in Billerica, MA.
Nigel is a senior electrical engineer on the team. At ABS his role consumes controls over various blocks within the TeraSTOR system, with a primary focus on data acquisition and communication between individual Battery cells to the greater system.
He comes from the consumer product market where he spent 5 years working for Stanley Black and Decker, designing the electrics for a variety of Lithium-Ion power tool batteries.
Bryan has been working in energy storage since the very beginning of his career.
Over the course of 6 years, he held multiple internships as well as a full-time position at NEC Energy Solutions, where he was responsible for the mechanical design of multiple generations of energy storage solutions and completed several installations at customer sites.
Bryan comes to ABS from Plug Power, where he led lithium-ion battery module design for their hydrogen fuel cell systems.
Bryan holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut.
Luis has 30 plus years experience in Supply Chain as a Buyer / Planner, Strategic Procurement Specialist and more recently Global Commodity Manager with a long-standing background in the UPS and Energy Storage Industry.
Prior to joining ABS Luis worked for Ambri Inc. in Marlborough MA.
He was previously employed with Powin Energy out of Tualatin Oregon and with A123 Systems / NEC Energy Solutions in Westborough MA for over 12 years prior to that.
Tess is an incoming senior at the University of NewHampshire, pursuing a Bachelor of Communication with a focus in business applications.
She is a Marketing Research and Communications Intern for the ESSDivision in Hudson, MA.
Adam is an incoming Junior at UMassAmherst, pursing a BSEE, and is a cell test intern for the WSS branch in HudsonMA.
Prior to joining ABS, Adam worked as a project manager for AppalachiaService Project in Bristol Tennessee, helping to lead projects redesigning and rebuilding houses for those in need.
Benjamin Tackett grew up in Michigan and got his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University in Flint, MI.
After 13 years and various product development roles with GM, Mack Trucks, Volvo, he transitioned to the solar enginery industry in 2008. He gained experience building a dealer network in residential and commercial solar, eventually moving into utility PV inverter sales with SMA in 2013.
He was introduced to the energy storage industry in 2015 and has been working in utility storage full time since 2017.
John comes to ABS from Vertiv Corporation, where he was Vice President of Engineering for the Energy Storage Product Group. In this role he built a team that designs and develops large Lithium Ion battery systems for data center applications.
Prior to Vertiv, John was Chief Engineer and the first employee at IHI Energy Storage (now IHI Terrasun), which presently has more than 1GWh in grid-connected energy storage projects operating or in development.
John also led the development of A123 Systems AEROS™ Energy Management System during his tenure at A123.
John has a BS in Computer Science from the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) and an MBA from Fontbonne University in St. Louis.
