Natron Energy, a US-based sodium battery company, has opened the region’s first sodium battery cell manufacturing capacity with a yearly output of 600 MWh. The facility is the US’ first commercial scale sodium battery factory, and will be producing Natron’s patented Prussian Blue Analogue (PBA)-based sodium battery trays. Natron will initially be supplying into the energy storage sector with a particular interest in supplying data centers within the US. This fits the company’s initial low manufacturing capacity and the safety requirements of data centers. The company claims that its PBA-based sodium chemistry will be high power enough to offset the low capacity, as it claims a 40W/Wh power to capacity ratio relative to Li-ion’s 10W/Wh by comparison. The company claims…