Natron Energy

Natron Energy was a Santa Clara, California sodium-ion battery company spun out of Stanford University in 2012 by Colin Wessells, building cells based on a Prussian blue analog (PBA) chemistry that promised long cycle life, fast charge and discharge, non-flammability, and a domestic supply chain free of lithium, cobalt, and nickel. Natron's product line was aimed at critical power and industrial backup applications, including the BlueTray 4000 — a 48 VDC, 4 kW (6 kW peak), 50 V rack-mounted sodium-ion battery tray — and the BlueRack 250 / 500 kW battery cabinets targeted at data center UPS, peak shaving, and EV fast-charging support. The company stood up the first U.S. sodium-ion mass-production line in Holland, Michigan in 2024 (a converted Clarios facility, ~600 MW/yr nameplate) and announced a planned $1.4 billion factory in Kingsboro (Rocky Mount), North Carolina that was expected to create more than 1,000 jobs. Investors included Khosla Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, United Airlines Ventures, Aramco Ventures, and Sherwood Partners. After ~$373M raised, on August 27, 2025 Natron's board determined that ongoing fundraising and order-pipeline efforts were unsuccessful; the company filed a WARN notice and permanently ceased operations on September 3, 2025, terminating staff at both the Holland, MI and Santa Clara, CA sites and cancelling the North Carolina factory. Sherwood Partners, the largest shareholder, took over wind-down and asset disposition. Natron was a battery hardware OEM with no public developer API, SDK, GitHub organization, or programmable cloud surface.

Natron Energy is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Energy Storage, Batteries, Sodium-Ion Batteries, Prussian Blue Analog, and PBA Chemistry.

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Energy StorageBatteriesSodium-Ion BatteriesPrussian Blue AnalogPBA ChemistryData Center UPSCritical PowerIndustrial BackupPeak ShavingEV Charging SupportHardwareCleantechU.S. ManufacturingDefunct

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: natron
name: Natron Energy
description: Natron Energy was a Santa Clara, California sodium-ion battery company spun out of Stanford University in 2012
  by Colin Wessells, building cells based on a Prussian blue analog (PBA) chemistry that promised long cycle life, fast charge
  and discharge, non-flammability, and a domestic supply chain free of lithium, cobalt, and nickel. Natron's product line
  was aimed at critical power and industrial backup applications, including the BlueTray 4000 — a 48 VDC, 4 kW (6 kW peak),
  50 V rack-mounted sodium-ion battery tray — and the BlueRack 250 / 500 kW battery cabinets targeted at data center UPS,
  peak shaving, and EV fast-charging support. The company stood up the first U.S. sodium-ion mass-production line in Holland,
  Michigan in 2024 (a converted Clarios facility, ~600 MW/yr nameplate) and announced a planned $1.4 billion factory in Kingsboro
  (Rocky Mount), North Carolina that was expected to create more than 1,000 jobs. Investors included Khosla Ventures, Chevron
  Technology Ventures, United Airlines Ventures, Aramco Ventures, and Sherwood Partners. After ~$373M raised, on August 27,
  2025 Natron's board determined that ongoing fundraising and order-pipeline efforts were unsuccessful; the company filed
  a WARN notice and permanently ceased operations on September 3, 2025, terminating staff at both the Holland, MI and Santa
  Clara, CA sites and cancelling the North Carolina factory. Sherwood Partners, the largest shareholder, took over wind-down
  and asset disposition. Natron was a battery hardware OEM with no public developer API, SDK, GitHub organization, or programmable
  cloud surface.
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
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position: Provider
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tags:
- Energy Storage
- Batteries
- Sodium-Ion Batteries
- Prussian Blue Analog
- PBA Chemistry
- Data Center UPS
- Critical Power
- Industrial Backup
- Peak Shaving
- EV Charging Support
- Hardware
- Cleantech
- U.S. Manufacturing
- Defunct
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created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
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- type: Website
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- type: Company
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- type: USManufacturing
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- type: Products
  url: https://natron.energy/products
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  url: https://natron.energy/products/bluetray-4000
- type: BlueRack250
  url: https://natron.energy/products/bluerack-250-battery-cabinet
- type: DataCenters
  url: https://natron.energy/industries/data-centers-critical-power
- type: BlueRack250Datasheet
  url: https://natron.energy/files/br250_industrial_datasheet_rev2.5_061324-1.pdf
- type: WARNNotice
  url: https://www.michigan.gov/leo/-/media/Project/Websites/leo/Documents/WD-DATA_PUBLIC_WARN_NOTICES4/2025/2025-08-29_WARN-Notice_Natron-Energy-Inc.pdf
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natron_Energy
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com