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This local company aims to generate new business
Ventura County Star
Catherine Von Burg, CEO and president of energy storage technology company SimpliPhi Power, which recently moved into a new manufacturing facility in Oxnard, holds one of the company's portable batteries. The company, which started in Ojai, is growing and needed more space.
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Austin Childs, a shipping and receiving specialist for SimpliPhi Power, works on boxing a battery in the company's new manufacturing facility in Oxnard. The new facility is triple the size of its previous Ojai headquarters. The company aims to expand its international operations and the Oxnard facility is crucial to that.
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Cindy Bowhall, a manufacturing technician for SimpliPhi Power, checks the power on one of the batteries in the company's new manufacturing facility in Oxnard. The company's batteries are aimed at areas off the normal power grid or for use if the power grid fails.
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Catherine Von Burg, CEO and president of Ojai-grown energy storage technology company SimpliPhi Power, is shown in the company's new Oxnard facility. The company recently moved from Ojai because it needed more space and hopes to grow its international business.
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The ExprESS battery from SimpliPhi Power is a powered AC generator and uninterruptible power supply that stores electricity for use when the power from an electrical company is not available.
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Catherine Von Burg, CEO and president of energy storage technology company SimpliPhi Power, said the company's mobile batteries can be a significant source power in the wake of disasters that interrupt the power grid.
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