The financing round was ledby Bright Capital with money from Gates, Gentry Venture Partners, KleinerPerkins Caufield & Byers, Foundation Capital, and Advanced TechnologyVentures.

Aquion says it will bedelivering initial, pre-production AHI units to “selected lead customers andpartners” throughout 2013.

That will be followed by the shipping of first commercial batteriesfrom its high-volume manufacturing plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to “enablebroad adoption of renewable energy technologies”.

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