Battery management improvement
Event details
Date: Wednesday 19th February 2025
Time: 7:39pm
Venue: online
Zoom link: https://aut.zoom.us/j/95280070444
Battery management improvement
A research project into battery modelling, of the University of Waikato’s Battery Group (of engineers, scientists, and students), has recently resulted in the group’s development of improved technology for monitoring the health and charge states of chemical-electric batteries.
Godfrey Bridger is the Commercialisation Leader of the group: a role requiring the evaluation and promotion of the improved technology with a view to attracting genuine collaborators and investors. Godfrey already sees potential benefit over a range of application possibilities: from high-power main-grid Battery Energy Storage Systems
to micro-power implants such as Pacemakers – but knows that there is always more over every horizon. And so, with this presentation, Godfrey seeks the support and involvement of his audience by welcoming our ideas and discussion on both the potential and the possibilities of this new and advanced technology.
About the speaker
Godfrey Bridger (ME., MBA., MIEEE.(life), MEngNZ.) is an electronic engineering professional and master’s graduate of the University of Auckland, with the breadth and depth of experience of a lifelong career beginning in East Asia with Schlumberger; progressing with a return to New Zealand to run a start-up company that developed and produced electronic Hennessy meat-grading probes; then over to the UK to market for BP International; home again to serve on a number of boards (most notably the Auckland Regional Services Trust and Mercury Energy) and on to serve in our Ministry of Economic Development and as chief executive of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority; and then to establish and operate (with his wife, Crystal Beavis) the marketing and public relations consultancy, Bridger Beavis and Associates; and later, together with Crystal, to direct the LED streetlighting consultancy, Strategic Lighting Partners.
In more recent times, Godfrey has led important projects for Counties Power, Simcro, HortResearch, Statistics NZ, and the University of Waikato (for which Godfrey is currently the commercial lead for the University’s Battery Group).
