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Last week long-duration energy storage company Eos Energy, which makes a zinc-based battery, announced it had secured an investment of up to $315.5 million from Cerberus Capital Management. And yesterday, the company said it had started commercial production of its...

Vertiv to incorporate the ZincFive BC Series uninterruptible power supply battery cabinets into its range of battery systems, for data centre backup power. Vertiv has shared that it will add the ZincFive BC Series uninterruptible power supply (UPS) Battery Cabinets to...

The Department of Energy released its cost analysis for 11 technologies one day before announcing several funding and innovation opportunities for long-duration storage developers. The levelized cost of 11 long-duration storage technologies in 2030 is expected to...

World’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory The 6,500m² (70,000ft²) Enerpoly Production Innovation Centre (EPIC) facility is located in Rosersberg in northern Stockholm. It is said to achieve a final capacity throughput of 100MWh annually by 2026. The commissioning for...

World’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory The 6,500m² (70,000ft²) Enerpoly Production Innovation Centre (EPIC) facility is located in Rosersberg in northern Stockholm. It is said to achieve a final capacity throughput of 100MWh annually by 2026. The commissioning for...

The new Aqueous Battery Consortium of Stanford, SLAC, and 13 other research institutions, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, seeks to overcome the limitations of a battery using water as its electrolyte. How do you store electricity in a way that is large and...

The public wish list for battery makers is pretty straightforward. People want batteries that work for days without needing to be recharged, don’t leak or catch fire, and provide reliable energy storage for many years. Our currently available energy storage technology...

Company opens battery manufacturing plant in Oakland Richmond-based battery manufacturer Enzinc announced that it's scaling up and automating the production of its zinc anodes in Oakland, where this week it opened a 10,000-square-foot manufacturing technology center...

Lithium-ion batteries are the state of the art in stationary energy storage, but parts of the raw material extraction are controversial due to environmental and social problems. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has therefore joined forces with...

The energy storage project will use Eos’ zinc aqueous batteries and WATTMORE’s AI-based energy management system and control software. We’re pleased to partner with Bridge and WATTMORE on a state-of-the-art energy storage system that opens the door to understanding...

Nebraska-based electricity provider Lincoln Electric Systems (LES) has signed a deal to facilitate the development, financing, and operation of a new battery energy storage project that will be built near an existing electrical substation. The other parties involved...

This article is part of our series on responsible mining solutions. The push for clean energy is fueled by a growing demand for minerals, but conventional mining has a track record of harmful social and environmental impacts. Lithium-ion battery alternatives are...

Eos Energy Enterprises has signed a new customer agreement with City Utilities (CU) of Springfield to provide 216 MWh of zinc-based energy storage for two project sites in Missouri. Eos by contract will provide 216 MWh, 36 MW by six-hour duration, to support City...

RICHMOND, BC, December 16, 2024 — TheNewswire - ABOUND Energy Inc (“ABOUND” or the “Company”) (CSE: ABND) (OTC PINK: ZAIRF) (FSE: 0E9)  is pleased to announce that it entered into a letter of intent to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares (the “Transaction”)...

January 23, 2025 – Octet Scientific, Inc., a leading maker of specialty chemicals for safe, sustainable batteries, has received a strategic equity investment from ICIG Ventures, the Venture capital investments unit of International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG)....

ABOUND Energy Inc (“ABOUND” or the “Company”) (CSE: ABND) (OTC PINK: ZAIRF) (FSE: 0E9)  is pleased to announce that it entered into a letter of intent to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares (the “Transaction”) of  Alluvial Capital Corp. (“Alluvial”) , a...

Calgary-based Cellex Energy Inc. is anticipating a future in which zinc batteries are pivotal to the energy storage sector, a belief cemented by its membership in the Zinc Battery Initiative (ZBI).

Enzinc Inc., an advanced zinc battery developer, today announced it had closed its Series A funding, raising $8 million. The round was led by TO VC, with participation from American Century Investments (ACI), which led Enzinc’s seed round.

The long-duration battery company says it has a $589 million, 2.3-GWh order backlog and $14.2 billion, 59-GWh commercial pipeline.

Diversified, safe, and domestically-produced energy storage is vital for a sustainable and secure future. North America must look beyond lithium and invest in alternate chemistries that complement existing batteries and provide alternatives for grid-scale, microgrids,...

Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: EOSE) ("Eos" or the “Company”), a leading provider of safe, scalable, efficient, and sustainable zinc-based long duration energy storage systems, today announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Wabash (NYSE:...

Eos Energy Enterprises has signed a new customer agreement with City Utilities (CU) of Springfield to provide 216 MWh of zinc-based energy storage for two project sites in Missouri. Eos by contract will provide 216 MWh, 36 MW by six-hour duration, to support City...

The Canadian company said this comes on top of $25 million raised earlier in a Series A round. The company said the funding will accelerate e-Zinc’s establishment of a manufacturing base that will enable commercialization of its zinc-battery LDES solution, which...

Last week long-duration energy storage company Eos Energy, which makes a zinc-based battery, announced it had secured an investment of up to $315.5 million from Cerberus Capital Management. And yesterday, the company said it had started commercial production of its...

Richmond, BC, July 8, 2024 / ABOUND Energy Inc. (“ABOUND” or the “Company”) (CSE: ABND) (OTC PINK: ZAIRF) (FSE: 0E9) is thrilled to announce that Novus Earth Energy Operations Inc. has issued a purchase order for ABOUND’s groundbreaking Zaeras™ Long Duration Energy...

Vertiv has shared that it will add the ZincFive BC Series uninterruptible power supply (UPS) Battery Cabinets to its portfolio of battery systems, which will be made available for data centre backup power. Vertiv is a provider of critical digital infrastructure and...

The Swedish company said despite Nilar’s innovative manufacturing capabilities, its battery cell chemistry utilised expensive raw materials and so suffered from high commodity prices. Enerpoly will swiftly integrate Nilar’s state-of-the-art machinery to scale its...

The energy storage market was worth between $44 billion and $55 billion in 2023, and it’s predicted to reach up to $150 billion by 2030. However, it faces major economic and supply challenges related to the usage of batteries made with scarce and price-volatile...

Having heard rumblings of zinc battery potential for months, I was excited for the opportunity to speak with an expert on the subject: Dr. Josef Daniel-Ivad. As Head of the Zinc Battery Initiative, he has spent years researching zinc's abilities and potential to...

Octet Scientific, Inc., a leading maker of specialty chemicals for safe, sustainable batteries, has received a strategic equity investment from ICIG Ventures, the Venture capital investments unit of International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG). Octet plans to use the...

Swedish startup Enerpoly raises $8.4M to build world’s first megafactory for zinc-ion batteries With the demand for batteries intensifying globally, the industry urgently needs the development and adoption of more sustainable and innovative battery solutions. This is...

Think zinc for sustainability The producers of zinc, an element used in the health, agricultural, automotive, energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing sectors, have committed to mining and processing zinc sustainably. Andrew Green, executive director of the...

How ABB and Their Customers Future-Proof Construction Supply Chain with NiZn Technology Corscale’s main project goal was to focus on improving sustainability, which becomes even more of a challenge when supply chains are constrained. The project is a five-building...

Zinc batteries, a lithium alternative, set for new part supply in Japan TOKYO/OSAKA -- Japanese chemical group Nippon Shokubai will scale up production as early as next year of a main component in rechargeable zinc batteries, an emerging alternative to lithium-ion...

Zinc recyclers take on $17 billion market The headquarters for a Kiwi start-up that aims to disrupt the US$10 billion zinc recycling industry is two shipping containers in a car park on the University of Canterbury campus. In the containers, 27-year-old Jonathan Ring...

Two additions to ZincFive’s BC Series UPS battery cabinets US nickel-zinc battery maker ZincFive has announced two additions to its range of BC Series UPS battery cabinets. It also has a new battery to power the cabinets. The new BC 2 – 500 and BC 2 – 300X models have...

Female One Zero - The Top 21 CIRCULAZE Circular Economy Start-ups and Top Company 2023 (Enzinc selected in TOP21 Start-Ups) For more information, click the link: https://femaleonezero.com/startups/the-top-21-circulaze-circular-economy-start-ups-2023

Redflow’s sustainable zinc-bromine flow battery keeps the world’s critical infrastructure safe In the US, Redflow batteries are installed at a major bioenergy facility. The company has also been awarded projects to install the batteries at a children’s hospital, a...

New Electronics, Neil Tyler, The future of energy storage The extent of human activity’s contribution may still raise arguments but there can be no doubt that the globe’s environment and climate is changing, and a significant contributor is the generation of...

A research team led by Prof. Yan Lifeng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has designed a water-based nanomicellar electrolyte by using methylurea (Mu). The results were published in the Journal of...

Society's increasing demand for metals led to the discussion as to whether scarcity of raw materials could lead to supply shortages and to which extend circularity can prevent resource depletion. This study investigates the need for and availability of secondary and...

Advanced technology repurposes existing lead acid manufacturing infrastructure to expedite the deployment of better batteries Richmond, California – July 7, 2023 – Enzinc, a pioneering developer of advanced rechargeable zinc battery technology, was awarded the...

Why are Life Cycle Assessments becoming an increasingly important means of evaluating cleantech performance and economics? First, consumers, businesses, insurers and regulators are increasingly denouncing greenwashing, and demanding more fact- and science-based...

Startup ZincFive, maker of a novel nickel-zinc battery for stationary storage applications, has brought its total investment raised since founding seven years ago to more than US$200 million. The Oregon, US-headquartered company said it has successfully closed...

TORONTO, June 21, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--e-Zinc, the company enabling sustainable, long-duration energy storage with its zinc-air battery, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s "Technology Pioneers." e-Zinc utilizes zinc as the...

BRISBANE, Australia, June 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Redflow Limited (ASX: RFX), a global leader in clean energy storage, announced today that its safe, scalable, and sustainable flow batteries have been funded and approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC)...

As battery developers continue to enhance their products, both through continued engineering and chemical additives, rechargeable zinc batteries are competing well in the energy storage space. Most ZBI members are zinc battery developers, but rather than creating a...

Maplewell Energy, a virtual power plant developer, and zinc-battery developer Urban Electric Power (UEP) have entered into a strategic partnership. Maplewell will use UEP batteries in VPPs throughout North America for commercial and industrial customers. The storage...

Redflow Limited, supplier of a unique zinc-bromine flow battery based in Australia, has been approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for the state’s Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP). This is notable as Redflow is one of the few...

Newly-appointed CCO and US country manager Balki Iyer discussed e-Zinc’s technology, go-to-market strategy, projects and more during an interview at Energy Storage Summit USA last week. Iyer, who joined after two years as CCO for another zinc battery firm Eos, also...

Power generators have faced challenges the past few years when it comes to sourcing equipment, and in some cases workers. The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, notably issues with supply chains, still ripples across the industry. Some of the logistical problems...

Zinc-air flow battery company Zinc8 Energy Solutions has won US$9 million in state tax credits for its new manufacturing facility in Ulster County, New York. The Vancouver-based company has been approved for a grant from Empire State Development, New York state’s...

US energy efficiency and renewables company Ameresco has entered into a “strategic relationship” with Australian flow battery provider Redflow. Redflow makes flow batteries based on a zinc-bromine electrolyte, following up deployments in markets including Australia,...

Advancements in energy storage, including new battery types and longer-duration batteries, are driving innovation in the sector. Retired power generation plants are being repurposed as storage sites, and the residential and commercial and industrial (C&I) sectors...

Lithium-ion batteries play an essential role in the fight against climate change. In fact, Li-ion–based technology is widely used both in electric vehicles (EVs), in which lightweight and high-performance batteries capable of supporting a high number of...

Alternatives to lead-acid and lithium batteries are gaining market share because they provide the growing number of energy storage reliant systems with new opportunities to reduce costs, increase performance, and improve environmental sustainability. These emerging...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--e-Zinc, the company enabling sustainable, long-duration energy storage with its zinc-air battery, announced today that its CEO James Larsen was named one of Canada’s 2023 Clean50 in the research and development category. Larsen was selected...

SENS SuperTorque 8Z Genset Starting System solves the #1 problem with emergency generators: starting battery failure. Unless lead-acid starting batteries on gensets are replaced every one to three years, they fail suddenly, without warning. Even if replaced this...

Lithium-ion technology has long been the gold standard for a rechargeable energy storage system, but the lithium supply chain is not up to snuff here in the US and elsewhere around the world. That leaves room for alternative systems to edge into the market. The latest...

Salient Energy says it has completed safety testing with Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for its proprietary zinc-ion energy storage battery, an important step on the road to market. UL is part of a science safety enterprise that organizes essential testing for...

Batteries Events 2022, held last week in Lyon, France, hosted a special session on zinc batteries. Other special sessions were dedicated to sodium-ion batteries and lead-acid batteries. Having all these sessions at one of the largest battery events in Europe tells me...

Rechargeable zinc manganese dioxide batteries are based on the same tried and tested chemistry as the familiar household AA alkaline cell. Investments in the technology at City College of New York, starting in 2008 under Professor Sanjoy Banerjee, have helped bring...

WATTMORE, a climate tech start-up building an adaptive Energy Management Software platform for managing and operating the coming wave of scalable energy storage projects, has been chosen along with battery innovator Urban Electric Power to participate in the Resilient...

The US state of California is providing US$31 million for a long duration energy storage project combining vanadium flow and zinc-hybrid batteries, the first grant from a US$380 million package. The funding is going to microgrid developer Indian Energy LLC for a...

Why microgrids increasingly require multiple battery chemistries The Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid features a 2.2MW solar PV array that is DC-coupled to a 2MW (9MWh) battery energy storage system. (Image courtesy Redwood Coast Energy Authority) Contributed by Tim...

E-zinc unhurriedly chasing long duration with 3+ days storage We bumped briefly into E-Zinc of Canada a few weeks back and went back for a chat with its CEO James Larsen, which Rethink Energy customers can view in our “forecast and data” segment as a video interview....

DARTMOUTH, Nova Scotia, May 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Salient Energy (“Salient”), a company developing proprietary zinc-ion batteries as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries in stationary energy storage, today announced that it has formalized a partnership with...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), supported by Beta-I, developed the Clean Energy Accelerator 2.0, a unique mentorship and co-innovation opportunity for mature cleantech startups. The AWS Clean Energy Accelerator is designed to encourage co-innovation and acceleration...

The Urban Electric Power battery at EverZinc’s headquarters in Eijsd, Netherlands. “This is our first European installation, and one of several high-profile installations we’ll be announcing in the coming months” said Sanjoy Banerjee, founder, Executive Chairman and...

PORTLAND, Oregon—(May, 2022)— Kaizen Clean Energy (KCE), a leader in hydrogen and Energy as a Service solutions, and ZincFive®, the world leader in nickel-zinc battery-based solutions for immediate power applications, announced today that they are developing an...

EDISON, N.J., April 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: EOSE) ("Eos"), a leading provider of safe, scalable, efficient, and sustainable zinc-based energy storage systems, today announced that it has entered into a $200 million common...

As the world moves towards adopting renewable energy as its primary energy source, one emerging concern is energy storage. While current batteries, mostly built around lithium-ion technologies, are playing an integral role in the transition, their limitations aren’t...

Company looks to convert existing lead acid manufacturing infrastructure to rapidly deploy better batteries RICHMOND, Calif. – 27 April. 2022 – Enzinc Inc., an advanced rechargeable zinc battery developer, was selected for a competitive $1.8 million California Energy...

Just in time for Earth Day, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has announced that it has replaced tens of thousands of pounds of toxic batteries with a more environmentally friendly alternative. The batteries, which protect the supercomputer’s data center in...

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada / April 19, 2022 / Zinc8 Energy Solutions Inc. ("Zinc8" or the "Company") (CSE: ZAIR) (OTC: ZAIRF) (FSE: 0E9) is pleased to announce the Company has been named a "Best-in-Class" solution in the Energy Storage Category for the Real...

Zinc is a vital material that has a multitude of uses in many different fields. With a variety of chemistries and numerous applications, what zinc batteries need is a unified voice, and that is why the International Zinc Association (IZA) launched the Zinc Battery...

Zinc: versatile, abundant and very promising for energy storage across a range of applications and technologies. From data centres to long-duration storage for the grid, this metal looks increasingly likely to play a part in the future of the energy transition, writes...

In battery storage, there is no silver bullet chemistry type and as we move towards more ambitious decarbonization goals, room is being made for diverse systems. As an old technology with new vitality, zinc-based batteries are edging closer to commercialization,...

Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: EOSE) (“Eos”), a leading provider of safe, scalable, efficient, and sustainable zinc-based energy storage systems, today announced it entered into a master supply agreement with Bridgelink Commodities, LLC (“Bridgelink”) for...

Steve Jennings at ZincFive spoke at Sustainability LIVE about the difficulties of battery energy storage and how ZincFive leverages sustainable components. To read the full article from Sustainability Magazine click here.

Urban Electric Power and Alchemy Industrial announced a design and engineering partnership to launch Ohm Core, a residential energy storage system based on rechargeable alkaline batteries that charge seamlessly from the grid. To read the full article from Renewable...

Eos Energy Enterprises, the NASDAQ-listed US manufacturer of zinc-based battery storage technology, has secured an equipment financing deal that will aid its efforts to increase manufacturing capacity. The agreement, worth US$25 million, has been made with Trinity...

Aesir Technologies and Manila's Eramen Minerals partnership is to construct 1.5 GWh Nickel Zinc batteries in the Philippines. To read the full article from KTVN click here.

California officials expect zinc energy-storage technologies to help the state attain 100-percent clean energy by 2045, proving cheaper and safer than lithium-ion while holding a charge longer. “Some of them are looking for 25 to 50 hours of storage,” said Mike...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is exploring future potential uses for its zinc-based batteries that provide a safer, reusable alternative to other types of batteries. In particular, the zinc-based batteries would provide the Navy an option instead of rechargeable...

While lead-acid is the established UPS battery technology and Li-ion is more energy dense, nickel-zinc is a better all-round technology, says ZincFive’s Aaron Schott. To read the full article from Data Centre Dynamics click here.

If necessity is the mother of invention, potential profit has to be the father. Both incentives are driving an effort to transform zinc batteries from small, throwaway cells often used in hearing aids into rechargeable behemoths that could be attached to the power...

Pick up a newspaper and it’s more likely than not you’ll see a mention of lithium’s role in electric vehicles and, increasingly, energy storage. These batteries serve valuable purposes, but what you don’t see mentioned are the limitations of the applications of...

Æsir Technologies, Inc. provides nickel-zinc energy storage solutions to the aerospace, defense, medical, and critical infrastructure (including data center) markets. To read the article from Data Center Dynamics click here.

Researchers at Hanyang University in South Korea recently designed a new type of zinc-air pouch cell that can outperform other commercially available battery technologies. Please click here to read the article on Techxplore.

Imagine you operate a business and someone tells you that with one easy change you can double your output, reduce your expenditures and be safer and environmentally friendly – all at the same time. That is in essence what customers of nickel-zinc (NiZn) batteries in...

Ron MacDonald, President and CEO of Zinc8 Energy Solutions, provided POWER with insight into his company’s technology and its advantages when it comes to energy storage installations. To read the article from POWER Magazine click here.

Zinc8 Energy Solutions has secured C$15 million ($11.8 million) in equity financing to help to commercialise its zinc-air flow battery for large-scale electricity storage. To read the article from Batteries and Energy Storage Technology Magazine click here.

Inherently safe, and using the same format as lithium-ion batteries, zinc-ion chemistry is contending for the title of number one battery chemistry. Ryan Brown, co-founder and CEO of Salient Energy makes the case for using zinc-ion batteries in stationary energy...

As the world aims to reduce carbon emissions and introduce greater amounts of renewables into the energy mix there is a clear need for higher energy density batteries that meet the modern triumvirate of: safety, non-toxicity and recyclability. ZincFive talks to BEST...

With rising sea levels a global concern we’re all looking for a faster transition to renewable energy and supporting that with batteries. Zinc may not be the obvious choice for energy storage but it is cheap and has a high specific energy density. Dr Mike McDonagh...