The Rise of Large-Scale Energy Storage Technologies

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For renewable energy to be both technically and financially feasible, there's no question that energy storage technologies are going to be needed. Fortunately though, large-scale energy storage startups are popping up like mushrooms and each with their potential. Most notably (to me) are Ambri's liquid metal battery, Aquion Energy's aqueous hybrid-ion batteries and Primus Power's zinc-bromine flow battery. A nice start would be this TED talk from Donald Sadoway who worked on the liquid metal battery.

 

 

Just for clarification, the name changed from LMBC to Ambri Inc. What's more, as quoted from this source

 

 

Ambri raised a total of USD $35 million of venture capital in its latest round of funding, building on the USD $15 million funding it attracted in 2012 from the likes of Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, Total (energy company) and others. The funds will enable Ambri to build its first commercial-scale manufacturing plant for liquid metal batteries and deliver commercial battery systems to customers.

 

The next video shows that Aquion Energy is already producing batteries for customers and will ramp things up next year.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBsbODAq4VY