Form Energy in the US is also developing this technology, though they haven’t deployed to the grid yet.

As electricity grids get nearer to being 100% renewables, they need to account for <5% of times both solar & wind don’t meet peak electricity demand. Lithium-Ion batteries, which only store electricity for a few hours, aren’t much use here, but Iron-Air batteries will be.

They can store days worth of electricity, and not only that, they are stable and non-flammable. The only chemical reaction taking place is iron oxidizing (rusting).

Ore Energy connects world’s first grid-connected iron-air battery in Delft

  • neo2478@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    The technology is awesome but the article is a mess of repetition and disjointed sentences.

    I’m not sure if it was written by AI or just an incompetent human.

    • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
      15·
      1 month ago

      Seems like a copy-paste mess:

      The company plans to scale to 50 GWh/year by 2030. The company has set an ambitious goal of 50 GWh/year by 2030. To get to this, Yilmaz shared, “First, we need to scale up production rapidly.

      Oh right, to scale up you need to scale up first.