Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation

Re:Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation by markvdb on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:14AM (#23113897)

TLDR: first deployment of Form Energy's "aqueous air" grid battery, 1 megawatt, 150 megawatt hour, no tech details.

MIT professor founder, backed by Bill Gates amongst others.

According to MIT tech review [0] , their main line of research is an "air-breathing aqueous sulfur flow battery".

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Re:Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation by impostervt on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:23AM (#23113987)

Ya, it's basically a press release. Does the solution exist or are they going to be developing it as they go? What's it look like?

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Re:Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation by xchaotic on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:26AM (#23114019)

Exactly, is it chemistry based (iron oxide) or pumping water?

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Re:Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation by gwicks56 on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:39AM (#23114138)

According to their website[1], this is the extent of what they have to say about their technology:

The Technology

Form Energy has identified and is developing a novel approach that is low-cost, safe, and scalable. This battery would allow for a 100% renewable, carbon free grid.

Super useful

[1]" https://formenergy.com/about/

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Re:Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation by 1958325146 on Friday May 08, 2020 @09:14AM (#23114479)

It looks like an iron-based chemistry: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=....

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Re:Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation by 1958325146 on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:02PM (#23117616)

Sorry, you have to append a period to a URL to make it work. HN does not believe in URLs that end in periods, apparently.

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