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Montana Company Licenses Lawrence Livermore Zinc Air Fuel Cell Technology

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based Zinc Air, Inc. ZAI) has obtained exclusive rights from LLNL for the mechanically rechargeable zinc air fuel cell (US Patent 5,434,020) invented by John Cooper, a retired LLNL chemist, who is on the ZAI technical Board of Advisors. Refueling is achieved by replacing the spent electrolyte and adding more zinc pellets.

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NYSERDA awards $1.4M to 6 projects for advanced energy storage technologies; Electromotive and Ioxus for heavy-duty hybrids

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This is the second of three rounds of funding to help members of NY-BEST move promising technologies toward commercialization. Bettergy plans to improve and demonstrate a low-cost zinc air-flow battery that could be used for grid storage applications, including storing renewable electricity. million with a total of $2.2

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Zinc8 Energy Solutions creates wholly owned US Subsidiary in New York State

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presence in New York State is a logical next step as we advance towards full commercialization over the next 24 months. The Zinc8 ESS is a modular Energy Storage System designed to deliver power in the range 20kW - 50MW with capacity of 8 hours of storage duration or higher. market for our technology. Our decision to establish our U.S

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Kentucky-Argonne Partnership to Help Build US Advanced Battery Industry

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In the long-term, the center would help in the development of technologies that would enable a significant increase in energy densities, including lithium-air and zinc-air systems for vehicle applications and advanced batteries for cost efficient and long-life grid power storage applications.

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How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal

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Fossil fuels dominate even though renewable energy generation in many parts of the world now. As renewable energy has steadily gotten cheaper, the installed capacity has grown, to 110 gigawatts. The government of India has set a target of 450 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030. costs less than fossil-fuel-based electricity.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Zn-Air Battery : Zinc Flow Air Battery (ZFAB), the Next Generation Energy Storage for Transportation.

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