Form Energy, the Bill Gates-backed startup, and Minnesota utility Great River Energy are joining forces to deploy a 1 MW / 150 MWh pilot project in Minnesota. The project harnesses long-duration storage that Form Energy says can significantly outlast its lithium-ion battery utility-scale counterparts currently deployed. This system will be the first commercial deployment of Form Energys proprietary long-duration energy storage system, identified for the first time as an “aqueous air” battery system. If successful, this duration would allow for a fundamentally new reliability function to be provided to the grid from storage, historically only available from thermal generation resources, and can be considered an unprecedented achievement for the storage industry. Link to the news: https://formenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Form-Energy_-GREPilotPress-Release.pdf
