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Adoption, Deals, and Tech
New COO for EOS
Eos Energy welcomes John Mahaz as the zinc battery firm’s new COO. Mahaz comes with formidable operations experience – serving most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations for Europe and the Americas at multibillion-dollar global manufacturing solutions provider Jabil Inc. Read the announcement.
Water-Based Deep Dives
LDES and the Future-Proof Energy System
Read two recent stories — each linked below — on how the future of global energy systems depends on aqueous LDES.
1. Australia: The Data on LDES and the Energy System
- A new report from Australia’s Clean Energy Council (CEC) finds that “long duration storage technologies will play a key role in maintaining the security and reliability of Australia’s energy system as more renewables are brought online and as coal generation retires.”
- The report pays particular attention to Alternative, non-lithium LDES such as compressed air, thermal energy and redox flow batteries.
2. US: Five years to seize the LDES opportunity
- “The impact of LDES expands beyond decarbonization; it enables an affordable, secure and resilient energy system” argues Julia Souder, CEO, Long Duration Energy Storage Council.
- Souder lays out the steps that governments, regulators and financial institutions must act on to fully realize the LDES opportunity in the next five years.
↪ Read Souder’s op-ed in Energy Storage News.
Mark Your Calendars
Event Spotlight: Smoother Pilot Lines, More Competitive LDES Manufacturing
Getting pilot line capabilities right is critical to giving the US a competitive edge in energy storage manufacturing. So Argonne National Laboratory has announced a Workshop on Pilot Lines for Emerging Energy Storage Technologies, focused on mitigating pilot line bottlenecks for emerging technologies in such areas as lead acid, zinc anode, sodium ion, solid state, separator/membrane, and power electronics technologies.
↪ Details from Sue Babinec, Program Lead – Grid Storage at Argonne National Laboratory, on LinkedIn.
Two Chances to Meet Octet
Octet’s Chief Commercial Officer Emily Dickens will present in two events this fall:
- As a speaker in the International Zinc Association’s 2025 Zinc Metal Roundtable (Nov 5 – 7) Learn more
- As co-chair of the Zinc Battery Committee at NAATBatt’s Sodium-Zinc Battery Workshop (Nov 18-19). Details & Registration
We’ll see you soon.
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