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Adoption, Deals, and Tech
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$7.5M for XL Batteries
Organic flow battery manufacturer XL Batteries has secured $7.5M in funding from Merrin Investors. XL says the funds will advance its pathway to commercialization and further solidify its position as an LDES leader. More in ESS News.
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University Flow Battery Pipeline
A team at Stanford University has launched a zinc-ion flow battery. It’s now available for licensing.
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BESSt Bows New Redox
The BESSt Company, founded by Tesla alum Joley Michaelson, has launched a zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery designed for sectors that demand uninterrupted power, data centers, cold storage, and AI infrastructure. Read the press release.
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Catch the Latest Battery Fire Standards
The US National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has launched the newest edition of its highly influential battery storage safety standard, NFPA 855. Marked as a significant upgrade from the 2023 version, the 2025 edition addresses both lithium and non-lithium electrochemical storage technologies. Story in Energy Storage News.
Water-Based Deep Dives
How do Form Batteries Work?
Get a plain-language explainer on the engineering behind — and huge promise of — Form Energy’s iron-air batteries, in this article + video from Interesting Engineering.
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Watch: Æsir’s Mission-Critical Zinc Tech
In the first episode of Octet’s new video series, Aqueous Energy, Æsir Technologies CTO Dr. Adam Weisenstein shares how his company is taking zinc-based batteries from lab scale to Department of Defense deployment. See it now.
Mark Your Calendars
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 there.
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