Up In 2026: Form Energy Rollout

Nov 4, 2025 | Aqueous Battery Brief

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Form Energy’s First Deployment

Iron-air juggernaut Form Energy has begun deploying its first commercial batteries. The 100-hour LDES applications will be installed at Great River Energy’s multi-day storage project in Minnesota, which is expected to be fully operational next year. Read about the milestone – including the astounding 100 km of material that’s gone through the company’s factory – in Latitude Media.

ZincFive Launches a Battery for AI

Nickel-Zinc battery firm ZincFive has unveiled a UPS battery cabinet designed specifically for AI data center workloads. The technology — named BC 2 AI — is powered by a 90Ah ultra-high-rate nickel-zinc battery, optimized for sub-5-minute runtimes, and built to absorb transient loads from GPU clusters and AI training environments. Read the press release.

Eos and Frontier’s 228 MWh Order

UK energy developer Frontier Power has placed a strategic 228 MWh order for Eos Energy’s Eos Z3™ energy storage systems. The order, which runs across Frontier’s storage and grid-reliability portfolio, is the the first under the firms’ 5 GWh framework agreement. It additionally marks a deepening of the companies’ existing partnership: Frontier has also incorporated Eos into its 11 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of LDES projects which advanced to round two of Ofgem’s Cap-and-Floor program in the UK. Get the full story in Eos’ announcement.

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Two Chances to Hear Octet

Octet’s Chief Commercial Officer Emily Dickens will present at two events next month:

  • As a speaker in the International Zinc Association’s 2025 Zinc Metal Roundtable (Nov 5 – 7).
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  • As co-chair of the Zinc Battery Committee at NAATBatt’s Sodium-Zinc Battery Workshop (Nov 18-19).
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