West Virginia guv signs funding for iron-air battery manufacturing facility

• West Virginia governor Jim Justice on Friday authorized a bill appropriating USD 105 million (EUR 99m) for a battery plant of Form Energy, a Somerville, Massachusetts-based company establishing iron-air battery modern technology that can store power for 100 hours.

The bill was authorized at the previous Weirton Steel mill in Weirton, along the Ohio River, which will end up being home to Form Energy's first industrial battery manufacturing center.

"We eagerly anticipate starting building and construction in the coming months as well as to producing batteries for broad commercialisation starting in 2024," said Form Energy co-founder as well as chief executive Mateo Jaramillo.

It was introduced in December 2022 that Form Energy will certainly partner with West Virginia to build its first plant in the state. The factory, anticipated to produce at least 750 jobs, will certainly represent an investment of up to USD 760 million, with USD 290 countless it coming from the state.

The guv's declaration notes that Form Energy answers the demand for domestically-manufactured energy storage innovations efficient in cost-effectively storing electrical energy for multiple days.

It was recently revealed that Form Energy will certainly deploy 2 10-MW/1,000-MWh energy storage space systems at two retiring coal plants people utility Xcel Energy.