New Zinc-Air Battery is “Cheaper, Safer, and Far Longer Lasting than Lithium-ion”

On a recently Price of Business show, host Kevin Price visited with Ron Macdonald, CEO, Zinc8 Energy Solutions.

Canadian start-up Zinc8’s hybrid flow battery can make wind or solar farms baseload and could transform the utility-scale energy-storage market. A new type of battery is coming onto the market that can store multiple days worth of energy, that does not degrade, cannot possibly explode and is up to five times cheaper than lithium-ion.  All this and more is discussed by claimed its developer as it prepares to pilot the technology in New York state as reported by Recharge magazine.

According to the company’s website, “Mr. MacDonald has over 35 years of both public and private sector experience, ranging from international roles within the Parliament of Canada to serving on the boards of numerous publicly listed resource companies. From 1988 to 1997, he was the Member of Parliament for Halifax, Nova Scotia, during which time he was appointed by the Prime Minister of Canada as Parliamentary Secretary of International Trade. From 1997-2002, Mr. MacDonald was President and CEO of the Council of Forest Industries, a large lumber manufacturing, grading and marketing group, where he developed new markets in China, Korea, India and Japan. In recent years Mr. MacDonald has served as President of NRStor Remote Communities and Mines, a Canadian company focused on partnering with off-grid Indigenous communities and mines to develop renewable energy and energy storage projects.”