"This is the largest announced energy storage project in the world. It definitively confirms the business case for what we call multiday-duration storage. Form's iron-air battery technology offers multiday durations intended to keep the power on during prolonged severe weather events, peak summer demand, or just a particularly cloudy week that weakens solar power."
"The idea is that renewable power-when coupled with shorter- and long-duration batteries-can finally shed the reliability concerns of critics and offer the equivalent of baseload power provided by fossil fuel generation and nuclear power. Google is the first hyperscaler to contract for the battery tech."
"Nine-year-old Form is opening its Form Factory 1 manufacturing hub in West Virginia this year and is now ready to scale up. The plan is to take the company public on a relatively near-term horizon, likely next year. For the scale of company that we are becoming, for the kinds of deals that we're doing with our customers, it is beneficial to us to be a public company."
Google is building a data center complex south of Minneapolis powered by renewable energy and Form Energy's iron-air battery technology, which can store and dispatch power for up to 100 hours. Unlike conventional battery systems that typically provide four to eight hours of storage, Form's multiday-duration batteries maintain power during extended weather events, peak demand periods, and cloudy weeks. This partnership represents a significant milestone for long-duration energy storage, as Google becomes the first major hyperscaler to contract this technology. Form Energy, a nine-year-old company, is scaling manufacturing operations and plans to go public soon. The project demonstrates that renewable energy combined with advanced battery storage can provide reliable baseload power equivalent to fossil fuel and nuclear generation.
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