CNBC Article on Battery Tech11 Dec 2019 12:56
Article on CNBC on the size of the energy storage market in the US focused on stationary storage:https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/10/tesla-gm-bet-big-on-lithium-ion-but-gates-bezos-fund-flow-battery.html"The U.S. energy storage market is expected to grow by a factor of 12 in the next five years, from 430MW deployed in 2019 to more than 5GW and a value of more than $5 billion"Mentions Iron Flow Battery investments..."Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the group of private investors led by Bill Gates and fellow billionaires Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson and Jack Ma, invested in iron-flow battery maker ESS in November"and Silicon Anode technology..." Tesla employee No. 7, Gene Berdichevsky, who worked on the original Tesla Roadster’s battery, is now CEO of Sila Nanotechnologies, which took in $70 million from VC investors in 2018 for its silicon anode battery technology."So nothing on VFRBs, but grid scale storage capturing the attention of investors on this level along with news outlets like CNBC shows which direction the market is heading.Anyone know much about Iron Flow batteries vs VFRBs?Apologies if already posted.