RE: Actual Competition28 Jun 2023 20:21
Hi BESST, today's RNS holds some of the answers:
"Mistral is targeting the best LCOS of any BESS, bar none, and to beat years early the U.S. Department of Energy's LCOS target of $50/MWh by 2030."
'Bar none' suggests to me that it it will have a lower cost than any other batter chemistry/technology. What makes you fear that it will be vanadium that falls by the wayside instead of iron or zinc batteries? Vanadium Flow Batteries are the most mature of the group, with the first operational battery dating back to the 1980's. Over the last few decades they have been proven operationally at ever increasing scales. However, to my knowledge iron and zinc batteries are more relatively recent inventions (and whilst clearly they are gathering some attention, funding and orders in the states) perhaps they have not yet been through the same rigours of prolongued deployment, testing and iterative development as vanadium flow? It may be more fair to assess the relative merits of zinc and iron after more established deployment.