Smart Grid Today Podcast

Jared Lazerson is CEO of MGX Minerals, a firm that about a year ago bought ZincNyx, a company with a proprietary and very compelling zinc-air-flow electricity storage technology that combines a zinc-potassium electrolyte, an air scrubber to get the oxygen it needs, and separate charging and discharging components comprising a product that could be scaled up for a very affordable answer to the age-old problem of electricity storage for electric utilities and industries. The firm is scaling up production of the systems now to pair with solar deployments and the basic version can store close to a megawatt, he told us. It can deliver a week’s worth of power or even more and the potential for future scaling depends mostly on deploying containers of the electrolyte which, according to Lazerson, can be remarkably affordable. The technology is environmentally benign and virtually free of the risk of catching fire, too.