The Anonymous Widower

Malta Energy Storage System Is Looking Forward To First Pilot

The title of this post is the same as that of this article on Tech Eplore.

This is the first paragraph.

Malta has received a round of funding and is graduated from “project” to group that can sail. The Cambridge, MA-based company is focused on the storage of electro-thermal energy and the funding put the group in celebration mode this month. In return, the company is turning up the volume on its potential role in the future of energy storage—namely, working out salt-based electro-thermal energy storage.

The article goes on to describe how the system works and I suggest you read it.

This is the last paragraph.

Malta CEO Ramya Swaminathan said the challenge ahead is about design and manufacturing, in Xconomy. Swaminathan said customers were expected to come from a variety of points in the energy system. Such as? She said they expect “developers with wind or solar projects who want firm power, to grid scale applications that can be in the hundreds of megawatts range, to critical backup for data centers, to isolated grid systems like island economies.”

I believe the technology has a lot going for it.

• It has heavyweight financial backing.
• The technology is very conventional and well-understood, which will ease manufacture and maintenance.
• No complex or expensive raw materials are needed.
• I would suspect that few, if any dangerous chemicals are needed.
• It would have developing country applications.
• They would seem to have a large capacity.

I shall be following Malta Inc. with interest.

December 24, 2018 - Posted by AnonW | Energy Storage | Bill Gates, Malta Inc