The project is one of several upcoming e-Zinc field demonstration projects including a US$1.3 million project with the California Energy Commission, where its storage will be paired with a solar PV farm and provide 24-48 hours duration. At the time, renewable energy projects by another participating investor, Eni Next, were touted as good locations to trial e-Zinc’s solution.Į-Zinc said the project will potentially lead to future manufacturing, supply chain and commercial opportunities between TTCI and e-Zinc. It comes two months after e-Zinc raised US$25 million to embark on such pilot projects, in a Series A that include Toyota Ventures, the Japanese conglomerate’s venture capital arm. Today EEAC has 567MW of wind and solar power generation assets in the Americas.

Excess wind capacity will be stored in e-Zinc’s battery system and then be used to power buildings at the local facility, the press release said, adding the longer duration suited the intermittency of wind generation.ĮEAC’s parent company Eurus Energy is a 60:40 joint venture between Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company. The project should launch in spring 2023 and will take place at wind power company Eurus Energy America Corporation’s (EEAC) Bull Creek wind facility in Borden County, Texas. TTCI will support installation, integration, and system operation & maintenance (O&M) on the project. The paid demonstration project will test and validate how e-Zinc’s commercial scale solution can provide 24 hours of long-duration energy storage, which e-Zinc said is 10x that of traditional batteries. Zinc-air battery company e-Zinc has entered into a pilot project collaboration with Toyota Tsusho Canada (TTCI) to trial its energy storage system at a wind farm in Texas. A render of e-Zinc’s battery storage next to a solar farm.

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