An electrical engineer works on Form Energy's 2022 battery module in the company's lab in Berkeley, California. Image courtesy of Form Energy Share Weirton, West Virginia has iron in its blood. The ...

Battery experts can generate a charge out of about anything these days. Form Energy is adding rust to the list. Experts developed iron-air batteries that can use the chemistry that occurs when metal ...

When there’s extra wind or solar power on the grid in the Netherlands, some of it now goes to a new type of battery made from just three components: iron, air, and water. Called an iron-air battery, ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking hydrogel-based iron-air battery that can be assembled from common warm paste, giving first responders a potentially life-saving new power option. The new ...

There’s an exciting new development in the global race to discover next-gen battery tech. Iron-air batteries are finally ready to be tested in real-world applications, with major disruptive potential ...

This demonstration battery is a pilot for a program in which Xcel will begin using iron-air batteries to replace its coal-fired power plants, in a way that makes use of existing transmission ...

Since electricity was first deployed, there has been a missing link: storage. The lead-acid battery was developed in 1859 and has been refined to the practical, utilitarian box in cars today. Gone are ...

Construction of an iron-air battery storage system at the soon-to-be-retired Comanche Generating Station south of Pueblo could get underway early next year. Xcel Energy and its partners, Form Energy ...

The facility will use iron, water and air as key components to produce batteries at less cost and with longer storage duration than those made from lithium ion, which require hard to find critical ...

Iron-air batteries use a reversible rusting process to store and release electricity using abundant materials like iron and water. These “100-hour batteries” could solve renewable energy’s biggest ...