Marlborough battery innovator scores South African contract
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Ambri, a Marlborough company specializing in energy storage, announced Thursday that Earth & Wire of South Africa has placed an order for the company’s liquid metal battery system to serve a 300 megawatt alternative energy site in South Africa.
It is the largest energy battery storage system in the country to date, according to a Thursday press release from Ambri. The company will begin shipping batteries for this project in 2024 with installation completed in 2026.
This comes as Eskom, a South African public electricity utility company, plans to decommission between 8,000 and 12,000 megawatts of coal-fueled power plants over the next decade, according to a 2021 Reuters report.
"We are looking forward to working with a dynamic and mission-driven company like Earth & Wire as we expand in the U.S. and globally," said Adam Briggs, chief commercial officer at Ambri, in the press release.
Ambri was founded in Cambridge 2010 by Donald Sadoway, David Bradwell, and Luis Ortiz as the Liquid Metal Battery Corp. with seed money from tech billionaire Bill Gates and the French energy company Total S.A., according to the company’s website.
Earth & Wire is a clean energy company providing over 10,000 megawatts of energy directly to private customers in South Africa. The company plans to build a 20-gigawatt portfolio of wind and solar projects by 2035, according to a 2021 report in Engineering News.
The South African company is owned by Dimsum Group, an investment company in the city of Stellenbosch specializing in clean energy, food security, health, and technology.
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