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Eos Finds a Partner in Siemens to Scale an Unusual Battery

Eos Finds a Partner in Siemens to Scale an Unusual Battery

Jan 30, 2017

It’s hard enough convincing investors to trust advanced battery technology when it’s the increasingly recognizable lithium-ion variety. New Jersey-based battery startup Eos has a different challenge: pitching a technology few have heard of,* because the company was the first to invent it.

Its major tool in overcoming that challenge is price. Eos team members say they are already selling their system at $160 per kilowatt-hour for high-volume orders. That’s the DC system cost, so it doesn’t include inverters or installation, but it trounces the advanced battery competition and has raised many an eyebrow in the industry.

Viridity Energy’s Business to be Acquired by Ormat Technologies

Viridity Energy’s Business to be Acquired by Ormat Technologies

Jan 4, 2017

North American Clean Energy – (04 Jan 2017) Viridity Energy, Inc., a leading demand response, demand management, and battery storage solutions provider, announced that Ormat Technologies, a global geothermal and renewable energy company that has over five decades of experience, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of Viridity’s business and assets in a cash transaction.
Ormat will pay Viridity’s shareholders an initial consideration of $35 million at closing. Additional contingent consideration will be payable in two installments upon the achievement of certain performance milestones measured at the end of fiscal years 2017 and 2020.