Coal State Sells Coal-Killing Iron-Air Energy Storage To Other States

Oh the irony, it burns. On the one hand, public officials in the iconic coal-producing state of West Virginia love to rant against renewable energy investing, while the other hand has loaded up a $290 million incentive package to reel in the Massachusetts-based US energy storage startup Form Energy. The company is setting up its first factory in West Virginia, to mass produce new long duration iron-air batteries that will help kick coal out of the power generation picture all around the US. Form Energy crossed the CleanTechnica radar back in 2021, when the company introduced its new long duration energy storage solution to the…