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Malta Inc stores electricity as heat in molten salt and cold in antifreeze for days or weeks, enabling long-duration grid storage from cheap renewable energy.
Malta Inc is a long-duration energy storage company founded in 2018 and backed by Alphabet's X development lab and Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The company develops a grid-scale electrothermal energy storage system that converts excess electricity into heat stored in molten salt and cold stored in antifreeze, then converts the temperature differential back to electricity using a heat engine when needed. Unlike lithium-ion batteries that are limited to four to six hours of storage, Malta's system can store energy economically for dozens of hours, potentially enabling renewable energy to serve demand across multi-day weather events. The technology uses standard industrial components including heat exchangers and turbines at commodity prices, aiming for lower capital cost than electrochemical alternatives at long durations. Malta is developing commercial demonstration projects to validate system performance at grid scale. The company represents the electrothermal approach to long-duration storage, competing with iron-air batteries, flow batteries, and compressed air storage for the multi-hour to multi-day storage market that lithium-ion cannot economically address.
Stem Inc operates an AI-driven energy storage optimization platform that maximizes the value of battery assets for commercial and industrial customers.
Stem Inc is a publicly traded clean energy technology company founded in 2009 that operates Athena, an AI-driven energy management platform for commercial and industrial battery storage systems. The platform analyzes energy pricing, grid signals, demand patterns, and weather data in real time to optimize when battery systems charge and discharge, maximizing revenue and minimizing electricity costs for customers. Stem manages a portfolio of battery assets across thousands of commercial and industrial sites including offices, manufacturers, schools, and utilities, aggregating them as a virtual power plant. The company went public in 2021 via SPAC and has grown its managed storage portfolio to over 2 gigawatt-hours. Stem partners with battery manufacturers and energy developers to provide the software layer that makes battery assets financially performant throughout their operating lives. As the cost of battery storage declines and grid services markets expand, Stem's AI optimization platform becomes increasingly valuable in extracting maximum economic return from deployed storage assets.
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