e-Zinc and Toyota Tsusho Canada Sign Pilot Project Deal for Energy Storage Systems

Toronto-based sustainable energy storage company e-Zinc announced that it has collaborated with Toyota Tsusho Canada for a pilot project to further test and validate how commercial scale e-Zinc energy storage systems can reliably provide long-duration energy storage. 

e-Zinc has multiple upcoming field demonstration projects, including the company’s $1.3 Million USD project with the California Energy Commission. The TTCI project is scheduled for spring 2023.

“The most important aspect of this relationship is that TTCI’s interest extends far beyond this initial project – TTCI has identified e-Zinc as a high potential company with strategic alignment to its business,” said James Larsen, CEO, e-Zinc. “This project sets the stage for TTCI to support e-Zinc with manufacturing and supply chain capabilities, sales, and distribution support, as well as project deployment and service for a variety of market applications (e.g., remote mines, off-grid car dealerships, hospitals on weak grid, etc.).”

The project will be hosted at Eurus Energy America Corporation’s Bull Creek wind facility in Borden County, Texas. The pilot program will store excess wind generation capacity in the e-Zinc battery system at Bull Creek.

“This pilot demonstration between TTCI and e-Zinc is a key step in validating e-Zinc’s value proposition for integration and firming of renewable power,” said Sara Chamberlain, Managing Director of Energy Foundry, an early investor in e-Zinc. “The combination of e-Zinc’s innovation and TTCI’s project implementation expertise will propel the company forward into commercialized success.”

This pilot project will deliver a firsthand experience with e-Zinc’s disruptive technology and potentially lead to future manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial opportunities between TTCI and e-Zinc.