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Remember Avalon Battery? I bet you do, if you’ve been in Solar for awhile. They did a huge deal with Nextracker awhile back, and are the OGs of Vanadium Flow batteries.
Did you realize that Avalon merged with UK-based RedT, an outstanding energy storage developer in their own right, and last year formed the leading flow batttery company in the world?
Today’s guest is a pioneering cleantech entrepreneur, product developer and Chief Commercial Officer of the resulting company Invinity Energy Systems. We’re talking about Matt Harper!
Matt was instrumental in the vision and leadership that is now transforming the evolution of what we call Grid storage , and long been a believer in the value creation batteries provide to enable the energy transition that we all desire so much. Matt has been in this industry for a long time and today we get to peek behind the curtain to see how Avalon, now Invinity, came to be.
His expertise is in using advanced technologies to develop revolutionary industrial and commercial products. His passion is in helping companies adopt those products to build sustainable, profitable businesses.
Matt’s career spans pioneering work in electrical energy storage, wastewater treatment, hydrogen generation, and fuel cell vehicles. And his holistic approach to industrial technology development balances technical and operations development with commercial, organizational, and operational lifecycle characteristics.
Developed specifically for high-utilization applications that make low-carbon renewable generation reliable, Invinity's highly scalable, factory-built flow battery products can run continually with no degradation, charging and discharging for over 25 years. Energy storage systems based on Invinity's batteries are safe, reliable, and economical, and range in size from less than 250 kilowatt-hours to tens of megawatt-hours.
Lean in with me us as Nico gets the insider story directly from Matt about the winding road that has led to the successful commercialization of this technology at a time (and category) when MANY others have failed. Hope you like it.
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Even Forbes is excited about it!
The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman
The Great Game - Peter Hopkirk
The Shape of Design - Frank Chimero
The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe