While lithium-ion batteries continue to take the dominant share of new installations by some distance, there are a variety of other technologies looking to complement, combine or even compete with the Samsung SDIs, LG Chems, CATLs and BYDs of this world.
Some are closer to market than others, but even those that are widely accepted as too expensive today, like hydrogen, may have a strong role to play in the future of the decarbonised, decentralised and smarter energy system.
Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited (LON:FAR) is developing the giant Balasausqandiq vanadium deposit in Kyzylordinskaya oblast of southern Kazakhstan. The ore at this deposit is unlike that of nearly all other primary vanadium deposits and is capable of being treated by a much lower cost process.