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Founded 2012
Industry
Electricity
James Larsen (P.Eng., MBA)
CEO
Dr. Gregory Zhang (Ph.D.)
Founder and CTO
Pieter de Koning (P.Eng., MBA)
VP Engineering
Scott Peever, (P.Eng., MBA)
VP Business Development
Articles
- e-Zinc Raises (CAD) $2.3 Mn to Accelerate Commercialization of its Energy Storage Tech
- Canada’s e-Zinc Raises Millions to Commercialize Long-Duration Zinc Energy
- e-Zinc Wins up to $700K as a Finalist in Impact Canada’s Charging the Future Challenge
- e-Zinc Named One of Caltech’s Rocket Fund 2020 Awardees
- e-Zinc wins a $1.6 million grant as one of ten winners of Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada
- Global Cleantech 100, 2023
About the Company
Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto-based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbon energy future.
About the Solution
e-Zinc’s technology is a paradigm shift in energy storage. By storing electrical energy within zinc metal, the system can store hundreds of hours of energy capacity while being significantly cheaper than battery technologies.
e-Zinc’s technology decouples power from energy, allowing low-cost scaling of storage capacity based on three principles:
1. Zinc metal, which has a high energy density and is inexpensive, is used as the energy carrier.
2. The zinc metal is detached from electrodes allowing the metal to be stored independently at a low cost, unlike rechargeable batteries in which the energy-bearing metal is fixed on the electrodes.
3. The storage space is located within the same electrochemical cell as the charging and discharging electrodes, enabling a simple operation.