Business View Magazine | April/May 2022

59 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4 and SunGrid Solutions, one of Canada’s leading system integrators. Although the company already has a fully functional deployment at its offices in Toronto, Ontario, Larsen sees this as a significant technical milestone. “It will be the first time demonstrating our technology as a holistic system, incorporating the power electronics and software and controls, all connected to solar and the grid to deliver power to site,” Larsen explains. “This project will demonstrate how our solution can serve various use-case scenarios, whether resilience and backup power, renewable energy generation integration on-grid, or remote/off-grid power.” He also points out that the deployment will demonstrate some key differences between lithium battery solutions and e-Zinc’s zinc battery solution. He clarifies, “Two striking differences are battery size and temperature resistance. Owing to density, lithium batteries are typically smaller, making them ideal for applications like mobile phones, laptops, and EVs. Our batteries are much bigger and ideal for stationary storage systems like on a farm or behind a data center. Secondly, zinc batteries can withstand extreme temperatures with some estimates showing ranges of negative 30 to 60 degrees Celsius, although the actual range could be higher once we fully characterize the battery’s performance.” With so much on the horizon for e-Zinc, any startup would be overwhelmed by the sheer number of possibilities. However, for Larsen and his team, containing all this salient potential in a simple growth plan offers clarity of vision. “We think of our short and medium-term market e-Z INC