Collaborative effort sponsored by New Brunswick Innovation Foundation to accelerate Malta’s breakthrough long-duration energy storage technologyFREDERICTON, New Brunswick, November 15, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Malta Inc. and the Off-site Construction Research Centre (OCRC) at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) announced approval of New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) funding to accelerate deployment of long-duration energy storage. Malta is a leading innovator of grid-scale, long-duration energy storage.The grant will help fund a study evaluating the applicability of advanced modularization techniques and their impact on the optimization and rapid deployment of Malta’s Pumped-Heat Energy Storage (PHES) system. Malta’s PHES technology, which can store energy from eight hours to eight days or longer, improves the resilience and efficiency of electricity grids and allows…
