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Alsym Energy and ERITY form 9GWh deal for sodium-ion battery storage
The partnership targets battery energy storage deployments that could reduce diesel fuel use in Australia’s mining sector.
Alsym Energy and Australian mining services firm ERITY have announced a 9GWh strategic partnership framed as the largest known sodium-ion battery agreement to date in the global mining industry, according to the companies. The deal creates a framework to identify, pursue, and deploy battery energy storage systems across multiple mining use cases.
The partners said the deployments would include micro grid power, support for critical mineral extraction, and AI powered mobile data centers. They also pointed to sodium-ion batteries as carrying lower risk of fire and thermal runaway than lithium-ion batteries, and described sodium as an emerging alternative battery chemistry as major suppliers expand commercial deployments.
Alsym said using sodium-ion batteries will enable significant cuts to diesel fuel consumption for Australia’s mining sector. The company added that it has accumulated 18 GWh of announced commercial deployment agreements in the past two months, including 8.5GWh with ESS and 500MWh with Juniper Energy.
Publicly traded companies Resource Mineral International Limited and Volt Resources Limited are among the adopters referenced in the agreement. ERITY’s chief operating officer Manny Claassens said in a news release that the collaboration is meant to address energy challenges for remote mining operations with limited access to traditional power infrastructure.