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Form Energy Co-Founder Mateo Jaramillo

Watt It Takes

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What Kind of Battery Doesn't Solve a Curtailment Curve?

I looked at that curtailment curve, and the light bulb went off and said, surely, this is going to be nonlinear from here on out. And so what kind of battery not only solves a curtailment problem, but allows you to fully replace natural gas? I wanted to do that as a thought experiment, because in many ways, I just wanted to have that question answered. It took a couple months of sort of speed dating, if you will, to figure out that that's what we wanted to do. We like the idea of having two technical shots on the table. The culture of the company became the right way for us to go about it.

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