Climate CEOs (by EFI): Scaling Climate Tech Startups #205: James Larsen, CEO of e-Zinc — $100M for Metal Battery. $4T Long Duration Energy Storage Market by 2040. Resilience as a Service. FOAK Financing. Meditation Techniques. Magic Morning Drink.
e-Zinc produces zinc-based long-duration energy storage technology with discharge durations between 10 and 100 hours. They have raised over $100M in funding and are building their first three commercial pilots.
In addition to his role at e-Zinc, James is a Board Director of the Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDESC) and Energy Storage Canada (ESC), as well as a former Manager at Bain and MaRS.
In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways.
- How the long-duration energy storage sector is poised to become a $4T market by 2040
- Why he’s going to market with a “resilience as a service” business model
- Why it’s essential to convert sustainability technology from cost centers into revenue centers
- What Vipassana meditation is, and why he starts his morning with it
🔗 PODCAST SHOW LINKS:
James - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesflarsen?originalSubdomain=ca
eZinc - https://www.e-zinc.ca/
Bhagavad Gita (book) - https://shorturl.at/M73By
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (book) - https://shorturl.at/YIATK
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