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About the Episode:

Nico speaks with Energy Vault's Co-founder & CEO, Robert Piconi, as he discusses some of the limitations of current battery energy storage technologies and how Energy Vault offers unique solutions to these challenges. Piconi explains how leveraging customer feedback helped the company evolve its sustainable, cost-effective strategies using hardware, new composite materials and software. Their EVx modular gravity energy storage system is a model of human ingenuity and represents a step forward in evolving how we think about the kinds of energy storage solutions needed to bridge the gap between fossil fuels and renewables in this energy transition.

Helpful RESOURCES:

Connect with Robert Piconi on LinkedIn

Follow Energy Vault on LinkedIn and check out their website.

Key Takeaways:

1. Gravity Battery: Energy Vault’s gravity storage system can be a sustainable and cost-effective alternative to lithium-ion batteries and pumped hydro for achieving long-duration storage without environmental concerns.
2. Product Evolution: Energy Vault evolved its product based on customer feedback, leading to modular building-based systems.
3. Flexibility: Powerful software and a flexible approach to storage technology ensures that Energy Vault is able to respond to customers’ short & long-duration requirements.

Videos:

Bill Gross - The Single Biggest Reason why Startups Succeed

Bill Gross speaking to Standford Energy

BOOKS MENTIONED AND RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Five Dysfunctions
of a Team
by Patrick Lencioni

Good to Great
by Jim Collins

Simon Sinek Books
Leaders Eat Last &
Start With Why

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