The most overlooked story in battery stocks today is Vanadium, and it’s easy to understand why.
Vanadium batteries, which contain no lithium and boast operational lives of up to 25 years or 25,000 charge cycles, will never go into your fancy new smartphone or the hottest new electric vehicle to hit the market this year.
Instead, they’ll be supplying storage capacity to solar and wind farms across the nation and doing their part to slowly and quietly decentralize our aging power grid.
For savvy investors, the recipe couldn’t get much better.
Because utility-scale power storage is the fastest growing of the major rechargeable battery segments.
These are the biggest batteries in the world — a crucial element for any kind of renewable energy production. Our analysts have traveled the world over, dedicated to finding the best and most profitable investments in the global energy markets. All you have to do to join our Energy and Capital investment community is sign up for the daily newsletter below.
And vanadium, which outlasts the current utility-scale storage standard — lithium iron phosphate batteries — by a factor of 3–4, is the clear winner for this very specialized corner of the market.
Economy of Life Span: The Vanadium Edge
Not only do they require no replacement over the life of the power generation facility, but they’re far more durable and present zero fire risk.
So why, you might ask, is vanadium not the standard elsewhere?
That too has a simple explanation. Vanadium batteries have a lower energy density, and are therefore bigger and heavier than lithium batteries of similar capacity, and they lose the battle in markets where size and weight are a deciding consideration.
With electric vehicles and portable devices thus out of the picture, vanadium batteries as a whole get shuffled off the front page for most investors.
Look deeper into the future of the renewables industry, however, and it becomes clear that vanadium has a future that will span decades, with dramatic growth across all the world’s major regions.
Right now, one of the world leaders in utility scale vanadium flow battery development is a small firm based out of the Scottish town of Bathgate.
Its market capitalization puts it squarely in the microcap category, but this company’s growth trajectory projects a much bigger and brighter future.
From The U.K. to Washington, D.C., Vanadium Is Quietly Taking Over
Last fall, the U.S. Department of Energy agreed to purchase 84 megawatts of storage from this company for use in six sites across the U.S.
That’s an enormous contract for such a small firm, and an equally significant vote of confidence from the biggest money spender in the world — our federal government.
Unfortunately, with the economic turbulence being what it is (this week’s market bloodletting is an excellent illustration of just how little stability there is), this stock hasn’t been responding to news the way one might expect.
That makes some investors jittery, but it should make smart investors eager.
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