26 February 2024
Invinity Energy Systems
plc
("Invinity" or the "Company")
Strategic Manufacturing
Agreement Signed, Successful Mistral Performance
Test
Invinity Energy Systems plc (AIM:
IES) (AQSE: IES) (OTCQX: IESVF), a leading
global manufacturer of utility-grade energy storage, is pleased to
announce that it has entered into an
agreement with its Taiwanese strategic partner, Everdura, to
undertake domestic manufacturing of its next-generation vanadium
flow battery ("VFB") product, code-named "Mistral", to serve the
Taiwanese and other markets ("the Agreement").
Everdura has been Invinity's
reseller since 1 December 2022. Everdura's parent company,
Everbrite, made a £2.5m strategic investment into the Company which
was announced 22 February 2023. On 14 September 2023, Everdura
placed a 14.4 MWh pre-order for Mistral and entered into a MoU
which proposed a strategic manufacturing partnership with Invinity
which has now been superseded by this Agreement.
Under the Agreement, Everdura will
manufacture Mistral VFBs to fulfil orders it intends to secure
under the terms of the existing reseller agreement which targets
more than 255 MWh of product sales over a three-year period. The
Agreement states that Everdura will pay Invinity a royalty fee
based on a material percentage of the sale price of any Mistral
products sold. Everdura will also utilise Invinity's existing
supply chain and purchase cell stacks directly from the Company,
which will continue to be manufactured by Invinity at its
facilities in the UK and Canada.
In addition, further to its December
2023 Year-End Business Update, Invinity's product development team
has successfully undertaken initial performance testing of the
first operating Mistral prototype. The
Company is delighted to report that these tests have verified
Mistral's fundamental performance targets and operating parameters.
This significant development milestone enables Invinity to conclude
the development of production tooling, processes and procedures
required for manufacturing and delivery of initial Mistral modules
and to build towards the planned commercial launch of the product
later this year.
Separately to the above developments
and in line with its 18 December 2023 announcement, the Board is
very pleased with the level of interest shown in the Company by a
number of potential strategic partners. Discussions with these
parties are now at an advanced stage and continue to progress
positively. On this basis, the Company estimates that it should be
in a position to conclude an agreement with one or more of these
partners within approximately four to six weeks.
Larry Zulch, Chief Executive Officer
at Invinity said:
"Everdura has become an important
strategic partner for Invinity, providing access to the important
Taiwanese market and areas beyond. Our relationship with Everdura
forms a template for regions where we believe we will be better
represented by strong, local partners than by an organisation we
build ourselves. This agreement, like many of our current
activities, is intended to support the forthcoming global launch of
our next-generation product, and with our first product prototype
exhibiting encouraging performance, it is tremendously exciting to
see our vision for Mistral becoming reality."
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Enquiries:
Invinity Energy Systems plc
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+44 (0)20 4551 0361
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Jonathan Marren, Chief Financial
Officer and Chief Development Officer
Joe Worthington, Director of
Communications
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Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Adviser
and Joint Broker)
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+44 (0)20 7523 8000
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Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor / Harry
Pardoe
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VSA
Capital (Financial Adviser and Joint Broker)
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+44 (0)20 3005 5000
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Andrew Monk / Andrew Raca
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Tavistock (Financial PR Advisor)
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+44 (0)20 7920 3150
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Simon Hudson / Gareth Tredway /
Saskia Sizen
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invinity@tavistock.co.uk
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Notes to Editors
Invinity Energy Systems plc (AIM:
IES) (AQSE: IES) (OTCQX: IESVF)
manufactures vanadium flow batteries for
large-scale, high-throughput energy storage requirements of
business, industry and electrical networks.
Invinity's factory-built flow
batteries run continually with no degradation for over 25 years,
making them suitable for the most demanding applications in
renewable energy production. Energy storage systems based on
Invinity's batteries are safe, reliable, and economical, and range
in size from less than 250 kilowatt-hours to tens of
megawatt-hours.
Invinity was created in April 2020
through the merger of two flow battery industry leaders: redT
energy plc and Avalon Battery Corporation. With over 70 MWh of
systems already deployed or contracted for delivery across over 79
sites in 15 countries, Invinity is active in all major global
energy storage markets and has operations in the UK, Canada, USA,
China and Australia. Invinity Energy Systems plc is listed in the
UK on AIM and AQSE and trades in the USA on OTCQX.
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