Ambri, Inc. is an American

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which aims to produce molten-salt batteries for energy storage in wind and solar power systems. In 2016 it had thirty-seven employees.

History

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and Dr. David Bradwell at the

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. It was renamed Ambri in 2012. In 2012 and 2014, it received $40 million in funding from

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, and GVB. In September 2015 the company deferred plans for commercial sales of its batteries, and laid off a quarter of its workforce. In 2016 it hoped to develop a calcium-antimony battery. In 2020, Ambri signed a contract with TerraScale to deliver a 250 MWh energy storage installation for a

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to be built in

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near Fernley. In 2021,

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announced that one of its subsidiaries along with

and others, would invest $144 million in Ambri. Reliance is also in talks with Ambri to set up manufacturing and distribution facility in India.

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