EnerVenue is a classic case of how fast energy markets can change in the current energy transition – just 3 years ago, the breakthrough that made this type of energy storage possible, did not exist. In two more years it expects 2 GWh to be installed. CEO Jorg Heinemann talks in reverential tones about Professor Yi Cui, of Stanford University, and how he took a 50 year old technology and gave it a modern day facelift. That technology was part of the initial NASA forays into space, when nickel hydrogen batteries, with a platinum catalyst, were the best way of powering applications on a space craft. Three years ago Cui suggested his first replacement for platinum as the catalyst, in…