UK liquid air storage player Highview has finally landed a major deal to deliver a 50MW/500MWh long term storage project in Chile. Previous deals have been substantially smaller, and completing a successful first “bigger” deal could lead to building its “bankability” for many such more deals. In one step it seems to have gone beyond all lithium ion projects ion scale apart from a handful that are as yet incomplete. As more storage seems to be a requirement of countries like the USA and China, companies begin to look beyond lithium ion, but it all seems to take too long to both establish the technology with funders and build brand and momentum, so much so that by the time we…