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Largo Inc T.LGO

Alternate Symbol(s):  LGO

Largo Inc. is a Canada-based producer and supplier of vanadium products. The Company’s segments include sales & trading, mine properties, corporate, exploration and evaluation properties (E&E properties), Largo Clean Energy and Largo Physical Vanadium. Its VPURE and VPURE+ products, which are sourced from one of the vanadium deposits at the Company's Maracas Menchen Mine in Brazil. The Company is also focused on the advancement of renewable energy storage solutions through Largo Clean Energy and its vanadium redox flow battery technology (VRFB). The Company is also engaged in the process of implementing a titanium dioxide pigment plant using feedstock sourced from its existing operations, in addition to advancing its United States-based clean energy division with its VCHARGE vanadium batteries. VPURE+ Flakes are used in the production of master alloys, where it provides high strength-to-weight ratios for the titanium alloy and aerospace industries.


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Post by kha341on Apr 25, 2024 11:33am
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The Energy Pillar: Overpromise and Underdeliver

The Energy Pillar: Overpromise and Underdeliver



Item

Description

Promise

Delivery

Note

1

07/30/2021, first sale of five-hour 6.1 MWh VRFB system to Enel for a project in Spain

To be commissioned by the end of 2022 according to Stephen Prince. Then the goal post was moved up to the end of Q2-23.

First hot commission March 2024

More than 1 year delay 

2

Expectation for 2022

Deployment of 40 MWH

Nil, nada, zero

Complete failure to deliver

3

Qualifications & Experience

Advanced team with decades of leadership & technological experience in Energy Storage

Where is the highly experienced tech team now? 

Shazad Butt, Michael Perry, Jef Moderno, Derek Weber, Greg Morehead? 

Ian Robertson (joined July 2021) left  after a year. CEO Stephen Prince (hired Jan 2022) left quietly after a brief stay. He was not even present at the Q2-22 CC.

The key tech experts are also gone. Francesco D’Alesso, a subordinate of Vollant in Sales, was promoted to President of the LCE division in July 2023

4

Expectation for 2025

1.4 GWh

Not a single sale contract on the horizon as at April 25 2024

Considering the long process (~2yrs) it is unlikely to see a 1.4 Gwh deployment in 2025 

5

In-house stack manufacturing facility and product development center

1.4GWH nameplate capacity facility and LCE head office in Wilmington, US

Done! However the facility is  idle since completing  a 6.1 MWh system for Enel. The only project to-date

An expensive white elephant. A capacity of 1.4 GWh = 1,400 MWh used to build only 6.1 MWh to-date

6

Value opportunity expectation

1. Upfront revenue

2. NPV of lease payments

3. NPV of residual V value

Nothing to-date.

No idea about the financial data  of LCE’s first sale. 

When will Largo report the  revenue/margins/profit/loss related to its first VRFB sale? 

7

Negotiation with Ansaldo Green Tech of Italy

JV for the commercial deployment of VRFB projects in 

Europe, North African, and Middle East 

No agreement

Announced with fanfare on Aug 4 2022. A total failure after 8-9 months of negotiation.

8

Negotiation with Stryten Energy of USA

JV to combine LCE with Stryten’s VFB business to establish integrated supply chain for V and electrolyte manufacturing for the VFB sector in North America

In progress since the signing of a non-binding LoI on Mar 18 2024

An agreement would be a very positive catalyst.



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