Since 2015, I have been dreaming of the day when Australia would take advantage of its abundant natural and mineral resources, and add the secret sauce of homegrown Intellectual Property, to create value-added energy harvesting, conversion, and storage products & services for sale, all around the world.That dream started coming to reality in August 2017, when I was privileged to co-found PowerPlus Energy with my then business partner Bradley Paton. The vision in 2017 was to produce LFP (Lithium Ferro Phosphate) battery packs and energy storage products for both the local Australian and overseas markets. This is no longer just a dream, because PowerPlus Energy has become a successful and well-known Australian LFP battery brand, supplying quality products to downstream partners all over Australia and beyond.After my departure from PowerPlus Energy, I’ve started working with various forward-thinking technology partners overseas and at home, to prepare ourselves for the global commoditisation of the BESS (battery energy storage systems) market.As the cost of Lithium ion cells continues to fall rapidly, and as new products based on LMFP, Sodium ion, solid state and other large format power storage cells begin to penetrate the BESS market, careful thought and planning need to be given to bigger picture, systems-level issues such as: product maintainability and system longevity, fire and electrical safety, backwards compatibility and interoperability, end-of-life planning and management, as well as multi-chemistry energy storage solutions.The world is now standing at the intersection of many competing battery technologies, so it is a critical time to start designing, manufacturing and deploying solutions that will last the next 10 to 20 years. We must leave our children and their children a wonderful legacy - not a massive mess to mop up.For those who have known me for a while, I try to live by my personal motto: “There has to be a better way…” -- Let’s find that better way today, together!