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Outside shot of the new Grid Storage Launchpad building at PNNL with the building sign in the foreground.
One year ago, the Office of Electricity’s Grid Storage Launchpad was a new building full of sparkling new laboratories with new, unused equipment. Today, the 93,000-square-foot facility is bustling with researchers who are working to develop robust, affordable energy storage solutions to help bolster the nation’s electricity grid.
EnergyTech Univeristy Prize 2025 National Winners holding checks with DOE Chief Commercialization Officer and Office of Technology IOTC) Commercialization Director Anthony Pugliese and OTC Chief of Staff Justin Bis.
Winners of the EnergyTech University Prize (EnergyTech UP) 2025 were announced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) at the prize’s National Pitch Event on June 30 at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.