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Energy Storage Innovations Prize Round 2 re-opening for submissions. This prize is a call for new, innovative, and promising energy storage solutions to address niche markets and to grow a community of energy storage innovators. The Energy Storage Innovations Prize offers a total prize pool of $300,000 in cash prizes.
OE's Grid Storage Launchpad. Photo courtesy 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.