Energy Storage Challenge

Our current energy challenges relate to transportable energy storage. Transportable system can range in size from mobile phone batteries to systems that fit in 60 foot containers. They just have to be movable.

• Why concentrate on transportable energy storage?
  • Real world situations, not academic experiments
• Why a set of multiple related Challenges?
  • Full range of different technologies
  • Each challenge separate from the previous challenge
  • Shorten the current 8-15 year process of bringing research ideas into commercial product into a 3-5 year competition based model

Challenges recently closed:
Energy Storage Fundamental Ideas Challenge – Prize Fund US$250,000
Inviting fresh ideas that can provide new types of transportable energy storage. Size can range from mobile phone batteries to systems that fit in 60 foot containers. Proposals must be notably different from existing systems.

Future Planned Challenges:
Energy Storage Lab Demonstration Challenge - Prize fund of US$1,000,000 (tbc)
Systems that can plausibly be implemented within 2-5 years. The prize fund will be awarded to a proposal that meets certain predefined criteria, including power management and life cycle design. Finalists will present their prototypes at the Energy Storage Challenge Summit.

Energy Storage Full Demonstration Challenge - Prize fund of US$5,000,000 (tbc)
The prize fund will be a mix of government and private sector funding. In the final challenge relating to transportable energy storage, entrants must submit a system that is ready for demonstration. The prize fund will be awarded to a proposal that meets certain predefined criteria. Finalists will compete against each other and the results will be presented at the Energy Storage Challenge Summit.


We are always looking to add additional challenges, please contact the team if you have any ideas