Gravity based Energy Storage Startup Energy Vault Reveals $100 Million Financing

Aug 26, 2021 03:59 PM ET
  • Gravity storage space uses a high possible method to save energy, and also the backing for Energy Vault Suggests investors buy in.
  • Gravitricity is an additional company that remains in the very same area

Energy Vault, the firm behind gravity-based, grid-scale energy storage space services with its exclusive innovation, today introduced $100 million in Series C financing. We had covered the firm's series B funding back in 2019. The most recent financial investment round is being led by existing investor Prime Movers Lab, with extra engagement from various other existing investors consisting of SoftBank Vision Fund, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Helena, and Idealab X. In addition, the Series C financing is supported by new investors, including Pickering Energy Partners via its Energy Equity Opportunity Fund, SailingStone Global Energy Shift, A.T. Gekko, Crexa Capital Advisors LLC, Green Storage Solutions Venture I LLC, and Gordon Crawford

Goldman Sachs and also Stifel worked as economic consultants on the deal.

The resources elevated will be used to sustain implementation of the Company's development prepares as it increases multi-continent implementations of its cutting-edge EVx ™ platform, consisting of satisfying a strong pipe of customer contracts throughout markets in the UNITED STATE, Middle East, Europe, as well as Australia. Implementations will certainly start in the UNITED STATE throughout the 4th quarter of 2021, with a broader worldwide increase expected throughout 2022.

Energy Vault's system is made to be cost-effective, dependable, totally secure to operate, as well as environmentally sustainable, and also is released with an extremely local supply chain that makes best use of neighborhood job creation and economic impact, all underpinned by cutting edge product scientific research and also proprietary software technologies. The assimilation of these advanced innovations with traditional physics of gravity allows the Company to address a large, unmet requirement for energy storage space options that manage the periodic supply of renewable energy at utility range to deliver dispatchable energy on demand, accelerating wider market fostering of renewable resource resources.

Following the effective industrial range deployment of its energy storage space system in 2020, Energy Vault released its brand-new EVx platform in April 2021, simultaneous with the announcement that Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures has actually purchased Energy Vault. EVx introduces efficiency enhancements designed to have 80-85% round-trip efficiency, a more than 35-year technological life, and a flexible, modular layout that is 45% lower in height and that can financially offer both greater power/shorter period applications with secondary services from 2 to 4 hours, while effortlessly scaling to offer longer duration requirements from 5 to 24 hr or more. With no destruction of the storage space capability over time, the potential energy of the system can be kept with the composite blocks in the increased placement for limitless time periods.

To make the most of the sustainability components of the storage space system, Energy Vault executed a circular financial approach to the supply chain that likewise makes best use of on website material production, hence reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the transportation industry. Further material scientific research advancement was created in the manufacturing of the composite blocks that allows the advantageous re-use of waste materials or else predestined for garbage dumps, such as coal ash, waste tailings from mining operations and also de-commissioned wind generator blades that would otherwise be burned or buried underground, incorporating these waste materials into the composite blocks to power its gravity-based storage system.

" We are happy to welcome Prime Movers Lab and various other new and also existing calculated companions that jointly bring an amazing track record of buying advancement modern technologies that are accelerating the tidy energy transition on an international basis," said Robert Piconi, CEO and founder, Energy Vault. "The globe is at a critical inflection point in the change in the direction of wider adoption of renewable resource resources. Energy Vault is accelerating this makeover as we currently relocate to international implementations and also market adoption of the modern technology to aid energy carriers as well as commercial clients more cost-effectively satisfy their sustainability and decarbonization goals."

" To genuinely harness the power of renewable energy, the world needs to establish reliable, flexible storage remedies for when the sunlight does not beam or the wind does not blow," stated Zia Huque, general partner at Prime Movers Laboratory. "Energy Vault has cracked the code with a transformative solution that is developed to satisfy clean energy demand 24/7 with a more reliable, sturdy and also ecologically lasting approach than other options. Energy Vault is a gamechanger in our eco-friendly energy shift as well as Prime Movers Laboratory is delighted to support the company in scaling the implementation of its technology."


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