Gigaom has identified 12 battery technology and energy storage service startups that have completed sizable demonstration projects or started to deploy their energy storage systems more widely:
- Aquion Energy: This Pennsylvania-based startup has secured a deal to install a 1 MWh battery that will store electricity from a 176 kW solar energy system off Hawaii’s Kona Coast.
- Stem: The California company will use some of the $27 million series B funding it recently raised to develop, license or buy software technology to boost its energy management service.
- EnerVault: Last year, the company completed a 1 MWh flow battery system at an almond farm in California’s Central Valley.
- Sunverge Energy: The battery system designer and installer teamed up with SunPower last year. The two companies are co-marketing their solar-and-battery combination for a commercial rollout this year.
- Ice Energy: The company recently won a deal to supply Southern California Edison with 25.6 MW of service from Ice Energy systems across different locations.
- Advanced Microgrid Solutions: This project developer was selected by Southern California Edison to provide 50 MW of services.
- Coda Energy: The lithium-ion battery systems designer and electronics and software developer is working on a 510 kW demonstration project at its headquarters, which could deliver 1.05 MWh of energy.
- Imergy Power Systems: The flow battery developer announced a 100 kW demonstration project that will deliver 400 kWh of energy at a microgrid project at a US Navy site in Port Hueneme, California.
- Growing Energy Labs: This startup has developed an operating system to make battery systems work well with solar panels or heating and cooling systems.
- Green Charge Networks: As of a year ago, Green Charge had lined up $10 million for financing projects that use its software to manage its lithium-ion battery systems.
- Ambri: The liquid metal battery developer raised a $35 million series C round last year to bring its technology to market. The company plans to install prototype systems this year.
- Solar Grid Storage: This project developer sells and installs a bundle of battery systems with solar panels and electric car charging equipment. The company’s projects are mostly on the East Coast.
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