Finalist — 8inks has developed a manufacturing platform that unlocks mass production of NextGen battery designs and materials. They reduce manufacturing costs significantly and boost battery performance by leaving production constraints behind. This enables more freedom of design for battery architectures that are tailored for its application with material flexibility.

Finalist — Adena has developed a sodium-based battery technology for long-duration energy storage. They are bringing low-cost, safe, and domestic sodium batteries to the grid scale.

Finalist — COnovate, Inc. has a domestically sourced nanomaterial that can be used as an anode for batteries. This material, made from bio-sourced feedstock, mitigates current dependencies on high-risk geographies for graphite, while offering improved performance, safety and seamless adoption with current manufacturing infrastructure and battery designs.

Finalist — Edgecom Energy developed an AI Energy CoPilot that utilises artificial intelligence to deliver real-time insights and actionable recommendations to large energy consumers to take control of their energy costs and reduce emissions. This innovative technology helps to optimise energy usage, save money, and contribute to a greener, more sustainable future.

Finalist — Fusebox offers a fully automated flexibility management platform for C&I size demand response, BESS and renewable assets. This platform automates on-site, and balances market connected assets combinations management and trading for the energy companies. It is not a trading platform.

Finalist — HyperHeat's technology is an electric heating system designed to achieve temperatures up to 2000°C using solely renewable electricity. Their air heaters utilise oxide ceramic materials for resistive heating, capable of operating at extreme temperatures without significant degradation, a challenge that traditional metal and ceramic heaters face.

Finalist — phelas has developed Aurora, an energy storage system that uses air and gravel as storage materials. Aurora is specially designed for large-scale energy storage, offering a cost-effective and reliable solution for long duration energy storage.

Finalist — RedoxBlox has developed a thermochemical energy storage technology. Their high-temperature, high-energy density solution enables the replacement of natural gas/fossil fuel combustion with electrification and energy storage. End uses include industrial heat decarbonisation, and long-duration energy storage for electricity-to-electricity applications.

Finalist — Sight-E analytics develops optimal decision-making tools for energy generation and asset owners using state-of-the-art optimization and machine learning models. Our SaaS solution offers them the optimal strategy for trading and operations of their assets.

Finalist — Soteria has technology to make lithium-ion batteries inherently safe (90-99% less likely to catch fire) and is taking it to market with a broad-based licensing business model supported by an industry-wide consortium of members.