When EEnotech was founded as a Startup foundry in 2017, the founders had only one aim in mind—spinning out many new exciting technology Startups in the space of energy and environment to support the sustainability of the world. Since then, the company has licensed multiple innovative technologies developed in Professor Yi Cui’s—the co-founder of EEnotech—lab at Stanford University. They have provided financial and infrastructure resources, built up the team to develop these innovations into scalable commercial prototypes. “We are spinning out four Startups during phase 1 in four exciting areas: Energy storage, water filtration, thermal textile, and building materials. In phase 2, we will license many game-changing technologies broadly from Stanford University and other institutions in the area of energy and environment,” says Meng Sui, the CEO, and co-founder of EEnotech.

As the first spinout of EEnotech, EnerVenue makes an extensive effort to meet the high demands for stationary energy storage. “Our energy storage product is cost-effective with long cycle and calendar life as well as eco-friendly and safe for the environment,” says Meng. On top of these characteristics, EnerVenue’s product has a fast-charging capability within six minutes and can also operate in wide ranges of temperature from -40°C up to +60°C. “We truly believe that our storage product can be infused with solar energy storage, wind farms, home storage, commercial building, as well as a variety of other storage applications,” mentions Meng.

At its core, EnerVenue's product is based on nickel-hydrogen (Ni-H2) gas batteries. In this battery chemistry, the cathode is NiOOH and Ni(OH)2 during charge and discharge, respectively. This Ni cathode chemistry, which could run up to 100,000 cycles, is probably one of the longest lifetime cathode chemistries ever invented throughout human history. On the other side, the anode chemistry is H2 gas transforming into water reversibly using a catalyst.

This hydrogen anode chemistry might be one of the longest life anode chemistries ever invented. “At EnerVenue, we combine the longest life cathode and the longest life anode to produce nickel-hydrogen gas batteries.