What EnerVenue does

EnerVenue is a privately-held energy storage infrastructure company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Fremont, California, with 251-500 employees. The company designs and manufactures metal-hydrogen battery systems, building on nickel-hydrogen battery chemistry originally developed by NASA for space missions (Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station) and adapted from research by Stanford Prof. Yi Cui. EnerVenue's product portfolio centers on the Aqueous Metal Cell (AMC) — a sealed large-format cell — combined into the modular Energy Rack (150 kWh stackable DC block) and the containerized Energy Prism (900 kWh fully integrated DC block). These products target utility, data center, commercial & industrial, and remote-site applications with a 30,000+ cycle design life, 30-year operational life, UL 9540A-certified zero thermal runaway safety, and a -20°C to +60°C operating range without active thermal management. EnerVenue operates an enterprise field-sales model with multi-decade infrastructure-grade project economics, supported by a high-volume manufacturing line under construction in Changzhou, China (250 MWh near-term, scaling to 1 GWh by 2027), exclusive distribution partnership with Towngas for mainland China and Hong Kong, and a planned regional headquarters in Hong Kong.

Name

EnerVenue

Legal name

EnerVenue, Inc.

Website

https://enervenue.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

EnerVenue manufactures metal-hydrogen battery systems for grid-scale renewable energy storage, leveraging NASA-derived nickel-hydrogen chemistry for utility, data center, and C&I applications with 30-year design life.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Grid-Scale Energy Storage

NAICS

Battery Manufacturing (33591), Electrical Equipment Manufacturing (3353), Electrical Equipment Manufacturing (33531)

SIC

Electrical Industrial Apparatus (3620), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Electronic Coils, Transformers & Other Inductors (3677)

akta.pro primary industry

Battery Modules & Packs (Industrial/Commercial pack assembly) (IMAGAHAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Energy Storage Software & Controls (EMS, monitoring, optimization, cybersecurity) (IMAGAHAJ)

Keywords

• Grid-scale energy storage
• Nickel-hydrogen batteries
• Long-duration storage
• Stationary battery systems
• Metal-hydrogen battery cells

Headquarters

HQ city

Fremont

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hardware sales — Energy Rack™ and Energy Prism™ DC blocks: Sale of pre-integrated battery DC blocks (150 kWh Energy Rack and 900 kWh Energy Prism) shipped with Aqueous Metal Cells, BMS, and connections. Sold per unit, configured for project capacity; supported by datasheets, project consultation, and a 3-step enterprise sales motion (discovery → solution design → offer). Expected to be the primary revenue stream as EnerVenue scales manufacturing from 250 MWh toward 1 GWh by 2027.
2. Integrated AC solution / project deployment services: Energy Venue™ configurable AC building concept plus professional services for design, deployment, and integration of grid-scale energy storage projects. Supports developer/EPC integrator business model with optional turnkey delivery.
3. Distribution via exclusive regional partners: Towngas acts as exclusive distribution partner for mainland China and Hong Kong, extending EnerVenue's commercial reach through partner-led sales, pilot deployment, and forthcoming commercial demonstration systems. Channel revenue share implied.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

EnerVenue designs and manufactures metal-hydrogen (nickel-hydrogen) batteries for stationary, grid-scale and behind-the-meter energy storage. Its core product is the Aqueous Metal Cell (AMC), packaged into modular Energy Rack (150 kWh) and Energy Prism (900 kWh) building blocks and delivered as turnkey Energy Venue AC solutions for utilities, data centers, commercial and industrial sites, microgrids and remote operations.

Product overview

EnerVenue offers a single, integrated product architecture built around its proprietary Aqueous Metal Cell (AMC) technology — a sealed, large-format nickel-hydrogen cell derived from NASA-proven space battery chemistry. Rather than a platform-plus-modules structure, the offering is a unified cell-to-system stack: every AMC is the same chemistry and the same 30,000-cycle / 30-year design life, and those cells are combined into the 150 kWh Energy Rack™ (the configurable, stackable DC block) and then into the 900 kWh Energy Prism™ (the containerized, site-ready DC block), with Energy Venue™ serving as the turnkey AC building concept that integrates racks, inverters, and power conversion systems at grid scale. All products share the same AMC foundation, the same Modbus TCP/IP BMS communications, and the same zero-thermal-runaway safety profile, and they are marketed under the legacy Energy Storage Vessels (ESVs) brand as a single commercial family.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Energy Storage Vessels (ESVs): Legacy product branding for EnerVenue's metal-hydrogen battery systems with ultra-long design-life of 30,000 cycles and intrinsic safety without thermal runaway risk.
• Aqueous Metal Cell (AMC)
• Energy Rack
• Energy Prism
• Energy Venue

Products and services

• Aqueous Metal Cell (AMC) Proprietary nickel-hydrogen battery cell built on non-flammable, cobalt- and lithium-free aqueous chemistry originally developed for NASA aerospace applications. Serves as the building block for EnerVenue's Energy Rack and Energy Prism products and is targeted at utility, data center, commercial and industrial, and remote-site stationary storage customers.
• Energy Rack Modular 150 kWh battery system built from Aqueous Metal Cells for utility, commercial and industrial, data center and microgrid customers. Designed for projects from under 1 MWh to multi-MWh scale and available globally.
• Energy Prism Containerized 900 kWh battery energy storage system built from Aqueous Metal Cells, targeting utility-scale projects up to and beyond 200 MWh and large behind-the-meter data center deployments.
• Energy Venue Turnkey AC energy storage solution that integrates Aqueous Metal Cell-based storage hardware with inverters, controls and balance-of-plant, offered to utilities, data centers, and commercial and industrial customers for simplified procurement and deployment.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30,000+ cycles vs. 6,000–8,000 for typical lithium-ion (3–5× cycle life advantage)
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, minor and core.

• The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas)flagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 14 May 2026Exclusive distribution partner for EnerVenue in mainland China and Hong Kong; operates the first pilot deployment of EnerVenue's fourth-generation Aqueous Metal Cell technology in Jintan, Changzhou, integrating on-site renewable generation with electric bus charging stations. Hong Kong's first public utility (founded 1862) and one of the largest energy suppliers in Greater China.
• Yi Cui (Prof. Yi Cui, Stanford University)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 March 2026Stanford Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-founder and Chairman of EnerVenue; his material research became the scientific foundation for the creation and commercialization of the company. Co-founder relationship anchored through the Full Vision Capital partnership.
• Ara Ake — Future Energy Development (New Zealand Government)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 4 March 2023Independent New Zealand government agency that conducted an analysis of 10+ stationary battery chemistries; EnerVenue's nickel-hydrogen was identified as having the highest cycle life, 13× lower environmental impact per kWh, and among the highest lifetime energy output. The report is referenced across EnerVenue's marketing and used as third-party validation.
• NASA (technology origin)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Nickel-hydrogen battery chemistry originated with NASA programs in the 1980s; EnerVenue's Aqueous Metal Cell is the commercial refinement of the same chemistry that powered the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station for decades. NASA heritage is a foundational element of the company's technology and brand narrative.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Highview Power: Highview Power develops liquid air energy storage (LAES) systems for grid-scale long-duration applications, competing in the same non-lithium, multi-decade-asset infrastructure space as EnerVenue. Both companies pitch long-duration storage as utility-grade infrastructure rather than commodity battery procurement.
• Invinity Energy Systems: Invinity produces vanadium-flow batteries for long-duration grid and C&I storage, with similar non-flammable chemistry positioning and cycle-life durability as EnerVenue's AMC technology. Both companies target utility-scale, microgrid, and commercial customers needing multi-decade storage economics.
• Form Energy: Form Energy is the most direct competitor to EnerVenue in long-duration stationary storage, commercializing iron-air batteries designed for 100+ hour discharge at grid scale. Both companies target the same utility, IPP, and data center buyers seeking non-lithium, multi-decade asset-life storage alternatives to lithium-ion ESS.
• ESS Inc. ESS Inc. builds iron-flow batteries for long-duration utility-scale storage with comparable cycle-life and non-flammable chemistry positioning to EnerVenue's metal-hydrogen cells. Both are publicly-traded/marketed long-duration pure-plays targeting utility procurement and C&I customers with multi-decade project economics.
• Energy Vault: Energy Vault offers gravity- and kinetic-based long-duration storage solutions as an alternative non-lithium approach for utility-scale and C&I deployments. Both companies compete for the same long-duration RFPs from utilities, data centers, and developers seeking 8-100+ hour duration assets without lithium-ion degradation or thermal-runaway risk.

Broad incumbents

• Saft (TotalEnergies): Saft is a long-established industrial battery manufacturer (now part of TotalEnergies) with a portfolio spanning lithium-ion, nickel-based, and specialty chemistries for grid and C&I storage. It overlaps with EnerVenue in nickel-based chemistry heritage and utility customer base, but as a broader diversified incumbent rather than a focused long-duration pure-play.
• CATL: CATL is the world's largest lithium-ion battery manufacturer with expanding grid-scale storage product lines including the Tener system. CATL competes with EnerVenue across virtually every utility, data center, and C&I storage RFP, while also representing the dominant Chinese battery supply chain that EnerVenue is explicitly positioning against on supply-chain resilience grounds.
• Fluence Energy: Fluence is a leading global energy storage integrator and lithium-ion system provider serving the same utility, IPP, and C&I buyers as EnerVenue. While EnerVenue supplies battery building blocks to EPCs and integrators like Fluence's downstream competitors, Fluence represents the incumbent delivery channel whose project pipeline EnerVenue must compete against or partner into.
• BYD Energy Storage: BYD is the world's largest battery manufacturer with significant grid-scale LFP storage deployments, operating directly inside the same Chinese manufacturing and distribution ecosystem where EnerVenue's Changzhou plant and Towngas partnership are anchored. BYD represents both a peer in the same grid storage market and a competitor for Chinese manufacturing capacity and channel relationships.
• Tesla Energy (Megapack): Tesla's Megapack product line is the dominant deployed utility-scale lithium-ion storage system globally and competes head-to-head with EnerVenue for hyperscale, data center, and utility storage RFPs. While Tesla is far broader and lithium-ion-based, it defines the cost benchmark EnerVenue must beat on LCOS for any meaningful market share.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance10 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors6 records

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M&A

Investments

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