energy storage challenge-esa2011

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ESA Annual Meeting 2011Dr. Rahul Walawalkar

Steering Committee Member

Partners


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Energy Storage Challenge

Fundamental Ideas - 2011

Prize Fund $250,000

Lab Demonstration - 2012

Prize Fund TBA Final options either Thailand and Hawaii

Full Demonstration

Start 2013/2014

Prize Fund TBA

Fundamental Ideas ChallengePrize fund of US$250,000

Invited fresh ideas that can provide transportable energystorage.

Restricted to sizes with a range from mobile phone batteries tosystems that fit in multiple 60 foot containers.

Proposals must be notably different from existing systems. Finalists will have the honour of presenting their idea before

sponsors, investors, peers and a panel of independent judges. The winning proposal will be judged LIVE at the PitchLive London

in November 2011 .


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Ideas from around the world

Ideas from around the world (2) 83 Ideas submitted to the main competition (Expectation was

around 50 ideas)

In Addition:

20 Ideas being submitted fromChinese Academy of Science

15 Ideas being submitted fromgroups in Israel


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Types of Ideas and Innovators

Types of Storage Biological Chemical Electrical Electromechanical Thermal

Types of Organisations Universities Schools Private Consultants SMEs Large Corporations

Timetable 20111st January: Call for entrants (Done)14 th April: Initial application deadline (Done)1st June: First round judging (online) completed10 th June: Second round finalists selected for additional

information to be submitted1st July: Second round information deadline1st August: Second round judging (online) completed. Finalists

selected24 th October: Live Judging of finalists with winner announced at

PitchLive London1st December : Meeting with winner talk about commercialisation,mentoring and supported needed.


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PitchLive London 2011

To be held in London on 24 th October 2011 Part of PitchLive London will be a day on Energy Storage Presentations from a maximum of 8 finalists Finalists present their idea LIVEand with group face-to-face Q&A

sessions Each finalist will be given feedback on their application Winner announced at the end of the day and receives US$250,000

fund as prize. Open to the public , tickets can be purchased from 1 st June 2011

Attendees expected be VCs and stakeholders in innovation fromindustry and government

Lab Demonstration ChallengeThe Second Year 2011/12

Prize fund of US$1,000,000 - to be confirmed Systems that can plausibly be implemented within 2-5 years

Looking at grid connected community sized devices

The prize fund will be awarded to a proposal that meets certainpre-defined criteria, including power management and life cycledesign.

Finalists will present their prototypes at the Energy StorageChallenge Summit in September 2012.


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Full Demonstration ChallengeThe Third Year 2013/14

Prize fund of ~ US$5,000,000 - to be confirmed

In the final year of Transportable Energy Storage entrants mustsubmit a system that is ready for demonstration

The prize fund will be awarded to a proposal that meets certain pre-defined criteria.

Finalists will compete against each other and the results will bepresented at the Energy Storage Challenge Summit in September

2013-14 (Depending on the criteria and development time lines)

To get involved visit:

http://www.omnicompete.com/energy

For more information please email:[email protected]

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