About EnerVenue

We build energy storage infrastructure that endures.

EnerVenue is an energy infrastructure company. This is the story of why we exist, who is building it, and what we are working toward.

EnerVenue storage containers deployed in a desert environment, representing the company's energy infrastructure mission

The Conviction

The energy industry has an endurance problem. We are solving it.

The grid produces energy when conditions allow and needs it when demand requires it. Those two moments increasingly do not align. Storage is the infrastructure layer that resolves that mismatch.

The battery systems most widely deployed today were not engineered for this role. They degrade. They require augmentation. They were built for consumer devices and repurposed for infrastructure.

EnerVenue was founded on the conviction that this could be done differently. A proven chemistry, developed for the most demanding environments ever built, brought to the grid. Storage systems that operate without major intervention for the full project life. Infrastructure that endures.

Born to Empower. Built to Endure.

EnerVenue energy storage units installed in a desert setting, showcasing real-world deployment at scale

The Moment

The energy transition is the largest infrastructure build in human history. EnerVenue was founded at the moment when the gap became impossible to ignore.

Renewable generation is expanding faster than the infrastructure to support it. AI data centers are commissioning at a pace the grid was not designed to absorb. Industrial electrification is restructuring demand at scale. Every one of these forces is accelerating simultaneously. And the storage technology most widely deployed to manage them was built for a different purpose entirely — consumer electronics, electric vehicles, portable devices. Not for the continuous, long-duration demands of energy infrastructure.

The gap was not a technology issue. The chemistry to solve it had existed for decades, proven in environments where failure was not an option. It was a deployment problem. Nobody had built the company to bring it to the grid at commercial scale.

The infrastructure the world needs. Built to endure.

The Founding

The solution already existed. We built the company to deploy it.

In the 1980s, NASA deployed nickel-hydrogen battery technology for missions where failure was not an option and replacement was nearly impossible. That chemistry powered the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station for decades.

Stanford University's Prof. Yi Cui — one of the world's preeminent material scientists and EnerVenue's Chairman — recognized that the same proven chemistry could be refined for grid-scale deployment at a fraction of its original cost. That research became EnerVenue.

Cinematic view of the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit, illustrating the NASA origins of EnerVenue's nickel-hydrogen technology

The People

Built by people who understand what the energy industry demands.

EnerVenue is led by a team with deep experience across energy infrastructure, advanced materials, and commercial deployment at scale.

Headshot of Henning Rath, CEO of EnerVenue

Henning Rath

Chief Executive Officer

Entrepreneur and technology executive with extensive experience in global markets. Started and scaled companies at the intersection of climate, mobility, and technology. Prior to EnerVenue, Rath was Managing Director and Chief Supply Chain Officer at greentech unicorn Enpal, where he was instrumental in building the company into Germany's leading residential renewable energy provider and one of Europe's top green energy platforms.

Headshot of Yi Cui, co-founder of EnerVenue

Prof. Yi Cui

Chairman · Co-Founder

One of the world's leading materials scientists, Dr. Cui is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Recognized for groundbreaking work on battery technology, nanomaterials, and energy storage. His material research became the scientific foundation for the creation and commercialization of EnerVenue.

Headshot of Majid Keshavarz, CTO of EnerVenue

Dr. Majid Keshavarz

Chief Technology Officer

More than 25 years of experience in energy storage technology development. Led the evaluation, commercialization, and design for manufacturability of EnerVenue cell technology. Created new performance benchmarks by reducing cost, improving efficiency and increasing lifespan over legacy designs. An authority on battery technology, Dr. Keshavarz has also developed sodium-ion, iron-chrome and vanadium flow technologies.

The Facts

The company in numbers.

2020

Company founded

2

Primary locations

Silicon Valley, USA and Changzhou, China

1

Battery technology

Built to endure

2026

High-volume manufacturing

Work With Us

If you are building energy infrastructure, we should talk.

Buyers are securing manufacturing reservations now. For project enquiries, our team is ready to model your specific use case.

Talk to an expert

Born to Empower. Built to Endure.

Speak with an Advisor