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2023-11-20 07:30:00
Contest Aims to Advance Innovative New Microbattery Designs and Accelerate Their
Commercialization and Integration into Existing Clean Energy Manufacturing
Technologies
SAN JOSE, Calif., November 20, 2023 -- Ensurge Micropower (OSE: ENSU, and OTCQB:
ENMPY) ("Ensurge" or the "Company"), today announces it has been named one of
the winners in the first phase of the U.S. DOE Microbattery Design Prize
competition. The company now enters the second of the DOE's two-phase program,
which features a total prize pool of $1.1 million in awards including federal
funding.
"We are extremely pleased that the DOE has chosen our microbattery as one of the
industry's leading design architectures," said Arvind Kamath, Executive Vice
President of Technology at Ensurge. "This recognition is a testament to our
innovation as well as our engineering team's hard work in close collaboration
with lead customers through successive stages of technology performance testing
and evaluation. It also reinforces the strong market and strategic need for this
class of microbattery."
The DOE competition is focused on improving battery performance, safety, and
recyclability to support a new era of small, wireless electronic devices used in
smart homes, factories, farms, and cities. It also aims to close existing gaps
in the microelectronics and energy storage supply chains, which will strengthen
both U.S. manufacturing competitiveness abroad and domestic end-to-end supply
chains for these technologies.
"This award will significantly elevate the visibility of EnsurgeŽs battery
technology among both private and public financing sources as the company
transitions from development to customer deliveries and production scale-up,"
said Lars Eikeland, CEO at Ensurge. "The DOE award is yet another important
validation of our technology following last month's recognition by the American
Chemical Society, which published a perspective paper
(https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01839) describing our
solid-state lithium thin-film battery in its prestigious ACS Energy Letters
journal. These independent acknowledgements underscore our technology's value
and how crucial its benefits will be for overcoming the limitations of current
battery technology so that our customers can launch new waves of innovative
products."
The eight projects in the first phase of the DOE competition were selected based
on a review of technical designs and schematics for microbatteries that serve a
specific application and deliver performance beyond what is commercially
available. Each of the winners was awarded a $75,000 cash prize plus testing
services with DOE National Laboratories, and can advance to Phase Two where
their prototypes will be evaluated for performance, safety and manufacturing
readiness. Learn more about the selected projects here.
(https://www.energy.gov/eere/ammto/microbattery-design-prize-phase-i-
selections) A winner and two runners up will be selected.
"Microbatteries are becoming more and more crucial for clean energy
manufacturing scale-up and smart technology innovation," said Jeff Marootian,
the DOE's Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy. "As our nation rapidly transitions to a clean energy future,
the ability for us to domestically produce a wide range of microbatteries is
going to be hugely important for achieving the Biden-Harris Administration's
clean energy goals of achieving 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net-zero
carbon emissions by 2050."
The Microbattery Design Prize is led by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy's Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office
(https://www.energy.gov/eere/ammto/advanced-materials-manufacturing-
technologies-office) and managed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(https://www.nrel.gov/). Visit the Microbattery Design Prize page
(https://bit.ly/MicrobatteryDesignPrizeAMC) on the American-Made Challenges
(https://americanmadechallenges.org/) website for more information Phase Two
contest results will be announced in July 2025.
About Ensurge Micropower
Ensurge is Energizing Innovation(TM) with the first ultrathin, flexible,
reliable,
and fundamentally safe solid-state lithium microbattery for the 1 to 100
milliampere-hour (mAh) class of wearable devices, connected sensors, and beyond.
The innovative Ensurge Microbattery enables energy-dense rechargeable products
that are ideal for form-factor-constrained applications including hearables
(hearing aids and wireless headphones), digital and health wearables, sports and
fitness devices, and IoT sensor solutions that use energy harvesting to power
everyday things. The company's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, located
in the heart of Silicon Valley, combines patented process technology and
materials innovation with the scale of roll-to-roll production methods to bring
the advantages of Ensurge technology to established and expanding markets.
Contact
Investor Relations
E-mail: IR@ensurge.com (mailto:IR@ensurge.com)
Lars Eikeland, CEO at Ensurge
E-mail: lars.eikeland@ensurge.com (mailto:lars.eikeland@ensurge.com)
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