News Summary

• Offgrid Energy Labs has raised $15 million in Series A funding to scale up its operations.
• The 7-year-old startup has developed a zinc-bromine-based battery system as an alternative to lithium-ion technology.
• Called ZincGel, it delivers 80-90% of the energy efficiency of conventional lithium batteries, but at a significantly lower levelized cost of storage.
• It plans to build a 10-megawatt-hour demonstration facility in the U.K., expected to be ready by the first quarter of 2026.