Salient Energy Receives $1.5+ Million Grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC)
Salient will utilize the grant funding to open an office and engineering facility in Oakland, California, which will commence in Q2 2021.
- Salient will utilize the grant funding to open an office and engineering facility in Oakland, California, which will commence in Q2 2021.
- The grant funding will also allow Salient to hire a team of engineers to design and assemble zinc-ion residential energy storage systems that offer an alternative to lithium-ion.
- As a leader in energy storage, the State of California has outpaced the rest of the U.S. with nearly 300 utility-scale storage projects .
- Once deemed commercially viable, Salients zinc-ion energy storage solutions will accelerate the adoption and deployment of non-lithium-ion energy storage in California and will help strive to meet the States aggressive energy goals of replacing fossil fuel powered backup generators.