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Powering the Future Having gained the interest of the wider industry by working hard to remove the risks of the early adoption of new technologies , the test pilot with Orocobre and the completion of Series A financing leaves EnergyX well place to achieve its goals .
“ We ’ ll start deploying some of our new capital this year ,” says Egan . “ We have five main initiatives . The first is to deploy our pilot plants into the field . We have three pilot plants , one of which will go to
Orocobre . Two of the others we ' re working on the agreements right now , and we have brine testing agreements with all of the tier one producers out there . These are big milestones for 2021 . The second initiative is consolidating our team . Right now , we ' re spread out and working remotely with people in DC , New York , Austin and the Bay Area , but we are building our own 25,000 square-foot innovation lab in Austin , Texas , which will become our home this summer . Next , we scale the team ; with this brandnew facility , we ' re looking to build from 15 to 50 people , mostly scientists and engineers . Fourth , we start scaling up our commercial manufacturing . And for us , that means producing our secret sauce , our lithium separation membranes .
“ We have partners that do the rest of the equipment that the membranes go in - the stacks , the pumps , the drivers , the valves and the casings ... However , we will commercially manufacture our own membranes ; that ' s a big initiative , building out that custom equipment . Fifth , and finally , is our intellectual property portfolio . We have 23 patents right now , and we ' ll look to grow our patent portfolio into the hundreds . This relates to two categories : DLE is about 90 % of our bandwidth right now , but we also have our solid-state battery initiative , around 10 % of our focus , and we ' ll file patents around both of those areas .”
With global warming escalating , there is a high demand for innovation in the energy materials sector . Founded in 2018 , when the US government placed lithium at the top of its List of Critical Minerals , EnergyX is primed to help meet global demand and contribute towards the development of the renewable energy capable of reducing our carbon footprint and lessening humanity ’ s environmental impact on the planet .
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