deMITasse Energies is a young company based out of New Delhi and New Jersey that was brought into existence with the resolve to build solutions to tough challenges that humanity faces. Today, we are working to solve our generation’s greatest challenge – climate change. Renewables are slowly but steadily gaining grounds over fossil fuels. But "the last mile is always the toughest" – 50% more electricity is generated today from fossil fuels than 20 years ago! At deMITasse Energies, our goal is to make the last mile in the transition to renewables, easier and desirable. We build and deploy long duration energy storage systems that enable "true" adoption of renewables.

Started out of a spare bedroom by three wide-eyed engineers fresh out school, deMITasse Energies has now grown into a small team of engineers who are extremely passionate about sustainability and solving tough challenges. We are backed by the prestigious IIM Bangalore (NSRCEL) and had been pre-incubated at Tata Trust’s Social Alpha. We have also closed our seed round in 2022 with an American investor who has been an ardent believer in sustainability and continues to find our work “very exciting” and our love for engineering “contagious”. We believe product-market fit and lab-to-market duration are the two biggest factors that determine a new technology’s success or failure. For this, since 2018, we have been working with some of the world’s biggest companies across industries – from power to chemical, textile to cement, steel to shipbuilding – to swiftly develop our technology into a solution that is not just innovative and viable, but also a great fit for a market spanning as many industries as possible. We also take immense pride in being one of the few tough-tech companies, globally, to have women in STEM make up over 40% of our team – including our co-founder. To read more about our origin story, our team, and our values, please follow this link.

We are developing and commercializing our cutting edge thermo-chemical technology that enables our plants to efficiently capture and store energy, up to grid scales for several months with zero energy dissipation, at a price point that is 4-8 times cheaper than other alternatives including lithium ion and other electrochemical batteries. Thermo-chemical energy storage technology involves the use of chemical reactions to store and release thermal energy. Endothermic chemical reactions require energy to build high-energy product while exothermic reactions release energy, forming a lower-energy product. This makes it possible to develop energy storage systems that store electricity and heat in the bonds of chemical compounds to use them for future energy supply. After nuclear, thermo-chemical energy storage is the most effective and energy dense way to store energy. And fossil fuels are the best example of energy storage within bonds of chemicals, with negligible energy dissipation in thousands of years.

At the heart of a deMITasse’s plant is our thermo-chemical cycle, which is powered by an intricate interplay of our proprietary chemicals and catalysts. After years of intense research and testing of various permutations and combinations of potential catalysts and chemicals which could optimize our thermo-chemical cycle to outperform existing storage technologies, we have developed the first deployable version of our technology. We are now implementing all the learnings we have gained from successful fielding of several paid pilots across industries, to begin commercial deployment of our plants in the US and Indian markets by mid-2024. We have begun taking limited pre-orders from strategic global customers for TRL-6/7 pilot plants with an option to upgrade at-cost to fully commercial/TRL-9 version post Q4-2024. Interested customers may reach out to us on this email.

From the get-go we have believed that any technology with promise to solve the challenge of long duration energy storage will necessarily need to have a very short lab-to-market period. Technologies that needed to first develop underlying sciences were therefore not a viable option. With this guiding principle, deMITasse has built its technology on the foundation of technologies, processes, and, equipment that have been time tested and proven in the industry. With most of the underlying sciences in place, only engineering had to be handled.

deMITasse's primary offering is MW-scale grid-interacting energy storage plant that time-shifts off-peak electricity, integrates various thermo-electric energy sources, and, provides a mechanism for “just transition”. These plants would enable power grids of the future to operate with extremely high reliability in an incredibly volatile demand-supply environment. This newfound superpower to reliably handle extreme variability on both demand and supply side would then enable replacement of all fossil fueled power plants with zero emission ones, and it would also provide a real opportunity to electrify several industries and facets of human existence like transportation, cooking, and climate control. But while energy storage is the primary application of and key motivation for our technology, like most great technologies, it has several applications as well. From waste heat recovery to marine propulsion to clean hydrogen to spacecraft thrusters, there are several applications of our technology.