Research & Development

Energy Vault is committed to continual technology innovation in the pursuit of solving the one of the largest global problems facing the planet today.

Innovation - Purpose Driven

Energy Vault is committed to continual technology innovation in the pursuit of solving the one of the largest global problems facing the planet today, how to store renewable energy in both an economical and sustainable way to end the world’s reliance on fossil fuels. Our shared commitment to a clean energy future drives every effort in technology research and development. To support the company's primary directive, Energy Vault has established foundational locations and partnerships in sustainable production, design innovation, advanced materials science development, and proprietary machine-vision software testing. 

Global Development

Technology Innovation Timeline
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SWITZERLAND

Ticino Biasca 2018

Early feasibility studied conducted on the mechanical performance, efficiency, and automated software orchestration of the original gravity storage design concept.

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UNITED STATES

California 2019

CalTech-led engineering studies including seismic shake table stability analysis, accelerated mobile masses long-duration testing, and reliability studies.

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MEXICO

Monterrey 2019

Energy Vault and CEMEX announced a technology partnership whereby CEMEX provides the composite material technology for Energy Vault’s gravity energy storage mobile masses.

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SWITZERLAND

Arbedo-Castione 2020

Energy Vault R&D Center - Commercial Demonstration Unit was connected to the Swiss national utility grid and was utilized for two years of testing and software commissioning. This site location will continue to focus research, development, and innovation of our gravity energy storage technologies as we begin commercial deployments of this technology this year.

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ITALY

Milano 2022

Energy Vault Gravity Energy Storage Materials Science testing.

R&D Center

Center of Excellence
Facility

Energy Vault R&D Center

Location

Arbedo-Castione, Switzerland

Technology

Gravity Energy Storage & Energy Management System Software

Established

2020

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Research & Development

Overview

The Energy Vault Research and Development Center was founded in 2019.  Energy Vault established Arbedo-Castione, Switzerland, as the premier research hub for research and development of the company's proprietary EVx™ Gravity Energy Storage System (GESS) technology and the supporting Energy Management System (EMS) solutions software. 

Onsite Activities

Media Galleries

Design Development

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Materials Science & Brick Design

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First Generation Design

Arbedo-Castione, Switzerland 2021

Enabling a renewable world.

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