We’re proud to share that Posh Energy has been selected as a winner of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Re-X Before Recycling Prize, a national competition recognizing innovators advancing the reuse, repair, refurbishment, and remanufacturing of materials before they enter the recycling stream.
What the prize recognizes
The Re-X Before Recycling Prize is run by the DOE’s Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) to accelerate domestic supply-chain resilience for critical materials — especially the lithium-ion batteries that power EVs, grid storage, and industrial systems. Winning teams demonstrate concrete, scalable pathways to extend the useful life of materials and components before they are broken down for recycling.
Why this matters for our customers
A lithium-ion battery pack pulled from one application often still has 70–80% of its original capacity remaining. Recycling that pack immediately discards usable energy storage value and embedded carbon. Reusing it — in a second-life stationary application like Posh’s commercial and industrial battery systems — captures that value, lowers the total cost of energy storage for our customers, and meaningfully reduces the environmental footprint of every kilowatt-hour delivered.
Our cabinet-format energy storage systems are designed from the ground up to accept and qualify second-life cells alongside new cells, with the battery management system, fire protection, and thermal architecture engineered to maintain safety and performance across mixed-vintage fleets.
What’s next
The prize win sharpens our roadmap on three fronts:
- Scaling our second-life qualification pipeline — building the testing and grading infrastructure that lets us source, characterize, and deploy used cells at commercial volume.
- Partnerships with EV OEMs and fleet operators — turning end-of-first-life packs into a steady, traceable supply for grid and industrial deployments.
- Customer cost curves — passing the unit-economics benefit of second-life cells through to the commercial and industrial customers we serve, especially those facing rising demand charges or AI/data-center power constraints.
We’re grateful to the DOE and AMMTO for the recognition and the validation it brings to the work our team is doing. More to come.
— Wesley Zheng, CEO, Posh Energy