This project will bring the recipients expertise in architecture and operation of storage-integrated microgrids for maximum community benefit alongside promising new vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB)…

The Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability awarded a $6.077 million cooperative agreement to Mugrid Analytics on April 16, 2026 under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis program (CFDA 81.122).

The award funds development and commercialization of vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) technology for commercial and industrial-scale energy storage, integrated with microgrid architecture and operation expertise. Deliverables include a best-in-class VRFB product; cost reductions through vertically integrated electrolyte production and automated stack manufacturing processes; and monetization models for long-duration energy storage leveraging stacked services including energy arbitrage, peak demand management, demand response, and wholesale energy trading. The models are designed to reduce rate tariff costs, improve long-term community resilience, and generate energy sellback revenue.

Mugrid Analytics is an SBA-certified women-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Littleton, Colorado, where performance takes place. The period of performance runs through April 15, 2030.

This project will bring the recipients expertise in architecture and operation of storage-integrated microgrids for maximum community benefit alongside promising new vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) products. This integration of capability will solidify a best-in-class, commercial and industrial (C & I) scale VRFB product; establish significant cost reductions by establishing new vertically integrated electrolyte production and stack automation manufacturing processes; and develop promising new monetization models for long duration energy storage (LDES) built around stacked services models that can include arbitrage and peak demand management to reduce rate tariff costs, improve long-term community resilience, and generate energy sellback revenue for applications such as demand response and wholesale energy trading.