Sydney Lienemann, bottom right, founder of UpCycle Power, celebrates her win at the Arrowhead Innovation Fund’s 2021 Pitch Competition. (Courtesy photo)
SANTA FE, N.M. Old electric vehicle batteries could soon provide backup storage power for renewable generation systems through a local startup, UpCycle Power, which plans to repurpose used car batteries for clean-energy markets.
The company won a $5,000 first-place prize last March at Arrowhead Innovation Fund’s 2021 pitch competition at New Mexico State University after UpCycle founder Sydney Lienemann received in-depth mentoring and assistance from NMSU to turn her innovative idea into a marketable product.
The Foster Innovation Exchange Prototyping Lab at New Mexico State University has supported the development of a complex prototype for Evus, a startup creating a technology intended to mitigate scaling and fouling formation in all water filtration plant and heat transfer systems. (Courtesy photo)