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Hong Kong tycoon-backed start-up bets on new battery to challenge energy-storage giants

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Ren, D. (2026, September 26). Hong Kong tycoon-backed start-up bets on new battery to challenge energy-storage giants. South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/business/china-evs/article/3368843/hong-kong-tycoon-backed-start-bets-new-battery-challenge-energy-storage-giants?utm_source=rss_feed

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South China Morning Post · collected 2026-09-26 · by Daniel Ren

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EnerVenue, a start-up co-founded by Peter Lee’s family office and based in California, has opened a production facility in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, to manufacture nickel-hydrogen batteries. The company currently produces 250 megawatt-hours (MWh) annually and aims to increase its capacity to one gigawatt-hour (GWh) by 2027. EnerVenue’s CEO, Henning Rath, asserts that the company is highly competitive in the energy-storage market based on various key metrics.
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A Hong Kong-based start-up company called EnerVenue, co-founded by Peter Lee’s family office, has opened a new factory in Changzhou, located in eastern China's Jiangsu province. The California-based firm is now capable of producing 250 megawatt-hours (MWh) of nickel-hydrogen batteries annually and aims to increase its production capacity to one gigawatt-hour (GWh) by 2027. CEO Henning Rath asserts that EnerVenue's technology competes effectively with other energy-storage solutions across various metrics, positioning the company as a potential challenger to established players in the energy storage industry.

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Co-founded by Peter Lee’s family office, EnerVenue has opened a facility in mainland China to scale its nickel-hydrogen batteries The California-based company can now produce 250 megawatt-hours (MWh) of nickel-hydrogen batteries annually at its factory in Changzhou, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, and plans to raise capacity to one gigawatt-hour (GWh) in 2027.
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Hong Kong tycoon-backed start-up bets on new battery to challenge energy-storage giants · assertive framing

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Hong Kong tycoon-backed start-up bets on new battery to challenge energy-storage giants asserted
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Co-founded by Peter Lee’s family office, EnerVenue has opened a facility in mainland China to scale its nickel-hydrogen batteries The California-based company can now produce 250 megawatt-hours (MWh) of nickel-hydrogen batteries annually at its factory in Changzhou, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, and plans to raise capacity to one gigawatt-hour (GWh) in 2027. asserted
company → Co → 2027
“In this [energy-storage] segment, we believe we are very competitive across the board on key metrics,” CEO Henning Rath told the South China Morning Post in an interview on Friday. asserted
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