Details of the financing were not disclosed. The other new investor is Cadent Energy Partners , who were joined by prior ones Polaris Ventures and Rockport Capital.

An additional $5.4m in earlier financing for SustainX came from the Small Business Innovation Research program of the National Science Foundation and from the Energy Storage Program of the US Department of Energy .

SustainX is working with AES Energy Storage to demonstrate a full-size system in the field, capable of storing enough energy to power 1,000 typical US homes.

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