New Energy Today Issue 106 - 2026 | Page 95

_________________________________________________________________________________________________ Antora
Energy

Industry doesn’ t buy technology; it buys energy – and typically these decisions center around cost, speed, and reliability. This concept guides Nehali Jain, VP of Strategy and Growth at Antora Energy( Antora), who aligns both the technical and financial divisions to drive effective decision-making.

Antora delivers affordable and reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid, using thermal batteries that charge with low-cost electricity, store it as heat in blocks of solid carbon, and deliver it 24 / 7 as heat or power.“ The units are factory built and avoid two of the constraints that slow most energy projects: they don’ t depend on supplyconstrained critical minerals or require multiyear construction timelines,” Nehali begins.
“ The company started in 2018 with a deceptively simple question: how do you make cheap energy, from anywhere, available around the clock? We looked at every option for delivering firm energy, and the piece that was missing was ultra-low-cost storage. Since then, we’ ve been building big and fast. We established our San Jose gigafactory in less than a year, for example, and it’ s now one of
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