Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards

Energy Exploration Technologies Inc. (EnergyX) has been recognized in Fast Company’s energy category for its 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards alongside several major industry innovators. One of the world’s leading progressive business media brands, Fast Company is focused on highlighting the latest developments in innovation and technology. The company’s World Changing Ideas Awards showcase the companies, organizations, and nonprofits making the biggest impact across 50 categories, including architecture, energy, finance, transportation, and more.

The energy category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors renewable energy projects, new battery technology, and any other creative solution for clean power and better electricity distribution. EnergyX’s lithium-ion transport and separation technology (LiTAS™) which continues to establish new standards in Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) efficiency and sustainability earned an Honorable Mention as part of an exclusive shortlist of 9 projects considered by Fast Company for the award.

EnergyX CEO Teague Egan commented on the company’s recognition, saying “EnergyX has been at the forefront of DLE research and development for some time now. We have always worked towards creating more sustainable and efficient solutions for the lithium sector from brine to battery. EnergyX is disrupting a $90 billion dollar industry, and having Fast Company not only recognize it, but name us in their World Changing Ideas Awards is a testament to all the work we are doing.”

Founded in 2018, EnergyX is a startup focused on providing efficient, sustainable solutions to challenges facing global lithium supply chains. From the raw battery materials extraction process to refining, and the manufacturing of next generation batteries, EnergyX is innovating from lithium brine to battery. The company has filed nearly 100  patents to date, and is developing its proprietary LiTAS™ suite of DLE technologies to respond to the challenges faced by lithium producers, including energy efficiency, water conservation, extraction time, and sustainability.