• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Eric Chaves

Terrament

Founder

​​​​​Eric Chaves is the founder and CEO of Terrament, a startup building long-duration energy storage using gravity batteries deployed deep underground. Eric is an entrepreneur and technologist with a background spanning architecture, industrial design, and software. He is a founder fellow at Newlab, and a member of the CEBIP accelerator at Stony Brook University. 

Sessions With Eric Chaves

Thursday, 21 March

  • 03:30pm - 04:00pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 08:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 09:00 pm

    Terrament | Why We Need Underground Gravity Storage

    Pumped hydro is our power grid’s dominant, cheapest form of energy storage, but water and mountains are constrained resources. This presentation is a review of the latest gravity storage research and a showcase of new designs promising to push “mgh” energy to new heights (a mile underground!) to unlock pumped hydro scales of power and duration.