{"id":21415,"date":"2023-11-17T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/news\/uncategorized\/hopes-gewinnt-hessischen-gruenderpreis\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:37:45","slug":"hopes-wins-hessischen-gruenderpreis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/news\/news-en\/hopes-wins-hessischen-gruenderpreis\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPES Triumphs at the Hessian Founders&#8217; Prize 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n    <section id=\"text-default-block-block_0628da432f855efd51cd446bad1b8a61\" class=\"container-fluid text-default text-default-block\">\n        <div class=\"inner-container\">\n            <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                    <div class=\"row\">\n                        <div class=\"col col-sm-10 offset-sm-1 offset-lg-2 col-lg-8\">\n\n                            \n                                \n                                \n                                \n                                    \n                                    <div class=\"row text-wrapper container-6a6844cf0e817\">\n\n                                        \n                                                                                                                                                                                                <div class=\"col intro\">\n                                                        <p>\ud83c\udfc6 Congratulations to the HOPES team for bringing home the Hessian Founders&#8217; Prize 2023 (#HGP23) to Darmstadt! HOPES&#8217; innovative technology enabling sustainable energy storage in wind turbines impressed the jury, securing the team the first place in the &#8220;University-based Startups&#8221; category.<\/p>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                                                            \n                                            \n                                            \n                                            \n                                            \n                                        \n                                            \n                                            \n                                            \n                                                                                                                                                                                                <div class=\"col text\">\n                                                        <p>The groundbreaking idea of using saltwater as an energy storage medium originated from Falah Alodaid, a private lecturer and research group leader in the field of energy systems and energy engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa). 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