Brian Hutchinson

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Gurmesh Sidhu, Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan and Gabriel Soares sit outside Moment Energy’s newest facility in Surrey, B.C. on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. The four co-founded the company in 2019 in a home garage, aiming to repurpose batteries into clean energy. Former engineering students at Simon Fraser University, the four co-founders first venture together was a meditation company. The new Surrey-based facility is expected to open by the end of June and claims to be the world’s largest in battery repurposing.

Can four SFU grads remake the electricity market with old EV batteries?

Moment Energy bundles discarded batteries into packs that can store power for when it's most needed

By Brian HutchinsonJune 30, 2026

Gurmesh Sidhu, Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan and Gabriel Soares sit outside Moment Energy’s newest facility in Surrey, B.C. on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. The four co-founded the company in 2019 in a home garage, aiming to repurpose batteries into clean energy. Former engineering students at Simon Fraser University, the four co-founders first venture together was a meditation company. The new Surrey-based facility is expected to open by the end of June and claims to be the world’s largest in battery repurposing.

Can four SFU grads remake the electricity market with old EV batteries?

Moment Energy bundles discarded batteries into packs that can store power for when it's most needed

By Brian HutchinsonJune 30, 2026

Gurmesh Sidhu, Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan and Gabriel Soares sit outside Moment Energy’s newest facility in Surrey, B.C. on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. The four co-founded the company in 2019 in a home garage, aiming to repurpose batteries into clean energy. Former engineering students at Simon Fraser University, the four co-founders first venture together was a meditation company. The new Surrey-based facility is expected to open by the end of June and claims to be the world’s largest in battery repurposing.

Can four SFU grads remake the electricity market with old EV batteries?

Moment Energy bundles discarded batteries into packs that can store power for when it's most needed

By Brian HutchinsonJune 30, 2026