Eugene Beh is the co-founder and CEO of Quino Energy, a clean technology company advancing long-duration energy storage. His work tackles one of the biggest barriers in energy transition: making long-duration energy storage affordable at scale. A chemist, inventor and entrepreneur, he transforms breakthrough scientific research into technologies that solve real-world energy challenges.
Before founding Quino Energy in 2021, Beh was a Member of Research Staff at Xerox PARC. There, he developed and commercialised a new redox flow battery platform. His work earned him recognition as PARC’s Most Prolific Inventor in 2020 and 2021. Earlier, he researched aqueous organic flow batteries at Harvard University. That work helped lay the scientific foundation for Quino’s technology.
Renewable electricity is only valuable if it can be stored when the wind stops blowing and the sun is not shining. Long-duration energy storage makes that possible. Today’s lithium-ion batteries become costly for extended storage. Flow batteries offer a safer and more scalable alternative. However, expensive electrolytes have limited their widespread adoption.
Quino Energy tackles this problem by replacing costly vanadium with a lower-cost organic electrolyte. The technology works with existing flow battery systems. It also cuts one of the largest costs in long-duration energy storage. This makes renewable energy storage more commercially viable for electricity grids, data centres and remote communities.
Under Beh’s leadership, Quino has moved from laboratory research to commercial deployment. The company is developing renewable microgrids in the Maldives and utility-scale projects in the United States. It is also repurposing ageing oil storage infrastructure into battery storage facilities. This approach reduces costs while giving existing industrial assets a new purpose.
As a speaker, Eugene Beh makes complex energy technologies easy to understand. He explains why battery chemistry matters to energy security, resilient power grids and economic competitiveness. He also explores how innovation can strengthen supply chains and accelerate the global energy transition. Drawing on experience across research, manufacturing and commercialisation, he offers practical insights into the technologies shaping tomorrow’s energy infrastructure.
