Four Years of the Torus Journey

Hey everyone, Nate here. While May the Fourth is more commonly known as Star Wars Day, for us at Torus it's our birthday! This past weekend marked four years since the founding of Torus, and we wanted to look back on our journey so far and thank everyone who has been with us along the way.

Four years ago, a small team of dreamers and doers decided that energy storage needed a radical rethinking. Back then, it was just a handful of us crowded in the small shop in Springville, Utah, working on prototypes and collecting the brightest minds we could find. We didn't have the fancy equipment yet—just grit, great people, and a habit of working our butts off until the job was done.

What we lacked in resources, we made up for in vision. We wanted a future with more control over how we made and stored our own energy, and insight into where the energy came from. We wanted to make a commercially viable flywheel—a mechanical battery that could store and release energy with unprecedented efficiency, minimal environmental impact, and decades of operational life.

It was objectively crazy, but the best ideas usually start that way.

Fast-forward to today:

• 100 Torus teammates who still run toward the hard problems
• A manufacturing headquarters in South Salt Lake that we've already outgrown (more on this coming soon)
• An industry-changing partnership with Rocky Mountain Power that's helping solve some of Utah's most pressing energy challenges
• And yes—making TIME's 2024 Best Invention list for the Torus Spin Flywheel was a moment we'll never forget

The contrast between our first team photo in front of that small Springville workshop and our latest with nearly 100 employees in our huge South Salt Lake manufacturing space tells the story. But numbers and buildings only tell one part—they miss the late nights, the failed prototypes, the moments when we wondered if we could get the physics to cooperate.

These images don't capture the first time we successfully deployed a full-scale flywheel system and watched it respond to a demand response event. Or the countless iterations our R&D team went through on the flywheel encasement to maximize efficiency and safety.

What started as a bare-bones prototype has evolved into a sophisticated product line that's transforming how energy is stored and distributed.

So what's next for Torus? We're scaling production to meet growing demand. We're pushing our R&D team to make our flywheels even more efficient, more affordable, and more adaptable to different environments. We're working on streamlining the permitting process for utility-grade installations.

The Rocky Mountain Power partnership has been transformative, allowing us to deploy and test our technology at scale while providing real-world benefits to Utah's power grid. This collaboration model is one we hope to replicate with other forward-thinking utilities across the country.

The energy landscape is transforming rapidly, and Torus is positioning itself to be at the center of that transformation—quite literally serving as the hub around which next-generation power infrastructure revolves.

If you've welded a component, written a line of code, secured financing, or simply cheered us on from the sidelines—thank you. You've taken what seemed like an audacious idea and helped make it real, functional, and increasingly essential.

To our early customers who took a chance on us: we're honored to continue earning your trust every day.

To our team members past and present: your intelligence, dedication, and willingness to push boundaries continue to be the true Torus competitive advantage.

And we're just getting warmed up! Here's to four more great years!

— Nate, Founder & CEO