Vasco da Gama CoLAB is the first Portuguese association aiming to merge key Portuguese energy storage players from academia (IST, University of Porto), corporate (EDP and EFACEC) and start-ups (Visblue and C2C-NewCap). The goal of Vasco da Gama CoLAB is to crossover agendas between the partners involved and to forge new synergies to tackle critical society challenges in what comes to the energy sector, namely energy harvesting from renewable sources, smart grids, wind power, photovoltaics and transportation. Vasco da Gama CoLAB works in three major pillars in the energy storage area sector: a) vanadium redox flow batteries; b) supercapacitors and c) power electronics and intelligent energy management system.