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Post, August 24, 2021 • The DOE/EPRI 2013 Electricity Storage Handbook in Collaboration with NRECA (PDF, 12 mb) has been released and is available for download. It was jointly authored by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, Electric Power Research Institute, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, and AECOM Technical Services, Inc. The Electricity Storage Handbook is...

Post, August 24, 2021 • The NAATBatt International Board of Directors will present the 2016 NAATBatt Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Service to Dr. Imre Gyuk, Energy Storage Program Manager of the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Electricity (DOE OE) Delivery and Energy Reliability, and Prof. Detchko Pavlov at the NAATBatt 2016 Annual Meeting...

Post, August 4, 2023 • The Department of Energy (DOE) defines energy burden as the percentage of gross household income spent on heating or cooling the home. According to DOE's Low-Income Energy Affordability Data Tool, the energy burden for low-income households is 8.6 percent, three times higher than for non-low-income households which is estimated at...

Post, August 24, 2021 • A new Sandia software, called Quest, can help utility companies and corporate project developers assess how much money adding an energy storage system will save them. The QuESt news release “Sandia app assesses value of energy storage for businesses, utilities” was published on May 19. So far the release has...

Post, August 24, 2021 • Babu Chalamala, manager of Sandia’s Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department, provided testimony at the State Capitol in Sacramento, on Feb. 13, at a State Assembly briefing on Zero-Carbon Grid by 2045. The well-attended briefing, hosted by a former LLNL scientist and current Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), sought to explore...

Post, August 24, 2021 • Senator Lisa Murkowski, along with Dr. Imre Gyuk, Director of the Energy Storage Program at the Office of Electricity, Department of Energy, and members of the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage Systems team, were in Cordova, Alaska for the ribbon cutting of Cordova Electric Cooperative’s battery energy storage system. The...

Post, August 4, 2023 • Department of Energy Office of Electricity (DOE OE) has published a series of reports supporting their Long Duration Storage Shot, which aims to develop specific and quantifiable RD&D pathways to reduce the cost of grid-scale energy storage by 90% for systems that deliver 10+ hours of duration by 2030. DOE...

Post, August 4, 2023 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced the ten winners of the inaugural American-Made Energy Storage Innovations Prize. The American-Made Challenge calls for solutions to grid-scale energy storage, focusing on nascent and emerging technologies that disrupt or advance current state-of-the-art energy storage research areas. As...

Post, August 4, 2023 • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it closed on a $504.4 million loan guarantee to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project in Utah — marking the first loan guarantee for a new clean energy technology project from DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) since 2014. The loan guarantee will...

Post, August 24, 2021 • The Dept. of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Energy Storage Program has announced their release of the Energy Storage Safety Strategic Plan (PDF, 685 kb) to standardize the validation of the safety of grid-scale electrical energy storage projects. The Strategic Plan addresses the key area of validated energy storage safety, spanning...

Post, August 4, 2023 • The Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity (OE) Energy Storage Program has selected 14 communities from more than 60 applicants to receive technical assistance from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as part of the Energy Storage for Social Equity (ES4SE) Initiative. Launched in September 2021 and funded by the Energy Storage Program, ES4SE supports underserved communities as...

Post, August 24, 2021 • Alliant Energy, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Iowa Economic Development Authority are jointly supporting a battery-storage solution in Decorah, Iowa that aims to connect customer-owned solar while maintaining reliable electrical service across the community. Read the article here.

Post, August 24, 2021 • A draft listing of Storage/Stationary Batteries Standards is now available for download from the Publications page of this website. The list is courtesy of Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL). In addition to summarizing the scope of each standard, the listing identifies whether the standards pertain to Safety, Performance or other purpose, as well...

Post, August 4, 2023 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) announced it selected four organizations to receive funding under the Energy Storage for Social Equity (ES4SE) Initiative. ES4SE is designed to empower disadvantaged communities to consider energy storage technologies as a viable path toward achieving their energy goals.

Post, August 4, 2023 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Office of Electricity (OE) announced a team of six DOE national laboratories to receive a total of $2 million to carry out the Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI). ROVI will validate the testing of new energy storage systems.

Post, August 4, 2023 • The Department of Energy recently launched a new $9 million effort—the Energy Storage for Social Equity Initiative (ES4SE)—to assist as many as 15 underserved and frontline communities to leverage energy storage as a means of increasing resilience and maximizing energy flexibility. This funding will help promote an equitable clean energy...

Post, August 4, 2023 • Managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions, the Lab Partnering Service (LPS) offers access to the world’s most advanced scientific facilities and researchers across the Department’s national lab complex. LPS provides investors—and other parties looking to advance energy innovation—a single online platform to connect with leading...

Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories has begun characterizing the capacity, power, safety and reliability of TransPower’s GridSaver, a 1 megawatt, lithium-ion grid energy storage system, at Sandia’s Energy Storage Test Pad. Project lead David Rosewater said, “Independent evaluations provide valuable feedback for industry efforts to standardize metrics for characterizing and reporting reliability,...

Post, August 24, 2021 • Prof. Sanjoy Banerjee of City College of New York and City University of New York Energy Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, Urban Electric Power, Inc., Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Department of Energy Office of Electricity, Energy Storage Research Program won the 2019 US Environmental Protection Agency Green Chemistry Challenge Award...

Post, August 24, 2021 • EPB has energized a 100kW/400kWh Vanadium Redox Flow Battery as part of a national research effort to explore the best use of cutting edge technologies that could be implemented across the United States to modernize the power grid. EPB’s project constitutes a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),...

Post, August 24, 2021 • A Federal energy project funded through the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity has initiated workshops designed to help state utility regulators determine best practices in policies to enable carbon-free energy storage technologies and, in particular, long duration energy storage, as renewable energy standards ramp up towards a...

Post, August 24, 2021 • The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai‘i Authority (NELHA) in partnership with Hawai‘i Electric Light Company (HELCO), the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity (DOE-OE), the Ulupono Initiative, and UniEnergy Technologies (UET) have announced their intent to install a 100kW/500kWh advanced vanadium energy storage system (ESS) later this year at the Hawai‘i...

Post, August 4, 2023 • How can US states with aggressive decarbonization goals coupled with federal decarbonization goals have energy when they need it? Long-duration energy storage (LDES) is a likely candidate. LDES systems are large energy storage installations that can store renewable energy until needed and can provide a much-needed solution for a reliable...

Post, August 24, 2021 • Yuliya Preger, PhD, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Energy Storage Technology & Systems at Sandia National Laboratories, whose work is centered on the safety and reliability of lithium-ion batteries for grid-level energy storage applications, recently conducted an interview with Battery Power Online. They spoke about the role of the Energy...