CEC / DOE Collaboration on Energy Storage: The collaboration is a partnership between the DOE ESS Program and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to demonstrate electrical energy storage as a technically viable, cost-effective, and broadly applicable option for increasing the reliability and electric energy management of the California electricity system. In response to a CEC Program Opportunity Notice, three major projects totaling $9.6M were selected. Supercapacitors, zinc-bromine batteries, and flywheels are the technologies represented. DOE, through Sandia National Laboratories, oversees the technical management of these demonstration projects, which includes data collection, analysis, and performance monitoring by EPRI-Solutions.
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NYSERDA / DOE Joint Energy Storage Initiative: The initiative is a partnership between the DOE ESS Program and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to demonstrate electrical energy storage as a technically viable, cost-effective, and broadly applicable option for increasing the reliability and electric energy management of the New York electricity system. In response to a NYSERDA Program Opportunity Notice, six projects totaling $5.6M were selected. They include three major demonstration projects that showcase flywheel, sodium-sulfur battery, and lead-acid battery technologies. DOE, through Sandia National Laboratories, oversees the technical management of these demonstration projects, which includes data collection, analysis, and performance monitoring by EnerNex at multiple sites in New York.
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INTERIM PROJECT REPORT – Commissioning and Initial Technical & Economic Data Collection in FY06 of Three Pioneering Energy Storage Systems in the DOE Collaborations with CEC and NYSERDA: A Study for the DOE Energy Storage Program: During Fiscal Year 2006, three of the six Pioneering Energy Storage System Projects in DOE’s collaboration with the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) began producing technical and economic data for collection and evaluation. DOE has issued this interim report that summarizes the work in commissioning, data collection and analysis of these projects. The three projects are meeting, if not exceeding, the expectations of the DOE Energy Storage Systems Research Program.
FY07 SBIR Projects: Five SBIR projects have been selected for Phase I funding under topics 45a and 45b of the FY 07 SBIR Solicitation. The topics are "Wide Band Gap, High Voltage, High Frequency Switches" and "Advanced Nano-Materials for Energy Storage Applications".
Two projects selected for Phase II funding in FY 06 under topic 1a of the FY05 SBIR Solicitation are continuing research. The topic is "Seeking Promising Advances in Utilizing Currently Available Wide Band Gap Devices in Power Conversion System Design to Improve Performance and Manufacturability."
The following solicitations for FY08 Phase I funding closed 11/27/07 and awards will be announced 4/4/08:
- 6a, 6b (Solid State Electrolyte Development)
- 28a (Vulnerability Reduction via Advanced Power Electronics)
- 29a (Intrinsic Cell Balancing and 29b (Advanced Bonding for SiC Switches)
Software for Analyzing Hybrid Generation Sources Developed: DOE’s Energy Storage Systems Program, with the cooperation of Sandia National Laboratories, SENTECH Corp. and the Alaskan Energy Authority, funded the successful development of HybSim© (Hybrid Simulator), a simulation tool for analyzing technical and economical impacts from hybrid generation sources — PV, diesel, battery, wind. For a period of four years, Sandia and SENTECH personnel developed the software and tested it on a remote Alaskan village, in which the HybSim© software validated significant energy savings due to a diesel/PV hybrid generation system. The University of Michigan is currently instituting HybSim© as part of it's engineering curriculum. For information, contact: David Trujillo at Sandia National Laboratories.
Iowa Stored Energy Park: The Iowa Stored Energy Plant Agency (ISEPA), a group of municipally-owned electric utilities, is aggressively investigating the construction of a 200-MW Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) power plant and 75-MW wind farm in Iowa. Iowa has abundant wind resources; but the variable and uncontrolled output of wind generation limits the amount of wind-generated energy that can be incorporated into the grid. Congressionally-directed funds for the project are being managed by DOE through its Energy Storage Systems Program, with technical assistance from Sandia National Laboratories. Projected to begin operations in 2010, ISEPA’s project calls for the compression and storage of air in an underground aquifer, using inexpensive off-peak electricity from the grid and wind turbines, which would be released from storage on demand to drive natural-gas-fired combustion turbines; thus, better utilizing Iowa’s available wind-generated energy.
