Draft Storage/Stationary Battery Standards List Is Available from UL

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 as providing some cross-referencing to related standards.

Sandia researcher authors ‘Battery Energy Storage System’ for Springer-Verlag London

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Stan Atcitty recently coauthored a chapter titled “Battery Energy Storage System” in Power Electronics for Renewable and Distributed Energy Systems, a volume published last July by Springer-Verlag London. This chapter discusses the various technical components of battery energy storage systems for utility-scale energy storage and how these technical components are interrelated. Atcitty’s coauthors were Jason Neely, David Ingersoll, Abbas Akhil, and Karen Waldrip.

Atcitty, S., Neely, J., Ingersoll, D., Akhil, A., Waldrip, K. (2013). Battery Energy Storage System. In: Chakraborty, S., Simões, M., Kramer, W. (eds) Power Electronics for Renewable and Distributed Energy Systems. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5104-3_9.

2013 Electricity Storage Handbook Released

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 a how-to guide for utility and rural cooperative engineers, planners, and decision makers to plan and implement energy storage projects. The Handbook also serves as an information resource for investors and venture capitalists, providing the latest developments in technologies and tools to guide their evaluations of energy storage opportunities. It includes a comprehensive database of the cost of current storage systems in a wide variety of electric utility and customer services, along with interconnection schematics. A list of significant past and present energy storage projects is provided for a practical perspective.

NV Energy Electricity Storage Valuation Study Released

Sandia National Laboratories’ Electric Power Systems Research Dept. and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Advanced Power and Energy Systems Group have released a jointly authored report that examines how grid-level electricity storage might benefit the operations of NV Energy in 2020, and assesses whether those benefits justify the cost of the storage system.

Titled “NV Energy Electricity Storage Valuation” (PDF, 933 kb), the report finds that grid-level storage adds the most value to the 2020 NV Energy system by providing regulating reserve, and that a grid-level storage facility in the 2020 NV Energy system may have a positive net present value at today’s storage system prices, provided that regulating reserve from a fast ramp rate resource is valued more than that from a slow ramp rate resource.

ECS 17th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XVII)

The International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells has been the preeminent meeting on SOFC science, technology, and applications for over 30 years, consistently attracting hundreds of the leaders in the field. Join us for five days of learning, networking, and collaborating.

Meeting registration is required and will open in April 2021. Please note that all participants, including authors and invited speakers, are required to pay meeting registration fees.