Dr. Stan Atcitty was featured in the Winds of Change magazine, published by American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). AISES is a national nonprofit organization focused on increasing the representation of Indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific Islands in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies and careers. Stan was recognized for his work securing funding for and helping maintain a partnership with Navajo Technical University and other tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). Read more in the Summer 2023 Winds of Change.

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 recently published eleven technical reports summarizing and analyzing explore the promising RD&D pathways to substantially lower the costs of long-duration energy storage.

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.

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 and decarbonized grid. But planning needs to start now, according to new research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

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.

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 part of DOE’s Storage Innovations 2030 Initiative, this prize is helping industry develop new technologies that have greatest potential to meet grid reliability, equity, and decarbonization goals.  

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing a lab call to develop the Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI), which will address critical gaps in data needs to evaluate energy storage, such as the lack of access to large and uniform sets of performance data that are necessary to accelerate the pace at which technology development can occur.

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 help finance construction of the largest clean hydrogen storage facility in the world, capable of providing long-term low-cost, seasonal energy storage, furthering grid stability. The project is expected to create up to 400 construction and 25 operations jobs, advancing President Biden’s climate and clean energy deployment goal of net zero emissions by 2050. 

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 they leverage energy storage as a means of increasing resilience and long-term affordability.