US Energy Department in Washington, DC
Three experimental energy storage projects to maintain power during emergency and power outages were awarded almost $ 15 million by the US Ministry of Energy.
“Maintaining the critical infrastructure will ensure that the Nation’s electricity network remains reliable, durable and secure as we browse different emerging threats,” said Gil Bindwald, Deputy Deputy Assistant General Secretary communication. “This investment of $ 15 million deepen our commitment to modernize the nation’s electricity grid through innovative energy storage solutions.”
A pair of $ 5m grants went to Binghamton University in New York and California’s Long Hill Energy Partners University.
Binghamton University will lead a partnership to develop and show how a new technology for a cane-scale battery storage system (using bio-bored lithic gross phosphate) can improve energy resistance to the Endicott village of Endicott.
Long Hill Energy Partners and her project team were awarded federal funds to prove the feasibility of a quinine battery as a source of energy at the High Desert Regional Health Center in the Antelope Valley area of North Los Angeles.
Downloading a slightly lower $ 4.1 million grant from DOE was Inlyte Energy Inc. of San Leandro, California.
These three projects were chosen to show out how energy storage technologies can benefit the critical infrastructure during an emergency or power outages.
“Selected projects will help promote innovative storage technologies from research and development of early stage in wide commercialization,” Doe said. “Energy resilience is vital to support the nation’s electricity grid through extreme weather conditions, cyberspace or natural attacks, aging infrastructure and electromagnetic events with the ability to cause extensive power outages.”
The grants come from the DOE electricity office and are awarded through the critical energy resilience. The Electricity Office has an energy storage department that focuses investment in innovative storage technologies from early research and development to commercialization. Projects must increase flexibility and be costly efficient, safe and reliable.
Each grant concerns a project with a period of performance that does not last more than 36 months from the date of the DOE award to the time of the demonstration.
The funding announcement emphasized the need for US facilities to provide critical social and economic services during rare events of high impact that can cause power vacation.
“Traditional power solutions, such as diesel generators, may have disadvantages, such as the required fuel storage, the ability to stop fuel delivery, extensive maintenance, harmful emissions and limited value proposal during non -emergency events,” Energy system using R&D.
