Countdown to a New Era of Grid Energy Storage Innovation
PNNL is preparing for the Grid Storage Launchpad building dedication on August 13, 2024.
This new national capability will address crosscutting challenges in grid and transportation storage technologies to help meet the nation's decarbonization goals.
Expert Insights: Eric Hsieh Talks GSL, Energy Storage, and Beyond
In a dynamic Q&A session with Eric Hsieh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Electricity's (OE's) Energy Storage Division, we explored the upcoming GSL dedication and its role in advancing the nation's grid modernization efforts.
Q. What inspires you to get up each morning and face the day?
Tackling challenging problems that deliver tangible energy benefits to people around the world. I enjoy creating environments where others can succeed, especially the next generation of energy storage innovators.
Q. What inspired you to pursue a career in energy?
During my senior year of college, I worked with a professor who was one of the formative experts in power systems engineering. She introduced me to a project simulating electricity trading among agents. It clicked for me when I realized that energy was an area that was as challenging from a technical standpoint as it is from a qualitative, interpersonal, and societal standpoint.
The Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative (GMI) has announced its strategy for investing in innovative new technologies to modernize today’s power grid while ensuring it remains secure and sustainable.
DOE Awards Guam Power Authority (GPA) $1 Million for Grid Enhancement with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) Support
The DOE-OE has awarded $1 million to the GPA to improve grid reliability and resiliency. The grant supports GPA's partnership with PNNL to develop real-time grid management tools to enhance grid stability while integrating more renewable energy.
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PNNL Develops New Models to Enhance Grid Stability with Grid-Informing Inverters
Researchers at PNNL and their collaborators have created new models meant to allow power system engineers to evaluate how a new technology, the grid-forming inverter, would work on the grid to improve grid stability.
Quino Energy's Flow Battery Pilot Supported by PNNL
Quino Energy has launched a 100kWH flow battery pilot, employing a zero-waste production process. The pilot will be sent to PNNL’s Grid Storage Launchpad for validation, highlighting PNNL’s role in supporting innovative energy storage technologies.
2024 Energy Storage Grand Challenge Summit: August 7-9
The Department of Energy's 4th Annual Energy Storage Grand Challenge Summit is taking place August 7-9, 2024, at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA. This event will feature keynote presentations, technical sessions, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, focusing on groundbreaking solutions and advancements in energy storage. Registration and event overview.
Advanced Grid Institute Day 2024: August 28
Grid Institute (AGI) Day will bring together colleagues from state and federal agencies, utilities, industry, national laboratories, and academia, for a day of lively panel discussions and presentations. This year’s theme is “Nexus of Power Systems Engineering and Advanced Analytics toward a Resilient and Decarbonized Grid.”
The WSU-PNNL Advanced Grid Institute is a joint research collaboration of Washington State University (WSU) and PNNL.
GridFWD 2024 shares new and expanding opportunities to refine market structures and supporting technology and techniques to foster grid modernization. Register for GridFWD 2024.
International Conference on Sodium Batteries: November 11-14
Join the International Conference on Sodium Batteries from November 11-14, 2024, at PNNL in Richland, WA. This event will gather academic researchers, industrial manufacturers, and policy experts for a 4-day collaborative forum on sustainable sodium battery technologies. Registration and event overview.
PNNL research provides a clear understanding of the technology needs for integrating energy storage into the grid. We work with utilities and industry to assess the optimal role for energy storage installations under local operational and market conditions. Our research teams support field deployments where we work with stakeholders to characterize the value, understand usage and controls, and generally improve the benefits that energy storage systems provide to the grid. These data, provided to all stakeholders, assure that research development and deployment is working toward a cleaner power future for America.
Understanding the benefits of the wide variety of storage technologies and developing the critical advancements required to bring down the cost of energy storage will help integrate renewable power sources such as wind, solar, and marine energy and energize a modern, flexible, and resilient power grid.
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