Doe battery program

ES4SE is designed to empower urban, rural, and tribal disadvantaged communities to consider energy storage technologies and applications as a viable path towards community prosperity, well-being, and resilience.

The primary goal is to support communities affected by unreliable and expensive energy systems. Through this program, eligible communities have access to direct non-financial technical assistance and potential support for new energy storage project development and deployment. These batteries do not have some of the limitations of lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries, and they use materials that are abundant and common in existing supply chains. The DOE Global Energy Storage Database is the go-to source for unbiased, accurate, and up-to-date information on energy-storage projects and policies.

JCESR is a leader in the scientific community, both initiating and participating in important energy storage conferences worldwide. In addition, JCESR researchers participate in several scientific conferences and regional events throughout the year in a leadership position. The simulation of perfect crystalline materials for cathodes with the Materials Project and of organic molecules for electrolytes with the Electrolyte Genome allows thousands of new materials to be explored for energy storage applications.

Multimodal characterization of materials by X-rays, infrared spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance enables rapid fundamental understanding of the atomic and molecular origins of overall materials behavior. JCESR continues to significantly enhance the capabilities of these incisive tools and apply them in new contexts. Prev Next. Susan A. Read Press Release. View More. Fourteen teams participated in Phase II of the prize, which focused on building industry partnerships to design, simulate, and prototype a proof-of-concept solution.

Teams incorporated battery collection, sorting and separation, safe storage and transportation, and reverse logistics into a cohesive end-to-end solution. Winning concept innovations ranged from incentivizing consumer electronics collection to certification programs for electric vehicle batteries.

The bright ideas that sparked participation in Phase I are becoming comprehensive business plans built for success after the prize's conclusion. Solutions focus on real-world scenarios for the safe recovery of one or multiple LIB applications consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and stationary storage.