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Today, the U.S. Department of Energy released its draft Energy Storage Strategy and Roadmap and a Notice of Availability seeking stakeholder input on the draft Strategy and Roadmap.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released its draft Energy Storage Strategy and Roadmap (SRM), a plan that provides strategic direction and identifies key opportunities to optimize DOE’s investment in future planning of energy storage research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects. DOE also issued a Notice of Availability (NOA) seeking stakeholder input on the draft and how DOE could advance its energy storage activities to help ensure the evolving electricity grid can accommodate diverse energy sources, including renewable and nuclear energy, and fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal.
DOE’s strategic investment in energy storage aims to ensure that all Americans have access to energy storage innovations to enable resilient, reliable, secure, and affordable electricity systems and supplies. “This roadmap will guide DOE’s energy storage activities to help propel this critical and fast-moving industry,” said Eric Hsieh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Storage in the Office of Electricity.
In January 2020, DOE launched the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) to facilitate a department-wide strategy to accelerate the development, commercialization, and use of next-generation energy storage technologies and sustain American global leadership in energy storage. In December 2020, DOE released the ESGC Roadmap, the Department’s first comprehensive energy storage strategy to develop and domestically manufacture energy storage technologies that can meet all U.S. market demands by 2030.
Since the ESGC’s 2020 Roadmap release, DOE determined updates to the roadmap were warranted to help improve the execution of its energy storage activities. Specifically, the draft Energy Storage SRM updates the earlier ESGC Roadmap in consideration of the progress made across the energy storage sector since 2020, as well as reflects DOE’s recent activities in support of its energy storage mission and vision.
This SRM outlines activities that implement the strategic objectives facilitating safe, beneficial and timely storage deployment; empowering decisionmakers by providing data-driven information analysis; and leveraging the country’s global leadership to advance durable engagement throughout the innovation ecosystem. This SRM does not address new policy actions, nor does it specify budgets and resources for future activities.
DOE is seeking comment from stakeholders to inform its draft Energy Storage SRM through a formal NOA. Interested stakeholders can view both the draft SRM and the official NOA.
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