Full Title: NREL Energy Storage Projects: FY2013 Annual Report
Author(s): U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Publisher(s): U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Publication Date: July 1, 2014
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Description (excerpt):
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory supports energy storage R&D under the Office of Vehicle Technologies at the U.S. Department of Energy. The DOE Energy Storage Program’s charter is to develop battery technologies that will enable large market penetration of electric drive vehicles. These vehicles could have a significant impact on the nation’s goal of reducing dependence on imported oil and gaseous pollutant emissions. DOE has established several program activities to address and overcome the barriers limiting the penetration of electric drive battery technologies: cost, performance, safety, and life. These programs are:
• Advanced Battery Development through the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC)
• Battery Testing, Analysis, and Design
• Applied Battery Research (ABR)
• Focused Fundamental Research, or Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT)
In FY13, DOE funded NREL to make technical contributions to all of these R&D activities. This report summarizes NREL’s R&D projects in FY13 in support of the USABC; Battery Testing, Analysis, and Design; ABR; and BATT program elements. The FY13 projects under NREL’s Energy Storage R&D program are briefly described below. Each of these is discussed in depth in this report