Duration Addition to electricitY Storage
Program Description:
The projects that comprise ARPA-E’s DAYS (Duration Addition to electricitY Storage) program will develop energy storage systems that provide power to the electric grid for durations of 10 to approximately 100 hours, opening significant new opportunities to increase grid resilience and performance. Whereas most new energy storage systems today deliver power over limited durations, for example to alleviate transmission congestion, stabilize voltage and frequency levels, or provide intra-day shifts of energy, the extended discharge times of DAYS projects will enable a new set of applications including long-lasting backup power and even greater integration of domestic, renewable energy resources.
Project teams will seek to develop storage systems that are deployable in almost any location and charge and discharge electricity at a target fixed cost per cycle. Projects will fall into two categories: 1) DAYS systems that provide daily cycling in addition to longer duration, less frequent cycling and 2) DAYS systems that do not provide daily cycling, but can take over when daily cycling resources are either filled or depleted. DAYS projects will explore a new design space in electricity storage that allows for strategic compromise of performance to achieve extremely low costs. The program also seeks to establish new paradigms for increasing stored energy and extending duration of stationary electricity storage systems.
Innovation Need:
Long-duration energy storage systems address grid needs beyond those covered by daily cycling. Such systems could provide backup power for several days or allow integration of even larger amounts of intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar. In the near term, such systems could help shape the output from individual wind and solar installations, improving the reliability of these resources and thus greatly increasing their value to the grid.
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Project Listing
• Brayton Energy - Improved Laughlin-Brayton Cycle Energy Storage
• Columbia University - Minimally Orchestrated Storage Technology for Duration Addition to Electricity Storage
• Echogen Power Systems - Low-Cost, Long Duration Electrical Energy Storage Using a CO2-based Pumped Thermal Energy Storage (PTES) System
• Form Energy - Aqueous Sulfur Systems for Long-Duration Grid Storage
• Michigan State University (MSU) - Scalable Thermochemical Option for Renewable Energy Storage (STORES)
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - Economic Long-Duration Electricity Storage by Using Low-Cost Thermal Energy Storage and High-Efficiency Power Cycle
• Quidnet Energy - Geomechanical Pumped Storage
• RedoxBlox - Scalable Thermochemical Option for Renewable Energy Storage (STORES)
• United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) - High-Performance Flow Battery with Inexpensive Inorganic Reactants
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) - Reversible Fuel Cells for Long Duration Storage