DOE awards $2.4M for hydrogen energy storage technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) is awarding $2.4 million to three projects to advance thermal and hydrogen energy storage technologies.
The technologies will initially support transitioning of existing fossil assets to low carbon energy systems. They also support FECM’s Energy Storage program and DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge, which seeks to develop and manufacture domestic energy storage technologies. DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will manage the projects.
“The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management is investing in projects that will advance thermal and hydrogen energy storage technologies for use during and beyond the electricity decarbonization transition,” Acting Assistant Secretary of FECM Dr. Jennifer Wilcox said. “By validating new options for electricity storage, these projects will move us toward achieving the cost and performance goals of DOE’s Long Duration Storage Shot—to reduce the cost of grid-scale energy storage by 90 percent for systems that deliver 10 or more hours of duration in one decade.”
One of the projects earmarked for funding is the Sand Thermal Energy Storage (SandTES) Pilot Design in the amount of $995,316. This project is being done by the Electric Power Research Institute and partners.
Another is for Hydrogen Storage for Load-Following and Clean Power: Duct-firing of Hydrogen to Improve the Capacity Factor of NGCC. Gas Technology Institute and partners will receive $1,131,971 for this project.
The third is the Economically Viable Intermediate to Long Duration Hydrogen Energy Storage Solutions for Fossil Fueled Assets. This award, in the amount of $1,009,346, goes to WE New Energy and partners.
FECM funds research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects to decarbonize power generation and industrial sources and to mitigate the environmental impacts of fossil fuel use.
