Electrical Energy Storage Factual Status Document: Resource Document for the Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Next Generation Electrical Energy Storage, March 2017

Technical Report · Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1616248· OSTI ID:1616248

Buttry, Dan ^[1]; Ceder, Gerd ^[2]; Chalamala, Babu ^[3]; Darling, Rob ^[4]; Dudney, Nancy ^[5]; Dunn, Bruce ^[6]; Ingram, Brian ^[7]; Liu, Jun ^[8]; Marschilok, Amy ^[9]; McCloskey, Bryan ^[2]; Persson, Kristin ^[2]; Prieto, Amy ^[10]; Sprenkle, Vincent ^[8]; Srinivasan, Venkat ^[7]; Stach, Eric ^[11]; Toney, Mike ^[12]; Wang, Feng ^[11]; Wu, Yiying ^[13]; Zavadil, Kevin ^[3]

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1. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
3. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
4. United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT (United States)
5. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
6. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
7. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
8. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
9. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
10. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
11. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
12. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
13. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)

Electrical energy storage is of growing importance to energy – with increasing use in transportation and on the electrical grid. Batteries are used in all types of vehicles, but have increased in importance with the growth of hybrid and all-electric powered vehicles. For the electrical grid, batteries have a wide diversity of applications from grid stability to storage of electricity generated when the load is low so it is available when there is more demand. Distributed generation of electricity by solar panels and wind generation are also drivers for enhanced energy storage. In both industries, a key enabler will be low-cost batteries with long life, excellent safety, and superior performance. In addition to these two big markets, consumer electronics powered by rechargeable batteries continues to grow into new areas with the advent of wearable technology, internet-of-things, and virtual reality. Today’s energy storage technologies fall far short of the requirements for many of these growing applications. Because of these technology gaps, advances in energy storage are expected to play a critical role for a secure energy future. This document was produced in preparation for a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences Workshop titled “Basic Research Needs for Next Generation Electrical Energy Storage.” This workshop will identify key basic research directions that could provide revolutionary breakthroughs needed for meeting future requirements for electrical energy storage. This document was intended to provide a high-level assessment of current technologies used for electrical storage—focusing specifically on batteries and electrochemical capacitors—and to define requirements that are foreseen for the future application of these technologies in transportation vehicles, stationary storage applications, and consumer electronics. Thus, it provides a common background for the workshop participants and sets the technological basis for the workshop.

• Research Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC) (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
• OSTI ID: 1616248
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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