U.S. Government Awards $27.7M for Long-duration Storage Projects, Research, and Prototypes

Renewable Energy World: Last week the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced 10 projects that will receive funding through a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program called Duration Addition to electricitY Storage (DAYS). The projects seek to provide up to 100 hours of energy storage.

The announcement was made by Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar at the Innovation XLab Energy Storage Summit at SLAC National Laboratory.

“The DAYS awardees will take a good look at what tomorrow’s grid-scale storage could be, and work to develop the technologies that get us there,” said Under Secretary Dabbar.

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