The Office of Electricity (OE) provides leadership to ensure that the Nation’s energy delivery system provides reliable, resilient, secure, and affordable electricity. Maintaining a robust electricity grid is critical as the Nation experiences rapid transformation in how electricity is both generated and consumed due to trends in how the generation mix is changing, the amount and location of electricity demand, and increasing number of threats to infrastructure security and reliability. Deploy an innovative energy storage technology at a host site with identified resiliency needs at the required scale, performance, and technology maturity level appropriate to advance technology towards commercialization. Energy storage technologies of interest may have characteristics such as:
1. Cost and performance measures that are attractive to potential end
users and can be validated in the field including a LCOS of < $.05/kWh.
2. Use materials and components that have favorable manufacturing and supply chain attributes such as available domestic suppliers and minimal price and supply volatility.
3. High likelihood that demonstration system can be delivered at scale and within budget.
4. Demonstrate the benefits of an innovative energy storage technology being used in the field to the large energy storage end-user and potential investor ecosystem.
5. Identify a host site that has a compelling need for a dependable supply of energy based on potential impact if the site were not able to maintain normal operations during a grid outage or other emergency event.
6. Learn from industry and community stakeholders the type of criteria they consider are crucial for “validation” of a new technology. Can consider these criteria for defining validation objectives for future strategy and activities.
7. Conduct analysis on the value of resiliency provided by the energy storage system and use or develop valuation methods could be leveraged by other that are considering similar projects.
8. Disseminate results and methods used for quantifying value of energy resiliency to broad set of stakeholders interested in resiliency solutions.
9. Demonstrations that that provide community benefits and address workforce considerations.
10. Willingness to participate in Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI) data sharing program with national labs.
1) Energy Storage System (ESS) Technical Details:
Applications must describe how the proposed ESS meets the following technical requirements to be an eligible technology for this opportunity:
a) Bi-directional Electrical System: ESS must be a bi-directional electricity-in, electricity out system and provide information on expected performance metrics that explain the technical capabilities of the technology.
b) System Size and Duration Requirements: Demonstration must have the capability to discharge at least 100 kW of electricity for at least 10 hours at the maximum rated power.
c) Technology Maturity: Technology is sufficiently mature for an innovative field demonstration opportunity in a critical facility.
2) Innovative ESS Demonstration: Applications must describe how the proposed ESS demonstration will demonstrate an innovative storage solution and the technology towards widespread commercialization
3) Critical Facility or Infrastructure Host Site:
a) Site Description and Requirements: Applications must describe the physical location where the ESS will be sited as well as the building, facility, or otherDE-FOA-0003384 Page 13 of 120 infrastructure that it will be supporting.
4) Resiliency Analytics: Applications must describe the proposed methodology that they will use to quantify the value that resiliency the demonstration will provide to the site and could be used in future storage projects to justify investment in them as resiliency assets.
5) Results Dissemination: Applications must describe strategy for presenting results on both the performance of the demonstration project and the resiliency analysis to relevant stakeholders.
6) Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI): Applicants must acknowledge and agree to share data generated in this demonstration opportunity with ROVI and the National Laboratories involved with the project
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