Planning and goals for energy storage sales

What is the Energy Storage Safety Strategic Plan?

The Energy Storage Safety Strategic Plan was developed by Pacific Northwest Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories with the support of the Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Energy Storage Program since July 2015.

Does the energy storage strategic plan address new policy actions?

This SRM does not address new policy actions, nor does it specify budgets and resources for future activities. This Energy Storage SRM responds to the Energy Storage Strategic Plan periodic update requirement of the Better Energy Storage Technology (BEST) section of the Energy Policy Act of 2020 (42 U.S.C. § 17232 (b) (5)).

What is a storage management plan (SRM)?

This SRM outlines activities that implement the strategic objectives facilitating safe, beneficial and timely storage deployment; empower decisionmakers by providing data-driven information analysis; and leverage the country’s global leadership to advance durable engagement throughout the innovation ecosystem.

How to make energy storage bankable?

Stacking of payments is the most common way to make the business model for energy storage bankable whilst optimizing services to the grid. In its simplest version it contains: Let the best technology provide the service(s) the grid needs. Thinking of technology first could do the grid a diservice. l o n e p ro je c t s ? I t d e p e n d s .

Why is Doe investing in energy storage?

The underlying motivation for DOE’s strategic investment in energy storage is to ensure that the American people will have access to energy storage innovations that enable resilient, flexible, affordable, and secure energy systems and supply, for everyone, everywhere.