Long Duration Storage Shot

Small-scale batteries already give us the ability to stay connected anytime, anywhere. Larger energy storage systems, including electrochemical batteries, thermal, and mechanical systems, will provide similar dramatic benefits for entire buildings, neighborhoods, or regions. Activities throughout the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are working toward the Long Duration Storage Shot™, one of DOE's Energy Earthshots™ that aims to reduce storage costs by 90% for systems that deliver 10+ hours of electricity within the decade.

The Energy Storage Grand Challenge: Storage Coordinators

DOE's  crosscutting work in energy storage encompasses activities to accelerate the research, development, and demonstration, as well as deployment, of transformational energy storage technologies. Energy storage technologies are critical to decarbonizing the power, transportation, buildings, and industrial sectors. DOE activities are focused on demonstrating and validating existing storage technologies for new uses and identifying, developing, and commercializing new storage technologies for market adoption by the end of the decade. 

Because energy storage services can be provided by a range of distinct technologies, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge was established in 2020 across DOE offices to improve coordination and alignment of common goals for energy storage use cases, including the Long Duration Storage Shot. The Energy Storage Grand Challenge manages strategy across DOE on energy storage and coordinates the departmentwide Energy Storage System Research, Development, and Deployment Program required by the Energy Act of 2020 (42 U.S. Code § 17232(b)). 

A battery storage example at the DOE's National Renewable Energy Lab

Earthshots Initiative

The climate crisis calls for a different kind of moonshot. Energy Earthshots will accelerate breakthroughs of more abundant, affordable, and reliable energy solutions within the decade.  They will drive the major innovation breakthroughs that we know we must achieve to solve the climate crisis, reach our 2050 net-zero carbon goals, and create the jobs of the new energy economy. The Energy Earthshots target the remaining solution points of the most challenging technical problems across our energy economy.

Highlights

DOE’s Long Duration Shot Summit

 

 

Learn about the Long Duration Energy Storage Shot from the September 2022 Summit. The Long Duration Storage Shot — which aims to reduce the cost of energy storage systems by 90% within the next decade — ensures that an energy future is accessible and affordable for ALL Americans.

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