Kotzebue Electric Association's goal for this project is to analyze and demonstrate flow battery systems and their potential for energy storage in rural wind systems.
Energy storage can be considered a critical area of energy research, as storage remains one of the fundamental barriers to the feasible deployment of most renewable energy technology and the integration of multiple energy resources into energy generation. Large scale batteries for wind diesel systems that could provide village utility grid stabilization and load shifting are currently being developed by several suppliers. If these batteries become commercial products at the price points currently being anticipated, they could provide significant diesel fuel savings in communities with wind resources.
A battery is an electromechanical method of storing energy, meaning that energy is stored by chemical changes in a system, often between a metal and an oxidized state of that metal (ex: lead acid batteries have lead plates). Flow batteries use materials with multiple valence states so that electrons can be stored in an electrolyte solution which contains several ionic species. Since battery degradation often involves undesirable stray reactions that occur at the metal-electrolyte interface, these systems avoid those degradation mechanisms, and are projected to have very long lifetimes.
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Project Outline
Objectives
Technology
Work Plan
Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting
Funding Outline
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Funding Goals
This project is a Denali Commission EETG Program project. The funding goal of the EETG program is to develop emerging energy technology that has the potential of widespread deployment in Alaska and has the long-term goal of reducing energy costs for Alaskans.
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Project Management
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The Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP), an energy research group housed under the Institute of Northern Engineering at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is serving as the program manager of the EETG solicitation. As the projects deal with emerging energy technology and by nature are high risk, high reward, ACEP’s technical knowledge and objective academic management of the projects, specifically for data collection, analysis, and reporting, is a vital component to the intent of the solicitation, i.e., providing lessons learned and recommendations. |
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