Award Name: Rural Energy Viability for Integrated Vital Energy (REVIVE)
Award Number: DE-EE0011405
Funding Agency: DOE OCED (US Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations)
Act (If Applicable)
Location(s):
- Illinois: Jo Daviess County
- Iowa: Allamakee County
- Wisconsin: Monroe County
Current Stage in Project
Timeline of Project
Budget: $57,000,000
Grant Funds: $28,500,000
Summary of Funding Program: This grant supports the commercialization of long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies to help build a more reliable renewable energy grid. It seeks projects that can store energy for over 10 hours, overcoming existing barriers related to cost, technology, and market limitations. The goal is to achieve a storage cost of $0.05/kWh by 2030 while creating long-term jobs in the LDES sector.
Applicants must collaborate with local communities, industry partners, and Tribal entities, while ensuring compliance with environmental and historical regulations. Projects should consider local impacts and include decommissioning plans to avoid negative effects on the community and workforce.
Summary of Project: Rural areas are often the last to benefit from innovation, have lower household incomes, and have limited resources to invest in emerging technologies. Power outages are increasingly common in these areas, leaving communities and critical infrastructure more vulnerable. To address these challenges Dairyland is utilizing vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) with nominal discharge ratings of 700kW to 3.6MW and discharge capabilities of up to 20 hours. The aim is to bring high-benefit, low-risk energy solutions to vulnerable and underserved rural areas. For co-ops that may not have experience with long-duration energy storage (LDES), this demonstration will showcase the value and the implementation path for LDES and give the co-ops experience working with the technology, spurring replication opportunities with co-ops across the country. The project will also help grow flow battery production nationally by providing data into the DOE’s Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI) for Flow Batteries program. The technology provider, Invinity Energy Systems, is a global leader in the production of vanadium flow batteries (VFB). Invinity’s flow batteries have high efficiencies and long lifespans. The company has already successfully installed its VFBs elsewhere in the world, including in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the UK.
Dairyland is implementing this project with Invinity Energy Systems, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL will carry out the techno-economic analyses and data collection for the project, which will inform decision-making and provide valuable insights into the potential benefits of VRFBs.
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