Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Archives

Report: Quality assurance and monitoring could prevent most battery storage failures

TWAICE, EPRI, and PNNL have issued a joint study categorizing BESS failure incidents by cause and failed element.

Partners look to AI to reduce C&I solar project costs

The research team’s efforts will be focused on reducing O&M costs in commercial & industrial solar portfolios.

Battery design from PNNL could help integrate renewables into the grid

The molten salt battery design has the potential to charge and discharge faster than other conventional high-temperature sodium batteries.

Work starts on Grid Storage Launchpad at U.S. national energy laboratory

Work is under way on a $75 million facility that could help boost clean energy adoption and make the nation’s power grid more resilient, secure and flexible. The Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL) is being developed by the Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). It will allow researchers to validate and test new grid storage technologies, from basic materials and

PNNL researchers announce waste-to-hydrogen conversion process

A research team at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a system capable of converting waste from sewage, food crops, algae and other renewable carbon sources into hydrogen fuel.