Contentful ID
135151d7-ad0a-412d-ad1f-72cd7d099ab9-draft
Company Values
Entity Description
NREL focuses on the research, development, commercialization and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
Entity Name
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
National Lab
Is LCRI Company?
No
Technology Areas
Technology Description
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory team will develop a high temperature, low cost thermal energy storage system using a high performance heat exchanger and closed loop Brayton cycle turbine to generate power. Electric heaters will warm stable, inexpensive solid particles to temperatures greater than 1100°C during charging. To discharge the system, the particles will be fed through the heat exchanger, heating a working fluid to drive the gas turbine attached to a generator. The electricity storage system is designed to be deployed economically anywhere in the United States.
Technology Name
Economic Long-duration Electricity Storage by Using Low-cost Thermal Energy Storage and High efficiency Power Cycle