This week's awards: Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Demonstrations Program's Second Life Smart Systems (SMART)
Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
June 26, 2024
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On Wednesdays, OCED will announce the latest projects that have successfully completed award negotiations. OCED will only issue an Award Wednesday notification on weeks when an award has been finalized.
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS
Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Demonstrations Program
Second Life Smart Systems (SMART)
OCED awarded the LDES SMART project, led by Smartville, Inc., with nearly $1 million (of the total project federal cost share of up to $10 million) in federal funding to begin Phase 1 of its project plan to demonstrate the viability of repurposed lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries in LDES systems across a range of use cases, environments, and sizes—from smaller scale (50kW x 10 hour) to larger scale (200kW x 10 hour). The SMART project will be located in Los Angeles County, CA; Orangeburg, SC; Denmark, SC; Atlanta, GA; and New Orleans, LA. During Phase 1, which is expected to last 12-16 months, Smartville and the project team will conduct foundational activities such as formalizing the project plan, signing partnership agreements, gaining site control, conducting interconnection studies, defining the permit plan, performing environmental planning, and conducting engineering and design work.
View the project factsheet and Community Benefits Commitments Summary here. Learn more about engagement opportunities here.
