The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Joint Program is a partnership between DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) and DOD’s Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy Resilience and Optimization (ODASD (ER&O)). This program was established to demonstrate promising LDES technologies that can operate for more than 10 hours at DOD facilities, campuses, and installations and to help new and innovative LDES technologies become commercially viable.
The DOD’s Environmental Security Technology Certification Program and the Defense Innovation Unit, in partnership with OCED, awarded nearly $19 million in combined funds to CellCube Inc. to install a 500 kW vanadium redox flow battery energy storage system at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, CA.