About
The Aqueous Battery Consortium is a large group of scientists from 15 research institutions seeking to invent a reliable, safe, environmentally sustainable, long-lasting, and inexpensive battery powerful enough to support a local electricity grid. The U.S. Department of Energy funds this new research project, which is led by Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Aqueous Battery Consortium is administered by Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy.
The researchers’ fundamental approach is to make the rechargeable battery’s electrolyte mostly from water and the rest of the device primarily from Earth-abundant elements. The Aqueous Battery Consortium’s researchers think that water is the only realistic solvent to offer the type of scale and affordability needed for such batteries. This project undertakes the grand challenge of electrochemical energy storage for electricity grids dependent on intermittent solar and wind power. The scale of stationary energy storage needed globally to support electricity systems with net-zero carbon emissions is huge.
The Aqueous Battery Consortium's research is organized into six key fundamental scientific aims and three topics that cut across the project's six aims. The total of nine research teams will collaborate closely. Each of the 31 co-principal investigators is a member of at least one Aims team and one Crosscut Themes team.
In addition to Stanford and SLAC, the following research institutions across the United States and Canada form the consortium:
Army Research Laboratory • California State University, Long Beach
Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering
North Carolina State University • Oregon State University
San José State University • U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
UCLA • UC-Santa Barbara • UC-San Diego • University of Maryland
University of Texas at Austin • University of Waterloo
Contact us
Scientific community: Steve Eglash, Chief Operating Officer
Media: Mark Golden, Communications Director
Address
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305