As a Japanese contractor of the IEA (International Energy Agency), we participate in the international joint research and development on Energy Storage under the framework of the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme.
Current tasks
- Task41 Economics of Energy Storage – EcoEneSto
- Task42 System flexibility from Medium-Duration Energy Storage
- Task43 Standardized Use of Building Mass as Storage for Renewables and Grid Flexibility
- Task44 Hi CBest: Power-to-Heat and Heat integrated Carnot Batteries for Zero-Carbon (industrial) Heat & Power supply
- Task45 Accelerating the Uptake of Large Thermal Energy Storages
- Task46 APPESS: Application oriented energy storage selection
- Task47 Components for Thermal Energy Storage
- Task48 Thermal Energy Storage Materials
Recently completed tasks
- Task40 Compact Thermal Energy Storage-Materials within Components within Systems
- Task39 Large Thermal Energy Storages for District Heating
- Task38 Ground Source De-Icing and Snow Melting Systems for Infrastructure
- Task37 Smart Design and Control of Energy Storage Systems
- Task36 Carnot Batteries
- Task35 Flexible Sector Coupling
- Task34 Comfort & Climate Box
- Annex33 Material and Component Development for Thermal Energy Storage
- Task32 Modelling of Energy Storage for Simulation Optimization of Energy Systems
- Annex31 Energy storage with Net Zero Energy Buildings and Districts: Optimization and Automation
- Annex30 Thermal Energy Storage for Cost-Effective Energy Management & CO2 Mitigation
- Annex29 Compact Thermal Energy Storage
- Annex28 Distributed Energy Storage for the Integration of Renewable Energies
- Annex27 Quality Management in Design, Construction and Operation of Borehole Systems