Funding, Grants & Awards
U California Los Angeles Wins $1.62 Million To Build Energy Storage System
Engineers from the University of California Los Angeles
Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have won a $1.62 million
grant to build a hybrid energy storage system.
The team with work with
Southern California Edison, which will help operate the system on the Cal Poly Pomona
campus upon completion, to build a system to store "energy harvested from intermittently productive renewable sources such as solar panels and
wind farms, then releases that energy into the grid when demand is high," according to a news release.
Lead by Pirouz Kavehpour, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA, the team will build a system that uses both
compressed air and thermal energy storage technologies to enhance capacity and reduce costs.
"Our estimated cost of energy for this unit is about $100 per kilowatt hour, which is much lower than any battery system of which we are
aware," said Kavehpour, in a prepared statement.
The grant was awarded by the
California Energy Commission.
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Joshua Bolkan is contributing editor for Campus Technology, THE Journal and STEAM Universe. He can be reached at [email protected].
