DOE's Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI) is intended to address critical gaps in data needs to evaluate the long-term performance of energy storage technologies and to accelerate the pace for technology development. The six lab ROVI team (ANL-INL-NLR-ORNL-PNNL-Sandia) is primarily focused on accelerating the time from lab to market for long duration energy storage (LDES) systems by employing data-driven tools to predict their operational lifetimes. ROVI will develop a suite of adaptive AI/ML modeling tools based on data from laboratory testing and model simulations that will be validated with data from field deployed systems supported by DOE's Office of Electricity (OE) and Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED).

Mission

Greatly reduce the time required for emerging energy storage technologies to go from lab to market.

There are many innovative energy storage technologies being developed today that are promising candidates to achieve important cost and performance targets, such as DOE’s Long Duration Storage Shot, and ultimately reach widespread commercial deployment needed to facilitate a reliable, clean, and affordable electricity system of the future. The focus of the Office of Electricity’s Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI) is to greatly reduce time required for emerging energy storage technologies to go from lab to market by developing new tools that will accelerate the testing and validation process needed to ensure commercial success. To develop these tools, ROVI will employ innovative data science methods such as artificial intelligence and machine learning that will leverage large sets of energy storage performance data at different scales to facilitate generating lifetime performance predictions for new technologies with minimal real-time testing required.

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