Energy Storage Innovations Prize Round 2 Official Rules - Modification 1

The Energy Storage Innovations Prize Round 2 is a call for new, innovative, and promising energy storage solutions to address niche markets and to grow a community of innovators. The Prize places a focus on less conventional use cases (e.g., remote communities, extreme operating conditions) and innovative (i.e., less mature) energy storage technology solutions, across all duration scales, to advance the market landscape. The Energy Storage Innovations Prize Round 2 aims to gain insights on innovative, emerging, and next-generation energy storage solutions that address niche markets and inform the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) strategy on transformative storage technologies to accelerate grid modernization for all consumers, while achieving needed reliability, affordability, resilience, and energy security. This competition focuses only on innovative energy storage solutions for less conventional use cases. Conventional use cases are not of interest for this prize. See Prize Scope and Goals (Section 3.1) and Solutions of Interest (Section 3.6) for detailed descriptions and further explanation.