Supergen Storage Network Plus 2019

作为整个英国和全球能源系统的一部分，能源存储（ES）通过提供灵活性，提高可负担性，安全性和抗供应不确定性的弹性，以及应对与气候变化相关的巨大挑战，发挥着关键作用。在UKRI过去十年的投资之后，英国在国际上的ES研究和创新方面处于强势地位。尽管英国的专业领域处于世界领先地位，但这些领域和相互作用的学科（如人工智能、数据和社会科学）之间的互动很少。这种分裂限制了该社区提供重大社会影响的能力，并威胁到提供卓越研究的连续性，从而失去了机会。因此，ES社区现在迫切需要更有效地联系、召集和沟通。拟议的超级储能网络+ 2019项目（ES-Network+）响应了这一需求，汇集了12个英国机构不同职业阶段的19位领先学者，具有互补的储能（ES）相关专业知识和必要的多学科平衡，以提供拟议的计划。ES- network +的目标是创建一个充满活力、前瞻性和可持续发展的平台，连接并服务于整个ES价值链中来自不同背景的人们，包括工业界、学术界和政策制定者。作为环保界的联络点，我们会与持份者创造、交流和传播环保知识。我们将培养社会科学领域的早期职业研究人员（ECR），并为平等、多样性和包容性（EDI）制定雄心勃勃的、可衡量的目标。我们将补充现有的活动（如法拉第研究所，UKERC，能源系统弹射器，CREDS，其他Supergen中心），以满足英国的需求，在国内和国际上产生影响。ES- network +将召集并支持ES社区通过技术突破提供社会影响，从UKRI的ES投资组合中产生进一步的价值。这将是一个安全和包容的生态系统，为研究人员在ES和相关领域访问，创新，建立和发展他们的英国和国际网络。它与目前的Supergen储能中心不同：我们有一个非电化学背景的PI，一个扩展的研究团队，在能源网络集成，机械和跨季节热ES，混合存储与数字知识，冷藏，运输与ES集成，ES材料测量和成像以及具有政策影响的社会科学方面具有互补的专业知识。早期职业研究人员将在ES-Network+中担任关键职位，我们将以EDI价值观支撑我们所有的工作。我们将制定一份权威白皮书，指导与ES相关的决策，概述ES社区，并从技术角度阐述如何引导ES研究向前发展。该团队与ES行业和更广泛的能源社区有着良好的联系，并拥有57个支持组织，包括能源生产，传输，分配和网络运营，热电专业聚合商，存储技术开发商和集成商；ES相关厂家，ES相关回收；以及国内和国际的研究机构/中心/枢纽/网络/协会。支持机构也提供了大量额外资源，以确保ES-Network+的成功实施。

Energy Storage (ES) has a key role to play as a part of whole UK and global energy systems, by providing flexibility, enhancing affordability, security and resilience against supply uncertainties, and addressing the huge challenges related to the climate change. Following UKRI investment over the last decade, the UK is in a strong position internationally in ES research and innovation. Although areas of UK expertise are world leading, there is little interaction between these areas and interplaying disciplines e.g. artificial intelligence, data and social sciences. This fragmentation limits the community's ability to deliver significant societal impact and threatens the continuity of delivering research excellence, missing opportunities as a result. Consequently, there is now an urgent need for the ES community to connect, convene and communicate more effectively. The proposed Supergen Storage Network Plus 2019 project (ES-Network+) responds to this need by bringing together 19 leading academics at different career stages across 12 UK institutions, with complementary energy storage (ES) related expertise and the necessary multidisciplinary balance to deliver the proposed programme. The aim of the ES-Network+ is to create a dynamic, forward-looking and sustainable platform, connecting and serving people from diverse backgrounds across the whole ES value chain including industry, academia and policymakers. As a focal point for the ES community, we will create, exchange and disseminate ES knowledge with our stakeholders. We will nurture early career researchers (ECR) in ES and establish ambitious, measurable goals for equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). We will complement existing activities (e.g. Faraday Institution, UKERC, Energy Systems Catapult, CREDS, other Supergen Hubs) to serve the UK's needs, delivering impact nationally and internationally.The ES-Network+ will convene and support the ES community to deliver societal impact through technological breakthroughs, generating further value from the UKRI ES portfolio. It will be a secure and inclusive eco-system for researchers in ES & related fields to access, innovate, build and grow their UK and international networks. It is distinctive from the current Supergen Storage Hub: We have a PI with non-electrochemical background, an expanded investigator team with complementary expertise in energy network integration, mechanical and inter-seasonal thermal ES, hybrid storage with digital knowledge, cold storage, transport with ES integration, ES materials measurement & imaging and social science with policy implications. Early career researchers will hold key positions within the ES-Network+ and we will underpin all of our work with EDI values. We will develop an authoritative whitepaper for steering ES related decision-making, giving an overview of the ES community and a technical view on how ES research should be steered going forward. The team is extremely well-connected to the ES industry and the wider energy community and has secured 57 supporting organisations, including energy production, transmission, distribution & network operation, specialist aggregators of heat & power, storage technology developers and integrators; ES related manufacturers, ES related recycling; and research institutes/centres/hubs/networks/associations both nationally and internationally. The supporting organisations also bring in a significant amount of extra resources to ensure a successful delivery of the ES-Network+.