Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education: Energy Storage Project

在过去十年中，可再生能源一直是增长最快的新能源，预计到2020年将提供多达25%的全国电力(美国环境影响评估)。在电池成本自2012年以来下降了70%的推动下，随着存储技术与可再生能源的整合，全球储能市场也在经历着巨大的增长。欧洲一直处于这一趋势的前沿：2017年，德国一半的太阳能安装包括储能系统，为客户、公用事业和电网带来了广泛的成本节约和能源弹性优势。随着储能和插电式电动汽车的整合，这一趋势正在加速，德国主要制造商宣布在2016年推出新的电池储存产品。然而，在未来五年内，美国有望成为世界上最大的能源储存市场，年复合增长率为21%(IHS市场预测)。预计到2020年，一半以上的部署将是客户拥有的系统。为了支持美国在能源储存方面的创新，行业需要在这一技术领域拥有技能和熟悉的技术人员。为了满足这一需求，麦迪逊地区技术学院将准备一批新的社区大学教师和技术人员，以从事储能技术的工作。该项目将学习欧洲的最佳实践，并利用这些信息为社区学院的学生和教职员工开发经过行业验证的教学资源。这一成果有可能塑造和加强能源储存技术人员的教育工作，并支持美国作为能源储存行业的全球领导者发挥更大的作用。该项目的目标是支持将能源储存技术整合到现有的能源技术人员教育计划中。该项目将使用一种基于证据的国际学习模式，在这种模式下，社区学院的教职员工将收集全球知识和专业知识，以产生能源储存工作任务分析和行业验证的课程和教学材料。该项目将配备一个示范教学实验室，并开发整合储能、电动汽车和太阳能光伏技术的课程。教学实验室将作为大学生介绍新课程的平台。该设施还将用于为全国各地的社区大学教师提供专业发展研讨会，目标是加强全国的能源教育。在该项目中创建的资源将在网上提供给广大观众。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Renewable energy has been the fastest growing source of new energy over the past decade, and is expected to provide as much as 25% of the nation's electricity by the year 2020 (US EIA). Driven by battery costs that have declined 70% since 2012, the global energy storage market is also experiencing tremendous growth, as storage technology is integrated with renewable energy. Europe has been on the leading edge of this trend: in 2017, half of all German solar energy installations included energy storage systems, delivering a wide range of cost-saving and energy resilience benefits for customers, utilities, and the grid. The trend is being accelerated by the integration of energy storage and plug-in electric vehicles, with major German manufacturers announcing new battery storage products in 2016. However, in the next five years, the U.S. is expected to become the world's largest energy storage market, having a compound annual growth rate of 21% (IHS Market forecast). It is expected that, by 2020, more than half of the deployments will be customer-owned systems. To support US innovation in energy storage, industry needs technicians who have skills and familiarity in this technology area. To meet this need, Madison Area Technical College will prepare a new group of community college instructors and technicians to work with energy storage technologies. This project will study best practices from Europe, and use the information to develop industry-validated instructional resources for community college students and faculty. The results have the potential to shape and enhance energy storage technician education efforts, and to support the greater role of the United States as a global leader in the energy storage industry.The goal of this project will be to support the integration of energy storage technology into existing educational programs for energy technicians. The project will use an evidence-based international learning model, in which community college faculty will gather global knowledge and expertise to produce an energy storage job task analysis and industry-validated curriculum and instructional materials. The project will equip a model teaching laboratory and develop courses that integrate energy storage, electric vehicle, and solar photovoltaic technologies. The teaching laboratory will serve as a platform for introduction of new curriculum for college students. This facility will also be used to provide professional development workshops for community college faculty from across the country, with the goal of strengthening energy education across the nation. The resources created in the project will be made available online and accessible to a wide audience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.