Supergen Storage Network Plus 2019

能源储存(ES)作为整个英国和全球能源系统的一部分，通过提供灵活性，提高供应不确定性的可负担性、安全性和弹性，以及应对与气候变化相关的巨大挑战，发挥着关键作用。经过过去十年的投资，英国在ES研究和创新方面在国际上处于强大的地位。尽管英国的专业领域处于世界领先地位，但这些领域与人工智能、数据和社会科学等相互作用的学科之间几乎没有互动。这种碎片化限制了社区产生重大社会影响的能力，并威胁到提供卓越研究的连续性，因此错失了机会。因此，现在迫切需要专家系统社区更有效地联系、召集和沟通。拟议的SuperGen Storage Network Plus 2019项目(ES-Network+)通过汇集12所英国机构不同职业阶段的19名顶尖学者来回应这一需求，他们拥有互补的能源存储(ES)相关专业知识和必要的多学科平衡来交付拟议的计划。ES-Network+的目标是创建一个动态、前瞻性和可持续的平台，连接和服务整个ES价值链上来自不同背景的人，包括工业界、学术界和政策制定者。作为ES社区的协调中心，我们将与我们的利益相关者创建、交流和传播ES知识。我们将在ES中培养早期职业研究人员(ECR)，并为平等、多样性和包容性(EDI)建立雄心勃勃的、可衡量的目标。我们将补充现有的活动(例如，Faraday Institution、UKERC、Energy Systems Catapult、CREDS、其他SuperGen Hub)，以满足英国的需求，在全国和国际上产生影响。ES-Network+将召集和支持ES社区，通过技术突破交付社会影响，从UKRI ES产品组合中产生进一步的价值。它将是一个安全和包容的生态系统，供ES及相关领域的研究人员访问、创新、建立和发展他们的英国和国际网络。它与目前的SuperGen存储中心不同：我们拥有一个具有非电化学背景的PI，一个扩大的调查团队，在能源网络集成、机械和跨季节热ES、与数字知识的混合存储、冷藏、与ES集成的运输、ES材料测量和成像以及具有政策含义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价值观支持我们的所有工作。我们将开发一份指导ES相关决策的权威白皮书，概述ES社区，并就未来如何指导ES研究提供技术观点。该团队与可再生能源行业和更广泛的能源社区建立了非常良好的联系，并已获得57个支持组织，包括能源生产、输电、配电和网络运营、热能和电力专业聚合商、存储技术开发商和集成商、可再生能源相关制造商、可再生能源相关回收以及国内和国际的研究机构/中心/枢纽/网络/协会。支持组织还提供了大量额外资源，以确保成功交付ES-Network+。

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+.