Energy Storage in Pennsylvania
Recognizing the many benefits that energy storage can provide Pennsylvanians, including increasing the resilience and reliability of critical facilities and infrastructure, helping to integrate renewable energy into the electrical grid, and decreasing costs to ratepayers, the Energy Programs Office retained Strategen Consulting, LLC to analyze the role that energy storage may play in the state’s future power system.
Pennsylvania Energy Storage Assessment: Status, Barriers and Opportunities, released in April 2021, surveys the current landscape of energy storage statewide, explores the potential applications and benefits of energy storage, identifies barriers to further deployment, and provides recommendations to enhance the market for energy storage in the state.
Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium
Energy storage has widespread potential application across the entire electricity value chain, which makes it a complex but important technology to enhance resiliency and reliability among our electricity grid, and maximize the benefits of the growing renewable energy sector in PA. The Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium will serve as an opportunity for engagement of key stakeholders on a wide range of topics that can lead to an advancement of storage capacity in PA.
The Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium will meet on a quarterly basis and meetings are open to all energy storage stakeholders.
Please fill out the registration form to receive an invitation to the meetings via Microsoft Teams, and to subscribe to information about the Energy Storage Consortium (including upcoming events). Please contact Tristyne Youngbluth, Energy Program Specialist at
tyoungblut@pa.gov with any questions.
Upcoming meeting:
The next Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium Meeting will be scheduled for May/June 2024.
Consortium Meeting #10: February 7, 2024
The most recent Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium meeting was held on February 7, 2024 via Teams video conference. The meeting explored nationwide targets for energy storage deployment and took a look at two nearby states with energy storage mandates. Speakers included: Todd Olinsky-Paul, Senior Project Director, Clean Energy Group / Clean Energy States Alliance; Thomas Ferguson, Energy Storage Programs Manager, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources; Michael Hornsby, Chief Project Development Officer, NJ Board of Public Utilities, Bureau of New Technology.
Consortium Meeting #9: November 1, 2023
The 9th Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium meeting was held on November 1, 2023 via Teams video conference. The focus of the meeting centered on building equity into energy storage projects, bringing energy resiliency to the neighborhood level and lessons learned from a battery storage project. Speakers included: Jennifer Yoshimura from Pacific NW Laboratory, Broderick Bagert from Together New Orleans, and Robert Raker from West River Electric Association.
Consortium Meeting #8: May 24, 2023
The eighth Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium meeting was held on May 24, 2023 via Teams video conference. The focus of the meeting centered on the implementation of energy storage within microgrids and the associated benefits and challenges in doing so. Information was provided by a member of Legal Council at Microgrid Resources Coalition and the Founder & President at NetZero Microgrid Solutions.
Consortium Meeting #7: March 22, 2023
The seventh Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium meeting was held on March 22, 2023 via Teams video conference. The focus of the meeting centered on grid interconnection and the associated challenges, barriers, and proposed solutions. Information was provided by a Researcher at Applied Economics Clinic and a Chief Regulatory Engineer at Interstate Renewable Energy Council.
Consortium Meeting #6: January 25, 2023
The sixth Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium meeting was held on January 25, 2023 via Teams video conference. The focus of the meeting was on energy storage project case studies and the associated opportunities and challenges experienced. Information was provided by the Demonstrations Lead at Sandia National Laboratories.
Consortium Meeting #5: November 2, 2022
The fifth Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium meeting was held on November 2, 2022 via Teams video conference. The focus of the meeting was on energy storage funding opportunities for Pennsylvania associated with the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Information was provided by representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) and the American Clean Power Association.
Consortium Meeting #4: May 17, 2022
The fourth Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium meeting was held on May 17, 2022 via Teams video conference. The meeting included a presentation of the role energy storage can play as a replacement strategy for existing fossil fuel peaker plants, and a panel discussion on Equity Considerations for Pennsylvania Energy Storage Policy.
Consortium Meeting #3: March 1, 2022
The third Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium meeting was held on March 1, 2022 via Teams video conference. The meeting included an update on opportunities for federal funding for energy storage provided by the DOE Office of Electricity, an overview of state policy levers for energy storage deployment provided by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and a panel discussion on developer perspectives on optimizing storage policies and programs in Pennsylvania.
Consortium Meeting #2: December 7, 2021
The second Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium meeting was held on December 7, 2021 via Teams video conference and built off the success of September’s kickoff meeting. The meeting included an overview the value proposition of energy storage followed by case studies and a panel discussion on the policy considerations, deployment, and economics of current storage initiatives in Pennsylvania. The panel featured speakers from the energy storage development sector, electric distribution companies, and the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission.
Kickoff Meeting: September 28, 2021
The September, 28 2021 Pennsylvania Energy Storage Consortium kickoff meeting was held via Teams video conference and attended by over 90 individual stakeholders representing more than 85 organizations. The meeting included a special presentation on key findings from the recently published Pennsylvania Energy Storage Assessment of opportunities in the state, purpose of the consortium as well as a robust and interactive stakeholder discussion on top priorities to advance energy storage deployment in Pennsylvania.