EPISTORE

  This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101017709.  

Title

Thin Film Reversible Solid Oxide Cells for Ultracompact Electrical Energy Storage

Concept

Advanced thin-film technology has allowed several technological innovations in electronics and lighting through excellent nanoscale phenomena performance in reliable products that involve ultra-low contents of critical raw materials (CRMs). The EU-funded EPISTORE project will develop pocket-sized kilowatt-range stacks based on thin-film reversible solid oxide cells (TF-rSOCs) to efficiently store renewable electricity for applications where the use of batteries is insufficient. The project will combine nanoscale advances and materials yet to be explored with pioneering TF-rSOCs to provide new ultra-compact and fast-response power-to-gas and power-to-power storage solutions with high performance and minor use of CRMs. TF-rSOCs will be integrated with scalable silicon technology as a potentially low-cost model of large-scale energy storage.

Participants

• Fundacio Institut De Recerca De L’energia De Catalunya, Spain (Coordinator)
• The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
• Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
• The University Court of the University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
• Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom
• Centre national de la recherché scientifique CNRS, France
• Johnson Matthey PLC, United Kingdom
• Solmates B.V., Netherlands
• SOLIDPower SA, Switzerland
• Hygear B.V., Netherlands