CHICAGO--The national nonprofit Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC) has been accepted as an affiliate member of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory.

JCESR, just renewed by the U.S. Department of Energy for another five years, created an affiliate program that brings together small and large businesses, nonprofits, universities and national laboratories to further promote public-private partnerships. The stakeholder organizations are involved in electrical energy storage, ranging from chemical and material manufacturers to battery system integrators and testers. As new technologies are developed and needs identified, affiliates have the opportunity to engage with the research to accelerate innovation.

Steve Christensen, executive director of the RBC, said this affiliation “will greatly enhance the promising work we have planned with Argonne National Laboratory on energy storage and batteries used today and being developed for tomorrow. We are very fortunate to be able to deepen our collaboration with the national energy labs and contribute to solutions for global energy needs in transportation and other sectors.”

Dr. George Crabtree, director of JCESR, said the affiliate program “is a great way for us to work together with industry and other stakeholders to identify opportunities for innovation and improvements in the battery lifecycle. The addition of the Responsible Battery Coalition, representing multiple stakeholders in the battery lifecycle, adds significant value to JCESR and our evolving energy innovation Hub.”

Responsible Battery Coalition is a coalition of companies, academics and organizations committed to the responsible management of the batteries of today and tomorrow. RBC was created in April 2017 to advance the responsible production, transport, sale, use, reuse, recycling and resource recovery of transportation, industrial and stationary batteries and other energy storage devices. Current members are Johnson Controls, Ford Motor Co., O’Reilly Auto Parts, LafargeHolcim, Canadian Energy, Walmart, Honda Motor Co., AutoZone, Club Car, Advance Auto Parts, FedEx Express, Renova Energy, Battery Solutions and TerraCycle. Website: https://www.responsiblebatterycoalition.org/

List of Argonne National Laboratory JCESR Affiliates: https://www.jcesr.org/partnerships/affiliates/

Current Affiliates

California

  • 4D Energetics Inc.
  • Ampaire
  • California Clean Energy Fund
  • Citrine Informatics
  • Electric Power Research Institute
  • Envia Systems
  • General Atomics
  • Imergy Power Systems
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Liox
  • MCV Energy, Inc.
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • PlugVolt
  • PolyPlus Battery Company

Colorado

  • Electrochemical Energy Laboratory (ECEL) – University of Colorado at Boulder
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • SolidPower Battery
  • Xerion Advanced Battery Corp.

Connecticut

  • Praxair, Inc.
  • Proton OnSite

Delaware

  • DuPont Central Research and Development
  • University of Delaware

Florida

  • NextEra Energy Resources

Georgia

  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Southern Company Services

Idaho

  • Idaho National Laboratory

Illinois

  • AllCell Technologies
  • Center for Electrical Energy Storage
  • Chicago Innovation Exchange
  • Chicago Transit Authority
  • City of Evanston
  • ComEd
  • Energy Foundry
  • Exelon Corporation
  • Gas Technology Institute
  • Glidepath Power
  • Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Materion
  • National Alliance for Advanced Technology Batteries (NAATBatt)
  • Navigant
  • Navitas Systems
  • New Mobility Lab
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Renewance Inc.
  • SiNode Systems
  • SoCore Energy
  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  • Town of Normal

Indiana

  • Battery Innovation Center
  • Cummins Inc.
  • Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy

Maryland

  • Lockheed Martin Advanced Energy Storage, LLC
  • Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage

Massachusetts

  • 24M Technologies, Inc.
  • Material Alchemy
  • Pellion Technologies
  • PowerHydrant
  • TIAX LLC
  • XL Hybrids

Michigan

  • Dow Corning
  • Energy Storage Safety Products International (ESSPI)
  • General Motors
  • Lakeshore Advantage
  • National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
  • NextEnergy
  • Sakti3
  • Spider9

Mississippi

  • Mississippi State University

Missouri

  • Ameren
  • Energizer
  • University of Missouri

Montana

  • ViZn Energy

New York

  • alpha-En Corporation
  • Besstech
  • Bettergy Corp.
  • Center for Electrocatalysis, Transport Phenomena, and Materials for Innovative Energy Storage
  • Corning Incorporated
  • Eastman Business Park
  • Energy Materials Center at Cornell
  • Eos Energy Storage
  • GE Global Research
  • Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage
  • Voltaiq

North Carolina

  • Albemarle

Ohio

  • Case Western Reserve University
  • Design Flux Technologies, LLC
  • Duracell
  • NASA Glenn Research Center
  • University of Akron

Pennsylvania

  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Concurrent Technologies Corporation
  • Element 3 Battery Ventures, LLC
  • Pennsylvania State University

South Carolina

  • Paraclete Energy

Tennessee

  • Tennessee Valley Authority

Texas

  • Sabre Industries
  • Understanding Charge Separation and Transfer at Interfaces in Energy Materials and Devices
  • University of Texas at Arlington

Utah

  • Ceramatec

Washington

  • BrightVolt
  • TRIDEC | Tri-Cities Washington Development Council

Wisconsin

  • B&W MEGTEC
  • Kohler Power Systems
  • Rayovac
  • Responsible Battery Coalition
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

Canada

  • Hydro-Québec

Germany

  • Bosch

Korea

  • LG Chem