MO1: StoRIES eco-system includes more than 250 organizations from 30 countries worldwide:
• Partners (17), Linked Third Parties (LTPs 18), Trans National Access (TNA) & Virtual Access (VA providers (115), Extended Network (53), EERA JP ES members (41)
• Experts: AB (8), SP (45), WGs (76), TNA users (49), early-stage network (36), mentoring programme (12), summer schools (82), contributors of 2 books (41)
• 4 workshops (WSs) & 4 online events with more than 500 participants in total
• Almost 300 subscribers to the Newsletter
• 1.370 LinkedIn followers
MO2: Rules & procedures for TNA were developed and 5 calls were opened. The number of applications & the unit-weeks of access steadily increased by each call (13 in TNA1, 46 exp. in TNA2, 63 exp. in TNA3, 63 exp in TNA4 and 87 exp in TNA 5), which would correspond to a total of 283 unit-weeks.
MO3: An agnostic materials intelligence platform, meta-data framework, several AI/ML frameworks for materials selection & recommendation have been developed & offered in a high degree of adaptability. For the assessment of complex application scenarios, the methodological advancements have been developed, defining a complete framework for cross-domain & multi-model assessment of performance indicators at materials, device & energy system application level. For Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) at storage device level, suitable aggregation methods for dynamic & static performance indicators were defined.
MO4:
• Key ES Techs were identified to understand synergy potentials and to solve methodological issues that arise in cross-domain hybridisation. "Scale-up of Energy Materials" and "Benchmarking for HES" WSs, more that 70 participants each, were organized in Karlsruhe (Mar. 22).
• A precise and in-depth questionnaire on the topic of FAIR was developed enabling a detailed analysis of the level of FAIRness achieved by each laboratory from A & I.
• Different methodologies and tools to assess the technical & socio-economic performance of ES Techs were harmonised. Two WSs “FAIR & open data for environmental, techno-economic & socio-economic assessments” held online in October 2022 and "Establishing a Unified Framework for Assessing Sustainability to Unleash the Potential of HESS" held in Vienna (Dec. 23) with 44 participants, were organised.
MO5/SO5a: Two key documents were drafted:
• A Technology Roadmap which serves as a comprehensive guide for strategic and long-range planning for HES including the identification of 17 specific case studies addressing industrial, grid, off-grid, transport, and building applications.
• A SRIA which defines and prioritizes research areas that require deeper exploration to accelerate the deployment of HESS: i) System resiliency & long duration ES; ii) System integration of multi-vector ES & conversion; iii) Extending lifetime of energy system & generation equipment via hybridisation; iv) Digitalisation, energy management systems; and v) Regulatory framework for standardization of HES.
MO5/SO5b: Training activities include:
• Early-stage Researcher Network with 36 participants
• Mentoring Programme with 6 mentor-mentee pairs
• 2 Summer Schools with 51 participants in total
• Training Programme for Master Students with over 130 registrations globally
• 9 Online Courses for Workforce from A & I
• Online Platform offering open academic courses on ES.
MO6: Different activities were carried out to connect to intl. stakeholders:
• Strengthening contacts to NRCan (CA)
• Initiate contacts with US (DOE, NSF) at the 7th MI Ministerial conference in Pittsburgh (Sept. 22)
• Organization of an intl. series of WSs “Energy Materials for Innovation” together with EERA.
