This experience is designed to ease you into the rapidly-growing field of long-duration energy storage (LDES). You will explore how energy storage works, how LDES supports clean energy goals and how it relates to energy grid resilience for sustainable energy systems.

You will engage real-world cases to understand the key features, actors and factors in energy storage without prior technical knowledge in the field. We'll discuss the policy landscape and the economics of LDES to provide you an opportunity to explore the political and financial angles.

At the end of this learning experience, you will analyze your local or regional context and use your new knowledge to critically examine how LDES could play a role in advancing clean energy where you are. You will also make professional connections to this field and reflect on how your career or prior professional experience could position you to transition to this field.

Key benefits:

• Knowledge and skills necessary to analyze and discuss energy storage problems in multiple professional domains.
• A future-forward perspective on how LDES can play a role in reaching decarbonization and clean energy goals at local and global scales.
• A professional career strategy for applying your skills and experience to the future of energy storage.

What it includes:

• Case studies - You will engage with contextual examples of the affordances, successes and challenges faced in energy storage.
• Strategic planning - You will use your knowledge to evaluate and make critical decisions about how LDES could apply to your context.
• Practice activities - You will encounter real-world problems to practice using your knowledge to problem-solve.

Long-duration energy storage solutions open doors to scalable clean energy, and it needs informed professionals like you to drive the change.