The National Mission
Faced with world energy consumption projected to double in the next 50 years, the federal government has set national goals that require major improvements in energy storage science and technology. Learn more »
A Public / Private Partnership
To create new breakthroughs in energy storage technology, JCESR will forge a sustained collaboration among government, academic, and industrial researchers.  Learn more »
Science to Technology to Marketplace
JCESR aims to go beyond today’s best Li-ion systems to provide five times the energy storage at one-fifth the cost within five years.  Learn more »

Welcome to JCESR

JCESR is a major research partnership that integrates government, academic, and industrial researchers from many disciplines to overcome critical scientific and technical barriers and create new breakthrough energy storage technology.

Located just outside of Chicago at Argonne National Laboratory, our partners include national leaders in science and engineering from academia, industry, and national laboratories. Their combined expertise spans the full range of the technology-development pipeline from basic research to prototype development to product engineering to market delivery. JCESR will make rapid progress and meaningful advances by strengthening these links. More »