R&D 100 Entry: QuESt

Sandia National Labs introduces QuESt, an open source software application suite for energy storage valuation. Basically, it helps users find answers to questions about the technical performance of an energy storage system.

QuESt incorporates the technical expertise and institutional knowledge developed over many years by the energy storage analytics team at Sandia. The software incorporates mathematical algorithms and models from studies conducted by the Sandia team. QuESt also has a suite of innovative features such as built-in support and acquisition tools for the most widely used online data resources and automated report generation to summarize analysis in a comprehensive document.

QuESt was developed out of an initiative to help reduce the barriers for the widespread adoption of energy storage. It empowers the public at large with the told to make informed decisions about investments in energy storage. By doing so, the way can be paved for potentially transformative technologies to enhance the energy sector and, consequently, the general population’s way of life.

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