The purpose of this study was to determine the stored energy of dual-phase (DP) steels after hot rolling, coiling and cold reduction using electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) analysis.Three methods for stored energy evaluation were examined and compared: the sub-grain boundary, image quality (IQ) method and kernel average misorientation (KAM) methods. The results demonstrated that the sub-grain method, in which stored energy was calculated as a function of subgrain boundary misorientations and total sub-grain boundary length, can provide more accurate stored energy values, since cold work was responsible for forming numerous dislocation structures such as shear bands, cells and cell walls. As expected, the steels with the combination of a low coiling temperature of 580ºC and 60% cold reduction had the highest stored energy values.