Poonum Agrawal
Sentech/SRA International, Bethesda, MD, USA
Wednesday Poster Session: Characterization and Assessment of Novel Bulk Storage Technologies
Poonum Agrawal provides technical analysis, management, and strategic planning related to energy technology research and development (R&D), sustainability, and climate analysis. [More] She has over 12 years of experience in the energy and environment field, particularly on issues of data collection and analysis, microgrids R&D, electricity transmission, and market analysis. Her experience spans across the executive and legislative branches of government as well as the private sector. She has a Master's degree in Technology Policy from MIT and a dual Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and International Relations from Tufts University. [Less]

Jon Anderson
C&D Technologies Inc., Blue Bell, PA, USA
Session 2: Enabling Renewable Energy Transmission - Advanced Carbon Energy Storage System for Transmission Utilization Improvement
Jon Anderson is currently the Director of New Technology Development for C&D Technologies Inc. He and his group are responsible for research and development at C&D, including emerging technologies and systems development. [More] His current work focuses on the development of active materials and advanced processing methods for valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) batteries, energy storage systems for renewable energy applications, and lithium-ion batteries for stationary power applications. He has worked in the energy storage industry for over 12 years, holding various technical positions in the United States and Europe. Mr. Anderson's technical background is in Materials Science and Engineering and the early portion of his career was focused on alloys and active materials development for VRLA batteries for stationary and traction applications. [Less]

Travis M. Anderson
Advanced Power Sources Research and Development, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM, USA
Session 4: MetILs: A Family of Metal Ionic Liquids for Redox Flow Batteries
Travis M. Anderson (Ph.D., Emory University, 2002) is a staff member in Sandia National Laboratories' Advanced Power Sources Research and Development group. His research interests focus around the synthesis and characterization of redox-active coordination complexes, flow batteries, and thermal battery aging.

L.E.A. Berlouis
C-Tech Innovation Ltd., Chester, UK
Session 3: Substrates for the Positive Electrode Reaction in the Zinc-Cerium Redox Flow Battery
Dr. Len Berlouis is a Reader in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He obtained his Ph.D. from Southampton University (England, UK) in 1982 working on AC impedance characterization of flow-through porous electrodes. [More] He then worked as a research scientist at the Wolfson Centre for Electrochemical Science (Southampton) for 9 years on projects ranging from electropolymerisation, corrosion studies, sensors, semiconductor electrochemistry, and interfacial spectroelectrochemistry. He moved to the University of Strathclyde in 1991, and since then he has extended his work involving optical techniques (ellipsometry, electrolyte electroreflectance, and second harmonic generation ([SHG]) for characterizing solid/electrolyte interfaces. This led to a number of publications as well as presentations (orals and posters) at international conferences. In more recent years, the technique of SHG in particular was extensively used to examine the surfaces of epitaxial semiconductor single crystals and the effect of mismatch between the substrate and the epitaxial layer. The adsorption of small molecules/atoms at single crystal metal surfaces (e.g., platinum, gold) was also followed with these techniques as well as changes in surface symmetry and reconstruction as a function of applied potential. Here, the electroreflectance technique as well as surfaced enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) were employed to good effect. He has been an active researcher in redox flow battery systems for the last three years working in close collaboration with Plurion Ltd., Glenrothes, Scotland, as well as colleagues from the University of Southampton, England, and has presented this work at major international conferences.

He has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and has had active international collaborations with the Electrochemistry Groups at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Alicante (Spain), the Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire at the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon (France), the Solidstate Physics Laboratory, Delhi (India) and SRI International, Menlo Park, California. [Less]

Andrew Burke
University of California-Davis, Institute of Transportation Studies, Davis, CA, USA
Session 10: Ultracapacitor Technology for Utility Applications

Peter Coppin
Storage for Renewables, CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship, Canberra, ACT, AU
Session 10: Ultrabattery Storage Technology and Advanced Algorithms at the Megawatt Scale
Dr. Peter Coppin received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree in 1974 and his Ph.D. degree in micro-meteorology from Flinders University of South Australia in 1978. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Hannover, Germany from 1978 to 1980 in wind energy, he was appointed as a research scientist at CSIRO in 1980. [More] Mr. Coppin was Director of the CSIRO Wind Energy Research Unit until 2009 and is currently Leader of the Storage for Renewables Stream at the Energy Transformed Flagship. His research interests include boundary-layer meteorology, wind energy, and renewable energy storage.

He was Director of the CSIRO Wind Energy Research Unit until 2009 and is currently Leader of the Storage for Renewables Stream at the Energy Transformed Flagship. His research interests include boundary-layer meteorology, wind energy and renewable energy storage. [Less]

Mariesa Crow
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA
Session 6: A Power Electronic Conditioner Using Electrochemical Capacitors to Improve Wind Turbine Power Quality
Mariesa L. Crow is the F. Finley Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign. [More] Her area of professional interest is computational methods and power electronics applications to renewable energy systems. She is currently the Director of the Energy Research and Development Center at Missouri S&T. She is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Missouri and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. [Less]

Giovanni Damato
StrateGen Consulting, LLC, Berkeley, CA, USA
Session 10: Energy Storage -- A Cheaper, Faster, and Cleaner Alternative to Conventional Frequency Regulation
Giovanni Damato has led StrateGen's Value Proposition Practice in distributed energy storage since 2005. Storage technology providers, global solar integrators, leading real estate developers, and public utility commissions have sought out his expertise to make critical strategic decisions about distributed storage markets, including the integration of storage with renewable energy resources. [More] He is currently advising suppliers and developers as well as clean energy end users to develop the value proposition and strategic implications of photovoltaic, solar thermal, and advanced energy storage systems for a wide range of key stakeholders.

Mr. Damato brings practical and analytical skills to StrateGen from the construction industry. Before joining StrateGen, he founded a custom homebuilding business and is a licensed General Contractor in the State of California. Incorporating green building into his homebuilding business ultimately led Mr. Damato to the clean energy space and StrateGen. He has also worked for Granite Construction, a leading U.S. heavy civil transportation contractor, as a Field Engineer on the Las Vegas Monorail Project, where he was responsible for day-to-day construction activities and jobsite/public safety.

Mr. Damato holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He enjoys adventure traveling—including Mount Everest, Aconcagua, and Kilimanjaro. [Less]

Paul Denholm
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
Session 5: Thermal Energy Storage as an Enabling Technology for Renewable Energy
Paul Denholm is a Senior Energy Analyst in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. His research interests include examining the technical, economic, and environmental benefits and impacts of large-scale deployment of renewable electricity generation, including the role of enabling technologies such as energy storage, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and long-distance transmission. [More] His analysis focuses on modeling electric power systems using grid simulation tools with an emphasis on bulk storage technologies, including compressed air, pumped hydro, long-duration batteries and thermal storage. He holds a B.S. in physics from James Madison University, an M.S. in instrumentation physics from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. in environmental studies and energy analysis from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [Less]

James M. Eyer
Distributed Utility Associates, Inc., Oakland, CA, USA
Session 1: Evaluating Modular Distributed Electricity Resources for Utility Transmission and Distribution Upgrade Deferral and Life Extension
Chair, Session 11: Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
Jim Eyer is the Principal and Senior Analyst for E&I Consulting. For the last 15 years, he has also served as the Senior Analyst for Distributed Utility Associates. Mr. Eyer's 27-year career has focused on energy efficiency, renewables, and advanced energy technologies, concepts, benefits, and markets. [More] For the last 15 years, he has focused on energy storage with an emphasis on benefits and value propositions. He has authored or co-authored numerous reports and papers on these subjects for the U.S. Department of Energy, California and New York State energy agencies, utilities, and vendors. Notably, he is the lead author and principal investigator for the seminal report published by Sandia National Laboratories entitled Energy Storage for the Electricity Grid: Benefits and Market Potential Assessment Guide.

Before Distributed Utility Associates, Mr. Eyer held a range of positions with Pacific Gas and Electric Company related to advanced electric technology and concepts research and development, electric supply planning, and commercial energy efficiency services.

He holds an undergraduate degree in physics and management from Sonoma State University and a Master's degree in management, also from Sonoma State. [Less]

Frederik Geth
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Session 2: Grid-Supporting Battery Energy Storage Systems in the Low-Voltage Distribution Grid
Frederik Geth received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Leuven, Belgium, in 2009. Currently, he is working as a research assistant with the division ESAT-ELECTA. [More] His research interests include optimal storage integration in distribution grids, batteries for (hybrid) electrical vehicles, and mitigating the impact of the charging of (hybrid) electrical vehicles on the low-voltage distribution grid. [Less]

Hiroshi Hanafusa
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Smart Energy System Division, Moriguchi, Japan
Session 6: Sanyo's Smart Energy System with a 1.5-Megawatt Hour Lithium-Ion Battery and 1-Megawatt Photovoltaic Solar System
Hiroshi Hanafusa joined the SANYO Electric Central Institute in 1981. He contributed to the development of semiconductors such as system LSI for digital camcorders for 10 years and acquired his doctor's degree. [More] He acted as CCD general manager and various other administrative innovation project leaders. He was the project leader of new energy business development from April 2009, led the development of the SANYO Smart Energy System, and founded the Energy Solution Business Division, which is the previous body of the Smart Energy System Division of SANYO today. [Less]

Tetsuya Hatta
NGK Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, Japan
Session 2: Recent Applications of Sodium-Sulfur (NAS) Battery System in the United States and In Japan
Tetsusya Hatta is Manager of the Engineering Department, NAS Battery Division, NGK Insulators, Ltd. His specialty is electric engineering. He has worked in the research and development and engineering divisions. [More] Since 2008, he has been involved in engineering and system development of NAS battery systems to be installed in the United States and other countries. [Less]

Jacquelynne Hernández
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA
Monday Poster Session: Recent U.S. Policy and Legal Implications for Energy Storage vis-à-vis RPS Mandates
Jacquelynne Hernandez is a member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), in the Energy Systems Analysis group. Her education includes a BSEET (focus area: Power Electronics) from DeVry Institute of Technology in Decatur, Georgia; a BSEE from University of New Mexico; and an MSEE from New Mexico State University in Power Engineering, part of the Electric Utilities Management Program. [More] Ms. Hernandez's work at SNL varies in topic, scope, and responsibility. It includes work in the Joint Test Assembly division that required use of her background in digital signal processing, telemetry designs, and assistance in running a ground station. Other assignments were as the Environment, Safety, and Health Coordinator for work in Papua, New Guinea's, meteorological station and work in Alaska for the Arctic Radiation Measurement in Barrow, on the North Slope. She was part of the mission-level planning and submission configuration of software and hardware, and a radiation subject matter expert for single-event upset calculations for space vehicles in Satellite and Monitoring planning. Recent Power Engineering work involves Hawaii for Renewable Energy Grid Integration Systems (REGIS) and similar clean energy initiatives that require interpretation of state-specific energy policy, and the Middle East/South Asia International Programs that assist with exploring renewable energy technology options and policies in Non-Proliferation discussions. Energy policy assignments include work with the oil and gas industry for the transportation sector and SNL's national energy-water nexus roadmap. [Less]

Steven Hickey
RedFlow Limited, Brisbane, Queensland, AU
Session 9: Systems Integration Strategies for the 10-kWh Redflow Zinc Bromine Battery Module
Steven Hickey received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at University of Queensland in 1982. After a brief stint as UQ Energy Management Engineer, he moved to the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) for the mining research program, working on seismic and blast vibration instrumentation. [More] This experience led in 1988 to his founding (with colleagues) Blastronics Pty. Ltd., which gained an international reputation as a leading consulting and instrumentation business.

Joining RedFlow in mid-2008 as Test Engineer, he is amongst the most senior employees. Recently, he has been responsible for systems design, and for mentoring junior engineers. He currently manages the company’s long-term ZBM test program. [Less]

Jeff Hires
GS Battery (USA) Inc., Roswell, GA, USA
Monday Poster Session: Applying Renewable Storage to the Commercial Environment
Mr. Hires joined GS Battery in 2010 and currently serves as Engineering Manager. Mr. Hires graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2004. Mr. Hires is a registered professional engineer (electrical) with over 9 years experience. [More] Before coming to the GS Battery, he worked as a design engineer for a MEP consulting firm, where he worked on the electrical power and telecommunication designs of industrial, healthcare, institutional, and commercial buildings. In the last few years as a consulting engineer, he focused on the design of the many renewable energy projects (wind, photovoltaic, with and without battery storage). Since joining GS Battery, he continues to help design and implement many PV-plus and storage projects as well as storage-only projects around the country, as well as assisting our Japanese engineering team in the development and support of new and existing products. [Less]

Kent Holst
Iowa Stored Energy Park (ISEP), Traer, IA, USA
Session 11: Iowa Stored Energy Park "Lessons From Iowa"
Kent Holst is the Development Director for the Iowa Stored Energy Park (ISEP). He has served in this position since the formation of the Iowa Stored Energy Plant Agency (ISEPA) in 2005. Before then he served on the ISEP Committee of the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities. [More] Mr. Holst was the General Manager of Traer, Iowa, Municipal Utilities (TMU) for 22 years until his retirement in 2004. Before joining TMU, he was a John Deere farm equipment dealer. He has a B.S. degree in Agricultural Business from Iowa State University. [Less]

J. Hornberger
Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc., Fayetteville, AR, USA
Session 9: Commercialization of Silicon Carbide Power Modules for High-Performance Energy Applications

Craig R. Horne
EnerVault Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Session 8: Demonstration of Energy Storage Using A Breakthrough Redox Flow Battery Technology

Sam Jaffe
IDC Energy Insights, Boulder, CO, USA
Tuesday Poster Session: Economic and Cost Modeling of the Repurposing Electrical Vehicle Batteries for Stationary Storage Applications
Sam Jaffe is responsible for researching, writing, and editing qualitative and quantitative reports and presentations evaluating a range of distributed energy topics. His recent research includes reports on the utility industry's response to the rollout of electric vehicles, an analysis of the concept of the virtual power plant, and an overview of the energy storage sector. [More] In addition to primary research authorship, he provides custom consulting, advisory, and research services for clients, most of whom are executives in the utility industry and vendors that sell into that industry. He also gives public talks at industry events and is frequently quoted in the media.

Before joining IDC Energy Insights, Mr. Jaffe ran his own consulting company, Panea Energy, which specialized in providing business development advice and consultation in the energy storage and renewable energy fields. Before Panea Energy, Mr. Jaffe was a magazine journalist, writing for such publications as Wired, Scientific American, The Scientist, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of two books, Jewish Wisdom for Business Success (2008) and The New Korea (2010), both published by Amacom, the publishing arm of the American Management Association. He received a B.A. degree from Wake Forest University and an M.A. degree from New York University. [Less]

Robert Kaplar
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Session 6: Degradation Mechanisms and Characterization Techniques in Silicon Carbide MOSFETs at High-Temperature Operation
Robert Kaplar received a B.S. degree in Physics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1994), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1998 and 2002). From 2002 to 2005 he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, New Mexico. [More] Since 2005 he has been a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at SNL. His current work focuses on semiconductor device characterization, reliability, and physics for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) and power device applications. [Less]

Nikhil Koratkar
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Tuesday Poster Session: Silicon Nano-Scoop Anodes for High-Power Li-Ion Batteries

Olga Lavrova
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Session 7: Modeling of PV Plus Storage for Public Service Company of New Mexico's Prosperity Energy Storage Project
Olga Lavrova (SM 2000, M 2011) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. She received her B.Sc. degree in Physics and M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the St. Petersburg State Electrical Engineering University, and her Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2001. [More] She joined the University of New Mexico in 2007 as a Research Professor, and is now Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Her current work and areas of interest include photovoltaics and nano-scale semiconductor structures for photovoltaic applications, smart grids, and emerging energy generation, distribution, and storage technologies. Her employment experience includes postdoctorate research at UCSB, as well as working in the areas of optoelectronic devices at two startup companies and a major corporation (Emcore Corporation). [Less]

Matthew Lazarewicz
Beacon Power Corp., Tyngsboro, MA, USA
Session 9: Managing the State of Charge of Energy Storage Systems Used for Frequency Regulation
Mr. Lazarewicz has been with Beacon Power Corp. for 12 years, where he serves as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer. Before joining Beacon Power, Mr. Lazarewicz worked for 25 years for General Electric in various engineering and managerial capacities in Power Systems and Aircraft Engines. [More] He is a Mechanical Engineer and holds B.S., M.S., and MBA degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in Massachusetts. He serves as Vice-Chairman of the Electricity Storage Association, Chairman of the Energy Storage Working Group of the Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Sub-Committee, and a member the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power Engineering Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE), and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association's (NEMA's) Energy Storage Council. [Less]

Chang-Hui Lee
RIST, Pohang, Korea
Tuesday Poster Session: Experimental Approach for Thermal Modeling of Sodium-Sulfur Battery Based on Isothermal Chamber Test
Dr. Lee is a senior researcher of RIST, South Korea. She is now involved in the assessment and analysis department considering reliability issues. She studied at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) for her Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees. [More] Before she joined RIST, she worked for Samsung Electronics as a senior engineer in the home appliance division for more than five years. Her research interests mainly focus on product and technology development, considering the reliability concerns in the advanced energy storage system. [Less]

Liyu Li
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Session 8: A New Fe/V Redox Flow Battery
Dr. Liyu Li has broad experience in the fields of clean coal and biomass utilization, carbon dioxide capture, and redox flow batteries for grid-level electricity storage. He also has broad experience in developing inorganic absorbents, hydrogen storage materials, heterogeneous catalysts, inorganic ion exchangers, and glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms. [More] He has published 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has given more than 100 presentations at national and international scientific conferences in these areas. He also holds five U.S. patents, three foreign patents, and has eight U.S. patent applications on file. Dr. Li is a project manager and lead principal investigator at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. At this position, he has both research management and technical supervisory responsibilities for the execution of governmental and industrial projects. Dr. Li joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 1998. [Less]

Michelle Lim
Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
Monday Poster Session: Use of Storage to Mitigate Frequency Variations in a Load Frequency Control Model
Michelle Lim received a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Wichita State University in 2006 and 2009, respectively. She has worked on the economic feasibility of integrating wind energy in the state of Kansas with a Department of Energy grant in 2009. [More] She has also worked at the National Institute for Aviation Research and Bombardier-Learjet Inc. in Wichita, Kansas. Currently, she is an electrical engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder. [Less]

Michael Manwaring
HDR Engineering, Charlotte, NC, USA
Session 10: Why Aren't We Building New, Grid-Scale Energy Storage Projects?
Michael Manwaring has more than 15 years of experience in the renewable energy field, primarily in the hydropower and pumped storage arena. He has planned, developed, and managed a variety of hydropower and water resources projects, from 50 megawatts (MW) to 1,300 MW. [More] Mr. Manwaring currently serves as Chair of the National Hydropower Association's Pumped Storage Development Council, an organization representing over 60 member companies from the utility, merchant operators, equipment suppliers, and the consultant industry. He also previously served as Chair of the Northwest Hydroelectric Association Small & Low Impact Hydro Committee. Mr. Manwaring has presented on behalf of the hydropower and bulk energy storage industries to the U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, various energy commissions, and other regulatory entities. [Less]

Anne Margolis
Clean Energy States Alliance, Montpelier, VT, USA
Monday Poster Session: The State/Federal Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership Project
Anne Margolis is a Project Director for the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), where she focuses primarily on member services as well as outreach and communication efforts to members and external stakeholders, including creation of print and web content. [More] She directs the Energy Storage and Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP) and also co-directs the CESA Solar and the Wind Siting & Acceptance Projects, as well as managing CESA's State Leadership in Clean Energy (SLICE) awards program. Before joining CESA, Ms. Margolis was the Director of the Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund. She holds a B.A. degree in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College. [Less]

Roy McCann
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Monday Poster Session: A Battery Storage System for Distributed Demand Response in Rural Environments
Dr. Roy McCann received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991. After completing the MSEE degree, he was employed by General Motors Corporation in Dayton, Ohio, working towards the development of advanced electronically controlled engine, braking, and steering systems. He began a Ph.D. program at the University of Dayton in 1995 related to electric power systems research. [More] With funding by Delphi Corporation and the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute, he was awarded the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Dayton. During this time, Dr. McCann was the engineering supervisor for the Electrical Systems Group at Delphi-Saginaw Steering, where the first large-scale fully electric and electronically controlled power steering system was designed and produced for the North American passenger vehicle market. Dr. McCann has received 19 U.S. patents related to his work in automotive electronic systems and authored numerous papers for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the IEEE. In August 2003, Dr. McCann accepted an appointment as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas–Fayetteville. In August 2009, Dr. McCann was promoted to the rank of Professor. He teaches and conducts research in control systems with particular emphasis on energy conversion related applications. He is the director of the Control Systems laboratory at the University of Arkansas and also an associate director for the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT), also located at the University of Arkansas. [Less]

Gabriel Miller
Hudson Clean Energy Partners, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
Session 1: The Impacts of Regulation, Policy, and Advanced Technologies, and Market Dynamics on the Deployment of Energy Storage Processes
Gabriel Miller, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Hudson, is responsible for technical analysis of clean technologies at Hudson. Dr. Miller is a retired Professor of Chemistry at New York University (NYU) and previously was a Professor of Engineering as well as a Professor of Energy and Atmospheric Science at NYU. [More] Dr. Miller has conducted numerous studies at NYU and in a number of energy and environmental fields as a consultant. In the 1980s, he headed research programs in a number of renewable energy fields that have recently regained importance.

His work addressed a variety of combustion systems, including studies of human exposure to toxic emissions from municipal solid waste facilities, and analyses of power plant systems for compliance with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Dr. Miller has led projects in boiler design, gas and oil-fired cogeneration, hydrolysis of waste to glucose, municipal solid waste and sludge incineration, biofuel combustion, coal and wood waste fired fluidized bed combustion, wind energy, hydropower, power transmission by microwaves, wastewater system requirements, and air and odor impacts for health risk analyses. He also managed production of engineering feasibility studies, as part of due diligence for bond issues, as well as compliance with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Dr. Miller serves as Executive Director of the Society for Energy and Environmental Research (SEER), where he oversees studies in bio-fuel production. He earned a B.S. degree, M.S. degree and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from NYU. [Less]

June Kee Min
Pusan National University, Busan, Korea
Session 7: Numerical Analysis on the Temperature Distribution in the Molten Sodium-Sulfur Battery Module
Dr. Min is a research professor at Rolls-Royce University Technology Center in Thermal Management at Pusan National University, South Korea. He studied at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) for his B.S. degree and at the Seoul National University (SNU) for his Ph.D. and M.S. degree. [More] Before he joined Pusan National University, he worked for the LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics as a thermo-fluid engineer for more than 10 years. His research interests mainly include compressed air energy (CAE)-based heat transfer problems for advanced thermal management systems. [Less]

Michael Nakhamkin
Energy Storage and Power, LLC, Bridgewater, NJ, USA
Session 9: Second-Generation Compressed Air Energy Storage Technology Meeting Renewable Energy/Smart Grid Requirements
Dr. Nakhamkin is the P.E. and Chief Technology Officer of Energy Storage and Power, LLC.

Aparna Narang
Pacific Gas & Electric Company, San Francisco, CA, USA
Wednesday Poster Session: PG&E Compressed Air Energy Storage in California
Aparna Narang has over nine years of experience in the energy industry. She is currently the Program Manager for the $50M Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) initiative at the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E). [More] Aparna also led PG&E's wind energy development program, growing that portfolio to over 400 MW of early stage projects. Before joining PG&E, she managed a project development portfolio of over 3,200 MW for Clipper Windpower, and managed construction planning activities for over 300 MW of wind projects at Horizon Wind Energy. She is also a graduate of General Electric's Renewable Energy Leadership Program. Aparna has a Bachelor's of Science in Civil Engineering and Environmental Studies from Tufts University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [Less]

Jeremy Neubauer
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
Tuesday Poster Session: Preliminary Findings of National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Battery Secondary-Use Project
Dr. Jeremy Neubauer is a Senior Engineer with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Center for Transportation Technologies and Systems. His primary responsibility lies in researching the reuse of retired automotive traction batteries to ultimately reduce the cost and accelerate the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles. [More] Before coming to NREL, Dr. Neubauer was Chief Engineer at ABSL Space Products, a leading manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for the space industry. There he developed energy storage solutions for long-duration, high-reliability, and manned space missions. Dr. Neubauer has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. [Less]

Benjamin L. Norris
Clean Power Research, Napa, CA, USA
Session 2: Determining Storage Reserves for Regulating Solar Variability on the Electric Power Grid
Ben Norris has managed technical and economic assessments of grid-connected renewable and storage technologies in the electric power industry for 26 years. His experience covers photovoltaics, solar thermal electric, flywheels, advanced batteries, and fuel cells. [More] He has developed methods for dynamically managing transmission line thermal ratings and for effectively using infrared imaging in transmission and distribution maintenance. Mr. Norris currently manages the Consulting Group at Clean Power Research in Napa, California. Clients include research organizations, financial institutions, utilities, and manufacturers in the United States and abroad. He studied Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and served on the Board of Directors for the Electricity Storage Association for 8 years. [Less]

Michael Oster
Eos Energy Storage, Easton, PA, USA
Session 5: Zinc/Air - A Low-Cost, Long-Life, and Safe Battery Technology
Michael Oster is CEO of Eos Energy Storage (formerly Grid Storage Technologies). Mr. Oster co-founded Eos in 2007 to develop and commercialize a utility-scale Zinc/Air battery system, which is a low-cost, energy-dense and safe battery technology with 6+ hours of storage. [More] Mr. Oster previously was one of the larger developers of solar power assets in the northeastern United States together with a major European utility. Mr. Oster began his career in strategy and business planning for IBM and later joined the international management consulting firm of A. T. Kearney. In the last decade, Mr. Oster formed and capitalized an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. He was one of the original partners to launch the global energy technology firm Oilspace/Aspect Enterprise, where he populated the board and investor group with OPEC oil ministers, U.S. cabinet members, and other energy industry leaders. Earlier, Mr. Oster moved to Russia as privatization started, built a real estate investment and development company, and later established the first institutional real estate investment fund in Russia with the AT&T pension fund and Nomura Bank. Mr. Oster received his MBA in finance from New York University and his B.A. in economics from Brandeis University. [Less]

Anthony Price
Swanbarton, Ltd., Malmesbury, United Kingdom
Chair, Session 6: Power Electronics
Session 1: Don't Forget That: Past, Present, and Future Philosophy for Energy Storage
Anthony Price established Swanbarton as a consultancy business specializing in electrical energy storage in 2003 and has since consulted for battery and energy storage developers, users of storage, utilities, and government departments, in the United Kingdom (UK) and overseas. [More] He is interested in the commercial aspects of all types of energy storage, market acceptability, and commercial development and has had many papers and journal articles published on these subjects. He is a contributor to Escovale’s management report on flow batteries and has written a number of published papers and journal articles, particularly on electricity storage. He served as a director of the European Space Agency (ESA) for seven years and has organized a number of meetings for the ESA in Europe, and is now the Director of the Electricity Storage Network, the industry body for electricity storage in the UK. In 2010, he initiated the International Flow Battery Forum, a conference series that brings together researchers, developers, and users of flow batteries. [Less]

Brad Roberts
S & C Electric, Franklin, WI, USA
Session 4: Applying a Variety of Battery Chemistries for Energy Storage
Bradford P. (Brad) Roberts is the Power Quality Systems Director for the Power Quality Products Division of S&C Electric Company, which specializes in low- and medium-voltage power protection systems. [More]
Mr. Roberts has over 35 years experience in the design and operation of critical power systems, ranging from single-phase uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems to medium-voltage applications. He began his engineering work as a systems reliability engineer in the Apollo Lunar Module Program at Cape Kennedy. He held senior management positions in two of the major UPS manufacturers during his career. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has published over 40 technical papers and journal articles on critical power system design and energy storage technology.

Mr. Roberts is a registered professional engineer and has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida. He is past chairman of the IEEE Power Engineering Society’s Emerging Technologies Committee and Executive Director of the Electricity Storage Association (ESA) and past chairman of the board. He has been a member of the ESA Board for 10 years. Mr. Roberts is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy Electricity Advisory Committee and Chairman of the Energy Storage Subcommittee.

Mr. Roberts is the 2004 recipient of the John Mungenast International Power Quality Award. [Less]

Edward P.L. Roberts
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Session 3: Techno-Economic Modeling of a Utility Scale Redox Flow Battery System
Dr. Roberts is a Reader at the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester. He is an electrochemical engineer with 20 years of research experience on a wide range of technologies for energy and environmental applications. [More] He has published more than 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and holds eight patents and patent applications. His research interests have covered a wide range of topics, including nanomaterials/electrocatalysis, electro-kinetic treatment of contaminated land, electrosynthesis, water and waste treatment, metal recovery, fuel cells, and redox flow batteries. Dr. Roberts is a co-founder and Research Director of Arvia Technology Ltd., a successful University spin-out company that is commercializing a waste and water treatment technology. His work has been recognized through a number of awards including the European Academic Enterprise (ACES) Fast Start-up award (2009), the IET Innovation Award for Sustainability (2009), and the IChemE Water Innovation Award (2008). Dr. Roberts is a Fellow of the IChemE, a committee member and former chair of the SCI Electrochemical Technology Group, and a member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers working party on electrochemical engineering. [Less]

Robert F. Savinell
Case Western Reserve Univ.
Wednesday Poster Session: Simulation and Optimization of a Flow Battery in an Area Regulation Application
Robert F. Savinell is the George S. Dively Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He has been engaged in electrochemical engineering research and development for over 35 years with a focus on the understanding of fundamentals and mechanisms of electrochemical systems and devices, and their design, development, and optimization. [More] Dr. Savinell has over 100 publications and seven patents in the electrochemical field. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, worked for the Diamond Shamrock Corporation, and taught at the University of Akron before joining CWRU in 1986. He was appointed Dean of the Case School of Engineering in 2001. In 2007 he took a one-year sabbatical at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Visiting Professor, then returned to the CWRU faculty to pursue full time his teaching and research interests. He is a former Director of the Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences, a former associate editor of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, and a former North American editor of the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. He is an elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. [Less]

Philip J. Scalzo
EMB Energy, Inc., Edmond, OK, USA
Session 7: Widespread Deployment of Electric Storage in the Industrial and Manufacturing Sectors

Robert B. Schainker
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Session 11: New York State Electric and Gas American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage Demonstration Plant - 2011 Status
Dr. Robert Schainker is Senior Technical Executive in the Electric Power Research Institute Power Delivery and Utilization Sector. His research activities cover energy storage, generation, and transmission technologies with special focus on compressed air energy storage, battery energy storage, strategic planning, electric grid dynamic stability, transmission substations, high-voltage power flow controllers, transformers, and power quality. [More] Dr. Schainker has given expert testimony to the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the California Public Utility Commission on strategic planning and a wide variety of electric utility technologies to improve the efficiency and "smartness" of the U.S. grid. Dr. Schainker holds three patents and has written chapters in two encyclopedias on electric grid and energy storage technologies. Dr. Schainker holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, all from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. [Less]

Martha Schreiber
Cellstrom GmbH, IZNÖ-Süd Wr. Neudorf, Austria
Session 8: Lifetime of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries
Martha Schreiber is co-founder and managing director of Cellstrom. She has over 25 years of experience in battery research and development, all dedicated to the design and implementation of electrochemical storage systems into mobile and stationary applications. [More] She gained expertise in fundamental research at Stanford University and industrial experience at the Daimler Benz Company. Ms. Schreiber received a Diplom in Chemistry and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and a PhD from the Technical University, Delft, Netherlands. [Less]

Matthew Senesky
National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Session 6: Battery Module Balancing with a Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter
Matthew Senesky received A.B. and B.E. degrees from Dartmouth College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. His academic research included topics in flywheel energy storage and micro-scale power generation. [More] Since graduating in 2005, he has held positions at Artificial Muscle and Tesla Motors. In his current position at National Semiconductor, he performs research and development in power electronics for renewable energy, energy storage, and electric vehicle applications. [Less]

Joseph H. Simmons
Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE), University of Arizona, 4715 Ft. Lowell Road, Tucson, AZ, USA
Session 11: Small-Scale Scalable Compressed Air Energy Storage System with Thermal Management

Ranbir Singh
GeneSiC Semiconductor, Dulles, Virginia, USA
Session 6: Ultra-High-Voltage Silicon-Carbide (SiC) Thyristors - Next-Generation Power Electronics Building Blocks
Dr. Ranbir Singh founded GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc. in 2004. He has developed critical understanding and published on a wide range of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices including PiN, JBS and Schottky diodes, metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), thyristors, and field controlled thyristors. [More] He has co-authored over 110 publications in various refereed journals and conference proceedings and is an inventor on 26 issued U.S. patents. He conducted research on SiC power devices first at Cree Inc., and then at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD. He received the B. Tech (Electrical Engineering) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from North Carolina State University (NCSU) under the tutelage of power device pioneer Prof. B. Jayant Baliga. [Less]

Robert C.T. Slade
Chemical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
Session 3: Temperature Dependence of Key Performance Indicators for Aqueous Electrochemical Capacitors Containing Nanostructured Birnessite Manganese Dioxide
Bob Slade is Professor of Energy Chemistry at the University of Surrey (25 miles from London, UK) and leads a team of 20+ researchers in sustainable electrochemical generation and storage of electrical energy. He trained at the University of Oxford and has previously held posts in the UK at the Universities of York, Oxford, and Exeter. [More] Current programs include pioneering work in alkaline membrane fuel cells, leadership of the UK consortium on biological fuel cells, strategic development of supercapacitors utilizing sustainable materials exhibiting pseudocapacitance, and a program in materials development and testing for redox flow batteries. He is the UK representative on the EuCheMS (European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences) working party on energy. [Less]

Samir Succar
Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY, USA
Wednesday Poster Session: Compressed Air Energy Storage and Geographic Aggregation: Mutually Reinforcing Strategies for Integrating Wind Power
Samir Succar is part of the National Resources Defense Council's (NRDC's) Center for Market Innovation based in New York. Mr. Succar's work focuses on the integration of renewable energy and the role of transmission and distribution infrastructure upgrades, demand resources, energy storage, and other enabling technologies. [More] Before joining NRDC, he was a member of the research staff of the Energy Systems Analysis group at the Princeton Environmental Institute of Princeton University, where his research focused on integration issues associated with utility-scale renewable energy and on enabling technologies for intermittent generation. A key focus of this work is the implementation of energy storage as a strategy for enhancing transmission infrastructure utilization and mitigating the intermittency of renewable energy with particular attention to compressed air energy storage and other bulk storage technologies. Previously, Mr. Succar worked at the Princeton Macroelectronics Group developing fabrication methods for solution processed organic thin film transistors and at Schlumberger ATE developing charged particle optics for voltage contrast defect detection systems. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. [Less]

Byron Washom
University of California San Diego, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, La Jolla, CA, USA
Session 7: Optimization Routine for Energy Storage Dispatch Scheduling in Grid-Connected, Combined Photovoltaic-Storage Systems
Chair, Session 8: Emerging EES Technologies
Byron Washom is the University of California at San Diego's (UCSD's) new Director of Strategic Energy Initiatives and is responsible for energy management policy to achieve the campus' goals for quantum improvements in energy management and greenhouse gas reductions. [More] Before UCSD, Mr. Washom was the CEO for 20 years of a due diligence firm that specialized in CleanTech, and he served as Senior International Advisor to the World Bank and the Department of Energy. He is a four-time Rockefeller Foundation Grantee and a former Heinz Endowment Grantee for early commercialization of CleanTech into developing countries. Mr. Washom was also Founder and President of Advanco Corporation, which in 1984 set the long-standing world records for solar electric conversion efficiency at 29.4% and subsequently achieved an IR100 Award. He was the 2008 Recipient of UCSD's Citizen of the Year Award for Sustainability, and he was a Visiting Faculty Member at the Rady School of Management while teaching the graduate-level course, The Business of Renewable Energy. Fast Company magazine named him to their June 2010 cover story, "100 Most Creative Persons in Business, 2010." [Less]

J. F. Whitacre
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Aquion Energy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Session 5: The Aqueous Electrolyte Sodium Ion Battery: A Low-Cost Solution From Aquion Energy
Dr. J.F. Whitacre received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999. He held various positions at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before taking his current Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2007. [More] There he develops functional materials systems and performs economic/environmental impact assessment for energy technologies. His early work at CMU resulted in the conception of a novel scalable energy storage device. In 2008 he founded Aquion Energy, a company that has grown to over 60 employees. He is currently on leave from CMU to serve as full-time Chief Technology Officer for Aquion as it scales a pilot manufacturing plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Professor Whitacre has over 50 peer-reviewed papers and patents. [Less]

Dr. R.G.A. Wills
Research Institute for Industry (RIfI), University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Session 3: The Development of Flow Batteries from Proof of Concept to Pilot Scale
Dr Richard Wills is a senior research fellow with the Research Institute for Industry (RIfI) at the University of Southampton, UK. His research is focused on energy conversion technologies, in particular redox flow batteries, fuel cells, and electrode materials. [More] He obtained a Ph.D. in Electrochemistry in 2004 working on a novel lead-acid flow battery. He then worked as a consulting engineer on a range of chemical, electrochemical, and energy storage projects until 2007. Between 2007 and 2008 he worked for Atraverda as a battery specialist developing ceramic and composite electrode materials before returning to RIfI in 2008 to further research the areas of batteries and electrochemical devices. He received the Dave Rice award in 2007 for research on lead-acid batteries. [Less]

Chun-Hsing Wu
Green Energy and Environmental Research Laboratories (GEL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Tuesday Poster Session: Effects of Operating Parameters on the Single-Cell Performance of the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery for Energy Storage
Dr. Chun-Hsin Wu is a researcher of the Green Energy and Environmental Lab (GEL) in the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). His graduate research was focused on the reaction kinetic study on organic waste decomposition by a titanium dioxide photo-catalyst. [More] After he obtained his Ph.D. in 2006, he joined the hydrogen and fuel cell research team of GEL and worked on catalytic reforming of natural gas, fabrication of electrodes, and development of metal bipolar plates. Since 2009, he was in charge as the project coordinator of large-scale energy storage, including metal-air batteries and redox flow batteries for grid-scale energy storage. Dr. Wu has 4 patents and 17 papers published in conferences and journals. [Less]

Zhenguo (Gary) Yang
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Session 5: Advanced Electrochemical Storage RD&D at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications
Dr. Zhenguo (Gary) Yang is a Lab Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) of the U.S. Department of Energy, where he conducts applied research into advanced materials and energy conversion and storage. Currently, he is leading efforts in developing varied electrochemical energy storage technologies, in particular for renewable integration and grid applications. [More] Previously he was a Chief Scientist and served as a technical lead in areas including solid oxide fuel cells, mixed conductive coatings, and hydrogen storage in nanostructured materials. Dr. Yang has authored/co-authored over 180 research papers and is an inventor/co-inventor of 16 U.S. patents. He is a fellow of ASM International. Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Connecticut and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University before joining PNNL. [Less]

Zhang Yu
Technology and Development Center of Shanghai Municipal Electrical Power Company, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Session 4: Exploration and Practice of Energy Storage Technology in Shanghai