2018 Program Peer Review and Update Meeting
The 2018 Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Storage Program Peer Review and Update Meeting was held September 25-27 at the Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, NM.
Most presentations and posters are available for download from the links within the agenda below.
Tuesday, September 25
| 7:30-8:45am | Peer Reviewers’ Breakfast & Information Meeting | Gina Fresquez J. Hernandez |
Sandia National Laboratories |
| 8:50-8:55am | Facilitator Opening and Introductions | James Greenberger | NAATBatt International |
| 9:00-9:30am | DOE Welcome | Dr. Imre Gyuk | US Department of Energy Office of Electricity |
| 9:35-9:45am | Electricity Advisory Committee | Ramteen Sioshansi | The Ohio State University |
| 9:50-10:20am | Laboratories’ Summary Overview Michael Starke Vincent Sprenkle Babu Chalamala |
Michael Starke Vincent Sprenkle Babu Chalamala |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories |
| Morning Break | |||
| 10:45-11:50am | Meet the 2018 Peer Reviewers | James Greenberger, Facilitator | |
| 12:00pm | Lunch – provided onsite at the Eldorado | Irene Trujillo | Sandia National Laboratories |
| 1:00-1:55pm | Energy Storage R&D and Academic Partners | ||
| Session Chair | Erik Spoerke | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Alkaline Zn-MnO2 Batteries | Sanjoy Banerjee | City University of New York | |
| Advanced Capacitors for Future Power Conversion Systems | Bruce Gnade | Southern Methodist University | |
| 2:00-2:40pm | Energy Storage: Industrial Acceptance | ||
| Session Chair | Patrick Balducci | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| Battery Storage State of Health Model | Vish Viswanthan | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| Control System Enhancement Using the Optimization Performance Evaluation Tool |
Jan Alam | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| HECO Demand Response Tool | Di Wu | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| 2:45-3:50pm | Equitable Regulatory Environment & Status Report | ||
| Session Chairs | Ray Byrne Rebecca O’Neil |
Sandia National Laboratories Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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| Energy Storage: State Regulatory Engagement | Jeremy Twitchell | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| ES Valuation Optimization Tool | Ricky Concepcion Felipe Wilches-Bernal |
Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Optimal Sizing of Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage with Stochastic Load and PV Generation for Islanded Operation | David Copp | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Optimal Time-of-Use Management with Power Factor Correction Using Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage Systems | Tu Nguyen | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Energy Storage & Financing | Richard Baxter | Mustang Prairie | |
| Afternoon Break | |||
| 4:00-5:15pm | Applied Materials I | ||
| Session Chair | Wei Wang | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| Flow Battery Electrolyte Chemistry Development | Vijay Murugesan | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| Aqueous Soluble Organic (ASO) Flow Battery Development | Aaron Hollas | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| Intermediate Temperature Na -Metal Halide Development | Guosheng Li | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| Na-ion Battery Development | Xiaolin Li | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| Li-ion Reliability | Daiwon Choi | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| 5:30-6:30pm | Meet and Greet Reception | Irene Trujillo | Sandia National Laboratories |
Wednesday, September 26
| 8:30-9:00am | Energy Storage / Industry Acceptance: Demonstrations and Deployment | ||
| Session Chair | Dan Borneo | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Applications that Reduce the Use of Gensets | Craig Kuntz | Cordova Electric Cooperative | |
| NEC Lithium Ion ESS located at Howard Elementary: Resiliency and Utility Support (EWEB) | Matt Ibaraki | Eugene Water & Electric Board | |
| CESA State Projects and Policy Development | Todd Olinsky-Paul | Clean Energy States Alliance | |
| 9:15-9:45am | Energy Storage for Grid Resilience | ||
| Session Chair | Frank Currie | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| ESS on ANZA Grid for T&D and Resiliency Support | Frank Currie | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Multi Objective Labs for Energy Storage Resiliency | Benjamin Schenkman | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Grid Stability Using Distributed Energy Storage | David Schoenwald | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Morning Break | |||
| 10:00-10:50am | Power Electronics | ||
| Session Chair | Stan Atcittty | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Power Dense Converter Electronics for Grid-tied ESS | Bruce Pilvelait | Creare | |
| All-SiC Power Module for Grid-tied Energy Storage | Ranbir Singh | GeneSic | |
| Smart GaN-based Inverters for Grid-tied ESS | Medhi Ferdowsi | InnoCit | |
| Reliability Characterization of Wide-Band Gap Semiconductor Switches | Slobodyan Oleksiy | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Morning Break | |||
| 11:00-11:55am | New Energy Storage Technologies | ||
| Session Chair | Michael Starke | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Low Cost Membrane Separators for High Energy Density Organic Radical Mediated Flow Batteries | Ethan Self | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Processes in Components for the Redox Flow Battery | Tom Zawodzinski | Univ TN/ Knoxville | |
| Novel Ground Level Integrated Diverse Energy Storage (GLIDES) | Ayyoub Momen | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Power Electronics Based Grid Integration Technology for Energy Storage Applications | Madhu Chinthavali* | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| 12:00pm | Lunch – provided onsite at the Eldorado | Irene Trujillo | Sandia National Laboratories |
| 1:05-2:00pm | Energy Storage Safety & Reliability | ||
| Session Chair | Summer Ferreira | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Aging and Abuse of Commercial Li-ion Cells | Summer Ferreira | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Battery Abuse Test Development | Josh Lamb | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Using Modeling to Predict & Mitigate Thermal Runaway | John Hewson | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Update on Energy Storage System Safety Roadmap Codes and Standards Activities | Charlie Vartanian | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| 2:00-3:00pm | ES – Applied Materials II | ||
| Session Chair | Travis Anderson | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Alkaline Batteries for Grid Storage Applications | Tim Lambert | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Membranes for Flow Battery Applications | Cy Fujimoto | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Aqueous-Soluble Organic Flow Battery Chemistry with Long Lifetime in Weak Alkaline Electrolyte | Michael Aziz | Harvard University | |
| Relating Membrane Materials Properties to Crossover Mechanisms in Flow Batteries | Travis Anderson Leo Small |
Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Materials Advances for Molten Sodium Batteries | Erik Spoerke | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Afternoon Break | |||
| 3:15-4:15pm | Focus on ES Partnerships and Collaborations with Industry & Academia | ||
| Session Chair | David Rosewater | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Optimization and Controls for ES Safety | David Reed | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| On the Role of Energy Storage in the Operation of Future Fossil Free Utilities | Robb Thomson | National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
| Demonstration of a kW Class Redox Battery Using an Advanced Bi-additive Vanadium Sulfate Electrolyte | Brian Berland | ITN Energy Systems | |
| Improving Stability of Battery Additives and Electrolytes Using Redox Non-Innocent Ligand Complexes | Mitch Anstey | Davidson College (North Carolina) | |
| 4:20-4:50pm | 2018 ES Poster Session Introductions | James Greenberger | NAATBatt International |
| 5:00-6:30pm | Poster Session & Interviews |
Thursday, September 27
| 9:00-10:00am | Innovative Next Steps & Funding Opportunities Round Table Discussion | Varied | Varied |
| 10:00-10:30am | DOE OE Closeout Remarks | Dr. Imre Gyuk | DOE |
| 8:00-11:30am | Completed Peer Review Evaluations Accepted Onsite | J. Hernandez | SNL |