On March 26-27, 2025, Sandia technical systems analyst Will McNamara was featured as a keynote speaker at the 2025 USA Energy Storage Summit held in Dallas, TX. The presentation, entitled “A New Era for Long-Duration Technologies,” provided an overview of existing policies and regulations for long-duration technologies and their commercial use cases. McNamara also participated as a panelist in a session titled “Assessing the Market Use-Case for Long Duration Energy Storage,” moderated by Julie Thompson, Vice President of Origination, Commercial & Industrial at Hydrostor, which included fellow panelists from Energy Dome, Echogen, Invinity, and e-zinc.
The Energy Storage Summit includes sessions covering market projections, innovative business models, regulatory impacts, and the integration of renewable energy sources. The annual event focuses on enhancing grid reliability and security through advanced storage solutions. The summit consistently attracts C-Level executives, senior management, project managers, consultants, and key industry stakeholders from across the entire energy storage ecosystem.
The keynote presentation and panel discussion provided an opportunity for McNamara to discuss the progress that the LDES National Consortium has made over the last year contributing to the development of commercialization pathways for emerging energy storage technologies. Additionally, the discussion articulated focused areas of work required to reach DOE goals associated with energy storage and support DOE research and innovation priorities.
For more information, please contact Will McNamara or visit Energy Storage Summit USA.
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity (OE), Energy Storage Division.