Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Welcome Remarks	Abraham Ellis	Senior Manager, Sandia National Laboratories Renewable Energy Technologies
Welcome Remarks	Imre Gyuk	U.S. DOE Office of Electricity, Energy Storage Program
Welcome Remarks	Gilbert Bindewald III	Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. DOE Office of Electricity
Introduction	Jim Greenberger	NAATBatt International
Roundtable: National Laboratory Energy Storage Program Managers

Session 1: Deployment Projects
Session Lead: Waylon Clark

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Sandia’s Energy Storage Demonstration Projects Team Overview	Waylon Clark	Sandia National Laboratories
Ongoing Demonstration Project Updates	Henry Guan	Sandia National Laboratories
CESA Support of Sandia’s Energy Storage Demonstration Program	Todd Olinsky-Paul	Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA)
NFPA 855 Code Challenges in Deployments	Matt Paiss	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) Offgrid Demonstration Project in Dilkon, AZ	Gabriel Cowles	Urban Electric Power
Vermont Wind Curtailment Mitigation BESS	Craig Kieny	Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) / Green Mountain Power (GMP)
St. Mary’s / Mountain Village, Alaska: Grid Bridging Demonstration Project	William Thomson	Alaska Village Electric Cooperative (AVEC)
Sandia Demonstration Projects Data Collection	Tim Wilcox	Sandia National Laboratories

Session 2: Equity & Resilience
Session Lead: Jen Yoshimura

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Advancing Equity in the DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program	Jen Yoshimura	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
QuESt Equity: A New Open Source Tool for ESS Equity Analysis	David Rosewater	Sandia National Laboratories
ES4SE Technical Assistance and Project Development & Deployment	Jen Yoshimura Henry Guan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories
ES4SE Equity and Workforce	Adrienne Rackley	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Community Panel — Advancing Energy Equity & Justice with Community Leaders	Les Rubin	Picuris Pueblo
Community Panel – cont.	Abel Thompson	Together New Orleans
Community Panel – cont.	Jonathan Lewis	Klickitat Valley Health

Session 3: Safety & Reliability
Session Lead: Matt Paiss

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Safety & Reliability Overview	Matt Paiss	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Li-ion Battery Cell Test Update for Grid Application	Daiwon Choi	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Reliability Investigation of All-Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries	Qian Huang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Impacts of Module Configuration on Lithium-ion Battery Performance and Degradation	Yuliya Preger	Sandia National Laboratories
Cross-lab Comparison of Standardized and Module-Level Propagation Modeling: Sandia and NITE Collaboration	Alex Bates	Sandia National Laboratories
Improving Solid State Battery Safety Understanding through Calorimetry and Materials Characterization	Megan Diaz	Sandia National Laboratories
Deflagration Prevention for GSL Facility Design	Adam Jivelekas	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Thermal Runaway Severity Database and Large Area Temperature Monitoring for Energy Storage System	Hsin Wang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Evening Reception & Poster Display

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Welcome Remarks	Imre Gyuk	U.S. DOE Office of Electricity, Energy Storage Program

Keynote Session

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
The Illinois Experience	Brian Granahan	Acting Director, Illinois Power Agency

Session 4: Sodium Batteries
Session Lead: Erik Spoerke

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Sodium-Based Batteries	Erik Spoerke	Sandia National Laboratories
Low Temperature Molten Sodium Batteries	Leo Small	Sandia National Laboratories
Shorting in Solid Electrolytes for Long Duration Sodium Batteries	Ryan Hill and Y-T Cheng	University of Kentucky
Intermediate Temperature Sodium Battery Technologies	Guosheng Li	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nonaqueous Sodium-Based Catholytes for Redox Flow Batteries	Ethan Self	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sodium Ion Batteries	Xiaolin Li	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Scalable Method to Produce Sodium Manganese Nickel Iron Oxide Cathode Active Material	Kris Pupek	Argonne National Laboratory

Session 5: Medium & Long Duration Energy Storage
Session Lead: Imre Gyuk

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Introductions	Imre Gyuk	U.S. DOE Office of Electricity, Energy Storage Program
Beyond Four Hours: Potential Market Drivers for Deploying Long-Duration Energy Storage	Paul Denholm	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
EPRI Involvement with LDES Pilots	Kelyn Wood	Electric Power Research Institute
Long Duration Solar Thermal Energy Storage	Margaret Gordon	Sandia National Laboratories
Mediated Li-S Flow Batteries	Leo Small	Sandia National Laboratories
Soluble Iron-Based Redox Flow	Aaron Hollas	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Session 6: Flow Batteries
Session Lead: Gaberiel Veith

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Enabling Integration of Renewable Energy Sources with Long Duration Electrochemical Energy Storage	Gabriel Veith	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Improving the Durability of Sandia’s Flow Battery Membrane	Cy Fujimoto	Sandia National Laboratories
Recent Developments in Electrolytes and Membranes for Durable Redox Flow Batteries	Sandip Maurya	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sugar Additive Enabled High-Capacity and Long-Life Aqueous Organic Flow Battery	Ruozhu Feng	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tailored Ion-selective Membranes for Low-cost Alkali Metal Redox-flow Batteries	Guang Yang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Acoustic-Based Real-Time Monitoring of Redox Flow Battery State-of-Health	Wei Wang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Session 7: Zinc & Lead Batteries
Session Lead: Xiaolin Li

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Advancing Zn- and Pb-based Batteries for a Safe and Reliable Grid	Xiaolin Li	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Progress in Aqueous Zn-based Batteries	Timothy Lambert	Sandia National Laboratories
Zinc|Manganese Dioxide Batteries for Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Systems	Gautam Yadav	Urban Electric Power (UEP)
Progress with Manufacturing and Deploying Zn-MnO2 Batteries	Sanjoy Banerjee	Urban Electric Power (UEP)
Zinc Battery Research at PNNL	Matthew Fayette	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
X-ray Characterization of Sulfation in Lead Batteries During Cycling	Tim Fister	Argonne National Laboratory
Addressing Interfacial Complexities in Pb-acid Batteries to Enable Higher Cycling Life	Vijay Murugesan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Dinner and Keynote Session

Title	Keynote Speaker	Organization
New Mexico’s Clean Energy Future: Key Partnerships and Strategic Vision	Sarah Cottrell Propst	Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD)

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Welcome Remarks	Imre Gyuk	U.S. DOE Office of Electricity, Energy Storage Program

Session 8: Power Electronics
Session Lead: Stan Atcitty

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Energy Storage Power Electronics Program	Stan Atcitty	Sandia National Laboratories
Power Electronic System For Secondary Use Batteries (Advancing Controls)	Michael Starke	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Development of Modular Hardware Architectures for Medium Voltage Energy Storage Systems	Jacob Mueller	Sandia National Laboratories
Design and Circuit Evaluation of Advanced Iron Nitride Magnetics	Todd Monson	Sandia National Laboratories
Multi-Port AC-Interfacing Converters with Common High-Frequency Link	Alvaro Cardoza	Missouri University of Science and Technology
Resilient “Plug-n-Play” Storage Integrated Electricity Solutions for Off-Grid Communities	Joseph Benzaquen	Georgia Institute of Technology
A Quasi-Switched-Capacitor-Based Bidirectional Isolated DC-DC Converter with High Voltage Conversion Ratio and Reduced Current Ripple	Zhining Zhang	The Ohio State University

Session 9: Analytics & Tools
Session Lead: Patrick Balducci

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Review of Recent Energy Storage Analytics Research	Patrick Balducci	Argonne National Laboratory
Ensuring Knowledgeable End-of-Life Considerations in Stationary Storage Applications	Qiang Dai	Argonne National Laboratory
Power System Planning for Decarbonization & Energy Storage	Cody Newlun	Sandia National Laboratories
QuESt 2.0 – Open-source Python Platform for Energy Storage Analytics: Major Update	Tu Nguyen	Sandia National Laboratories
Elevating Grid Deployments of Storage with Advanced Analytics and Tools	Di Wu	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Long-Term Storage Planning Models and System Analysis	Konstantinos Oikonomou	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Advanced Analytics to Support Technoeconomic Studies of New Storage Investments	Patrick Balducci	Argonne National Laboratory

Session 10: Regulatory
Session Lead: Will McNamara

Session Topic	Presenter	Organization
Introductions	Will McNamara	Sandia National Laboratories
Energy Storage Regulatory Program Overview	Jeremy Twitchell	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Quantitative Policy Analysis (California Mandate Analysis and Interconnection Queue Analysis)	Daniel Boff	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Local Zoning and Permitting for Battery Energy Storage Systems	Devyn Powell	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Economic Analysis of V2G Fleets for Grid Services, Part 2	Christine Holland	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Energy Storage Policy: Observations	Will McNamara	Sandia National Laboratories