The 2015 DOE Energy Storage Program Peer Review and Update Meeting was held September 22-24 at the Portland Hilton and Towers, Portland, OR.
Download the full agenda here. Most presentations are available for download from the links below.
Tuesday, September 22
Welcome/Opening Session
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Peer Review Welcome | Dr. Imre Gyuk | US Department of Energy, Energy Storage Program |
| Keynote | Gregory K. Delwiche | Bonneville Power Authority |
| DOE Energy Storage Program | Dr. Imre Gyuk | US Department of Energy, Energy Storage Program |
| SNL OE-ES Overview | Babu Chalamala | Sandia National Laboratories |
| PNNL OE-ES Overview | Vincent Sprenkle | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| ORNL OE-ES Overview | Michael Starke | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Session 1 — Chair: Stan Atcitty, Sandia National Laboratories
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| PE Reliability 2 (FY15) | David Hughart | Sandia National Laboratories |
| 60kW DC-AC Inverter with Internal Isolation using GaN Devices | Martin Becker | Princeton Power Systems |
| Highly Efficient, High Power Density GaN-based DC-DC Converters for Grid-Tied Energy Storage Applications 1 | Daniel Martin | APEI |
| Innovative Nanocomposites Materials for Flywheels | Tim Boyle | Sandia National Laboratories |
DOE/OE Energy Storage Portfolio Projects Presented at EESAT 2015
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Safety Codes and Standards Effort | Dave Conover | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Secondary Use Energy Storage System Prototype Utilizing Varying Size and Chemistry Batteries | Michael Starke | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Compressed Air Energy Storage | Robert Booth | Pacific Gas and Electric |
| Hawaii: Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) | Laurence Sombardier | NELHA |
| Testing: Stack Wave Form: Results of multiple simultaneous uses on life of a lithium ion cell | Summer Ferreira | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Performance Protocol | Vish Viswanathan | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Valuation and Testing of Advanced Energy Storage for ARPA-E by UC San Diego | William V. Torre | UC San Diego |
| Grid-Scale Energy Storage Demonstration for Ancillary Services Using Ultrabattery | John Wood | Ecoult East Penn |
| Optimal Control of Distributed Networked Energy Storage for Improved Small-Signal Stability | Dave Schoenwald | Sandia National Laboratories |
| 10kW 80kWh Energy Storage System Based on AllIron Hybrid Flow Battery | Julia Song | Energy Storage Systems, Inc. |
| SiC-based Topologies for Grid-tied Energy Storage Applications (GER-ES) | Chad Eckhardt | GridBridge, Inc. |
Wednesday, September 23
Session 2 — Chair: Kim Nuhfer, U.S. Department of Energy, NETL
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| NETL-ARRA overview | Kim Nuhfer | U.S Department of Energy, NETL |
| Detroit Edison’s Advanced Implementation of community Energy Storage Systems for Grid Support | Haukur Asgeirsson | DTE Energy |
| Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project Using Li-Ion Batteries | Grant Davis | Southern California Edison |
| Vionx Energy Corporation Distributed Energy Storage System Demonstration | Doug Alderton | Vionx Energy Corporation |
| ARRA Energy Storage Study | Don Bender | Sandia National Laboratories |
Session 3 — Chair: Vince Sprenkle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Room Temperature Sodium Flow Battery | Leon Shaw | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Advances in PNNL’s Mixed Acid Redox Flow Battery Stack | David Reed | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Na-metal Halide Battery Development | Guosheng Li | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Composite Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries | Xingbo Liu | West Virginia University |
| Room Temperature Na-ion Battery Development | Xioalin Li | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Prussian Blue Materials for Na-ion Batteries | Hyun-Wook Lee | Stanford University |
Session 4 — Chair: Dan Borneo, Sandia National Laboratories
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Industry Acceptance Thrust – Overview | Dan Borneo | Sandia National Laboratories |
| California Energy Commission (CEC) : UC San Diego | Bill Torre | University of California San Diego |
| Demo/Optimization: Texas Tech University | Ben Gully | DNV GL |
| CESA: Vermont GMP | Chris Larsen | Dynapower |
| CESA: Oregon | Diane Broad | Oregon Department of Energy |
| Clean Energy States Alliance | Todd Olinsky-Paul | CESA |
| Energy Storage in Alaska | Marc Mueller-Stoffels | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| Active Damping of Power System Oscillations Using Distributed Energy Storage | David Schoenwald | Sandia National Laboratories |
Poster Session 5 – Chair: Rusty Heffner, ARPA-E, U.S. Department of Energy
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Flow Battery Spectroelectrochemistry: In Operando Monitoring for Safety and Reliability | Travis Anderson | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Novel High Energy Density Dielectrics for Scalable Capacitor | Harlan Brown-Shaklee | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Hawaiian Electric Energy Storage Cost Analysis | Ray Byrne | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Los Alamos County (LAC) Energy Storage and Renewables Study | Ray Byrne | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Smart GaN-Based Inverters for Grid-tied Energy Storage Systems | Mehdi Ferdowsi | Missouri University of Science & Technology |
| Reliable High-Performance Gate Oxides for Wide Band Gap Devices | Jon Ihlefeld | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Low-Cost Sodium-Ion Battery to Enable Grid Scale Energy Storage: Prussian Blue-Derived Cathode and Complete Battery Integration | Jong-Jan Lee | Sharp Labs of America |
| Recent Development of Zinc-Polyiodide Redox Flow Battery at PNNL | Bin Li | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Advanced Magnesium Batteries | Gousheng Li | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Lithium Sulphur Batteries for Grid Applications | Chengdu Liange | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| K-S Battery | Xiaochuan Lu | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Na-ion Conducting Membranes for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries | Jagjit Nanda | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| An Inexpensive Metal-free Organic Redox Flow Battery from Grid-scale Storage | Sri Narayan | University of Southern California |
| Power Dense Converter Electronics for Grid Tied Energy Storage Containers | Bruce Pilvelait | Creare, Inc. |
| A Single Substance Organic Redox Flow Battery | Paul Rasmussen | Vinazene, Inc. |
| Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications | Scott Reeves | Eagle Pilcher |
| Optimal Control of Distributed Networked Energy Storage for Improved Small-Signal Stability | David Schoenwald | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Iron Based Flow Batteries for Low Cost Grid Scale Energy Storage | Nicholas Sinclair | Case Western Reserve University |
| All-Silicon Carbide power module based boost converter platform for grid-tied energy | Ranbir Singh | GeneSiC Semiconductor, Inc. |
| Secondary Use of Vehicle Batteries on the Electric Grid | Michael Starke | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Flow Battery Stack Performance | Ed Thomsen | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Low-Cost Grid-Scale Electrical Storage Using a Rechargeable Zinc-Manganese Dioxide Battery | Damon Turney | CUNY Energy Institute |
| High Energy Storage Capacity Low-Cost Iron Flow Battery | Jesse Wainwright | Case Western Reserve University |
| All Organic Flow Battery | Xiaoliang Wei | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| High Voltage Capacitors for DC-Link Applications | Angelo Yializis | Sigma Technologies International, Inc. |
DOE/OE Energy Storage Portfolio Projects Presented at EESAT 2015
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| WA State Clean Energy Fund – Use Case Analysis Assessing the Economic Benefits of Washington Clean Energy Fund Energy Storage Projects | Landis Kannberg | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Leading edge hybrid lead-acid: continuous partialcharge cycling, field reports, commercial | John Wood | Ecoult East Penn |
| Battery Storage Evaluation Tool: Assessing the Economic Benefits of Energy Storage and Microgrids | Patrick Balducci | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Small Organic Molecule Based Flow Battery for Grid Storage | Michael Aziz | Harvard University |
| Redox Flow Battery Development for Stationary Energy Storage Applications | Vince Sprenkle | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Next Generation Aqueous Redox Flow Battery Development | Wei Wang | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Developing MW-scale mixed-acid all vanadium redox flow battery system | Liyu Li | UniEnergy Technologies |
Thursday, September 24
Session 6 — Chair: Cy Fujimoto, Sandia National Laboratories
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Component Research for Redox Flow Batteries and ‘Open’ Batteries | Tom Zawodzinski | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Advanced Membranes for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries | Cy Fujimoto | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Advanced Materials for Ionic Liquid Flow Battery | Travis Anderson | Sandia National Laboratories |
Session 7 — Chair: Landis Kannberg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium-Based Battery Development | Dave Ingersoll | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Update on Energy Storage Safety Working Group | Stan Atcitty | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Energy Storage Hazard Analysis and Risk Management | David Rosewater | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Performance and Life Cycle Analysis of Energy Storage Devices | Summer Ferreira | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Energy Storage Systems Analysis Laboratory — ESTP Operations and Results | David Rosewater | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Amber Kinetics Flywheel Energy Storage Demonstration | Seth Sanders | Amber Kinetics |
Session 8 — Chair: Babu Chalamala, Sandia National Laboratories
| Presentation | Presenter | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| DOE/EPRI Energy Storage Handbook in Collaboration with NRECA | Jacquelynne Hernández | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Potential Revenue from electrical Energy Storage in ERCOT: The Impact of location and Recent Trends | Ray Byme | Sandia National Laboratories |
| International Energy Storage Working Group | Vish Viswanathan | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| DOE Global Energy Storage Database | Cedric O. Christensen | Strategen Consulting |