The 2013 Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) conference was held October 21-23 at the San Diego Marriot Marquis and Marina in San Diego, CA.
Available abstracts may be downloaded from the links within the agenda below.
Monday October 21, 2013 Welcome Opening Remarks Imre Gyuk US Department of Energy Welcoming Remarks Brad Roberts Exec. Director, Energy Storage Association Keynote Speaker Jon Wellinghoff FERC Chairman
Session 1: Markets, Policy, and Economics I — Building Blocks to Resilience Presentation Presenter Organization Valuation of Energy Storage – Quantification and Ongoing Policy Challenges Paul Denholm National Renewable Energy Laboratory Pricing Energy Storage for a Balanced Market Penetration Ali Nourai DNV KEMA The Role of Local Energy Markets as a Means to Increase the Participation of Electricity Storage Anthony Price Swanbarton Ltd.
Session 2: Storage Pathways Presentation Presenter Organization From Concept to Commercialization – China as a Design and Engineering Base for Low-Cost Flow Battery Products Robert Parry Smart Energy Holdings Ltd. Update on the Aqueous Hybrid Ion Battery: A Large Format Stationary Energy Storage Device Jay Whitacre Aquion Energy High Performance Flowing Electrolyte Battery for Grid-scale Energy Storage Jonathan Hall Primus Power
Session 3: Energy Storage — A Key to a Resilient Grid Poster Presenter Organization The Energetic Implications of Curtailing or Storing Wind and Solar Generated Electricity Charles Barnhart Stanford University Advances in Energy Storage Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment in California Avtar Bining California Energy Commission Solar PV and Storage Combine to Provide Cost Effective Energy, Resiliency, and Security for Critical Loads John Bryan Coda Energy Model Predictive Control Application in PV and Storage System Wesley Greenwood University of New Mexico A Second Life for Used MINI E Battery Packs in an Electrical Energy Storage System Tom Gage EV Grid, Inc. KEMEA: A Game-Changing Battery Mario Gottfried Dynacycle, S.A. de C.V. A Modular, Thermally Closed, Adsorption-Enhanced, Compressed Air Energy Storage System Timothy Havel Energy Compression, Inc. RedFlow ZBM USA Operational Experience Steven Hickey RedFlow LLC Contained Vacuum Energy Storage Samuel Kelly retired Optimizing Energy Storage to Mitigate Variability of Renewable Energy and Improve Resiliency of the Electricity Mohammad Shadmand Texas A&M University Reconfigurable Solar Converter (RSC): Single-Stage Power Conversion PV/Battery System Babak Parkhideh University of North Carolina at Charlotte Energy Dispatch Schedule Optimization for Demand Charge Reduction using a Photovoltaic-Battery Storage System with Solar Forecasting Ryan Hanna University of California, San Diego Baseload Power from Wind Farms using Magnesium Hydride Slurry for Hydrogen Storage Andrew McClaine Safe Hydrogen, LLC Status and Opportunities for Breakthrough Redox Flow Battery Systems Ronald Mosso EnerVault Corporation Optimal Sizing of Energy Storage and Photovoltaic Power Systems for Demand Charge Mitigation Jeremy Neubauer National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) The CellCube Vanadium Redox Flow Battery – A Critical Role in Grid Resiliency Bill Radvak American Vanadium Controls Framework for Grid Storage Satish Rajagopalan Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Session 4: EES Demonstrations & Field Testing — Illustrating the Possibility of Resilience Presentation Presenter Organization Ultracapacitor Solar Smoothing for Grid Stability R. Shaw Lynds Maxwell Technologies Use of a Fast Response Battery System for Frequency Regulation Richard Rocheleau University of Hawaii Demonstrations of Modular Energy Storage in the Northwest with Considerations of Resilience Improvements of Power Supply Michael Kintner-Meyer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Forward Operating Base Microgrid, Evaluation, and Testing of Energy Storage Systems David Rose Sandia National Laboratories Ambri’s First Deployment: Electricity Storage at the Massachusetts Military Reservation Michael Kearney Ambri, Inc.
Session 5: Grid and Micro-Grid Applications — Landmarks on the Path to Resilience Presentation Presenter Organization The Next Application for Energy Storage Resources on the Grid Bill Capp Grid Storage Consulting Dispatchable Hydro-Electricity John Banka The Hydro-Gen Group Combining Large-Scale Pumped Hydro Storage and Wind for 1200 Megawatts of 100% Renewable, High-Capacity Factor, Fully-Dispatchable Electric Generation in the Upper Midwest Robert Schulte Schulte Associates LLC Energy Storage Monitoring and Control for a Microgrid Chuck Wells OSIsoft, LLC
Session 6: Markets, Policy, and Economics II — Building Blocks to Resilience Presentation Presenter Organization Solving the Renewable+Battery Case in a Robust Way: Use of Operational Data and Dedicated Modeling Tool Michael Salomon Clean Horizon The Transmission Planning Process: A Key to Energy Storage’s Use for Transmission Reliability Projects Charlie Vartanian UniEnergy Technologies Secret for a Lasting Storage and Grid Marriage? The Right Chemistry! Pramod Kulkarni Customized Energy Solutions Estimation of Capital and Levelized Cost for Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Vilayanur Viswanathan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tuesday October 22, 2013 Session 7: Electrochemistry & Materials — Elemental Building Blocks to Resilience Presentation Presenter Organization Tailorable Ionic Materials for Higher Energy Density Redox Flow Batteries Travis Anderson Sandia National Laboratories Characterization of Phase Chemistry in Sol-Gel NaSICON Erik Spoerke Sandia National Laboratories Advances in PNNL’s Mixed Acid Redox Flow Battery Stack Vincent Sprenkle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Session 8: Standards: Creating the Backbone for Industry Reliability Session 9: Emerging EES Technologies — New Steps Toward Resilience Presentation Presenter Organization Isothermal CAES: Fuel-free, Site-flexible Energy Storage for Renewables Integration and T&D Substitution Richard Brody SustainX, Inc. Innovative Design and Fabrication of High Energy and Power Kinetic Flywheel Energy Storage System Sung Ha Hanyang University, South Korea Power-to-Gas: A Hydrogen Energy Storage Solution Ryan Sookhoo Hydrogenics Design and Performance Details of UET’s Compact Flow Battery Product Rick Winter UET Technologies The Evolution of UltraBattery® Technology John Wood Ecoult
Session 10: EES Special Applications — Illustrating the Possibility of Resilience Presentation Presenter Organization Second-Life Applications for PEV Battery Systems: Early Testing to Early Commercialization Mike Ferry California Center for Sustainable Energy Approaches to Evaluating and Improving Lithium-Ion Battery Safety Christopher Orendorff Sandia National Laboratories Utilizing EV/PHEV Batteries for Community Energy Storage System Applications Michael Starke Oak Ridge National Laboratory Advanced Thermal Energy Storage for Direct Load Control in a Low Load Growth – High DG Future Paul Steffes Steffes Corporation Stationery Energy Storage System Using Repurposed Electric Vehicle Batteries Randy Wachal Manitoba HVDC Research Centre
Session 11: Energy Storage — A Key to a Resilient Grid Poster Presenter Organization SiC JFETS Reduce the Balance of System for Stationary Energy Storage Power Conversion Systems John Hostetler United Silicon Carbide, Inc. Evaluation of SiC Power MOSFET Reliability under DC and AC Gate Bias Stress Robert Kaplar Sandia National Laboratories Advanced Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors for High Energy Density and High Temperature Applications Seongate Kwon TRS Technologies Compressed Air Energy Storage: Matching the Earth to the Turbo-Machinery — No Small Task Michael King The Hydrodynamics Group, LLC Fabrication and Characterization of High Temperature Capacitors Using Novel Thermal Spray Processing Routes Eugene Furman Pennsylvania State University Development of Nonaqueous Redox Flow Battery Wei Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Lessons Learned from a Distributed Energy Storage Demonstration Ed Sanchez Sacramento Municipal Utility District No Fuel Compressed Air Energy Storage Plants Applied to Enhancing the Utilization of Renewable Generation Resources Robert Schainker Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Nano-Encapsulated Materials for Highly Tunable High Temperature Capacitors Paul Lichty PneumatiCoat Technologies LLC Integration of Distributed Solar and Storage to Support Distribution System Stability Doug Staker Demand Energy Networks Market Evaluation for Energy Storage in the United States Francie Israeli DNV-KEMA Development of a Containerized 200kW NAS Battery Unit Tomio Tamakoshi NGK Insulators, Ltd. Breakthrough Energy Storage Using Surge Current Turn-Off Solid State Switching Jason Waldron Silicon Power Corporation New Nanoparticulate Membranes and Electrodes for Advancing Rechargeable Batteries Z. Ryan Tian University of Arkansas Optimal Sizing of Residential Battery Energy Storage Systems Using Historical Demand Anthony Vassallo University of Sydney, Australia Higher Conductivity NASICON Electrolyte for Room Temperature Solid-State Sodium Ion Batteries Eric Wachsman University of Maryland Energy Research Center Flywheel Energy Storage Emulation Using Reconfigurable Hardware Test-Bed of Power Converters Jing Wang The University of Tennessee at Knoxville Hydrogen/Bromine Flow Batteries Adam Weber Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Printable Grid-Scale Energy Storage Zinc/MnO2 Battery Chun-Hsing Wu Industrial Technology Research Institute DC-Link Capacitors for Grid-Based Inverter Applications Angelo Yializis Sigma Technologies Intl.
Session 12: Modeling and Simulation: Understanding the Process Toward Resilience Session 13: Power Electronics — Vital to Storage Flexibility Presentation Presenter Organization Capacitor Development for Reliable High Temperature Operation in Inverter Applications Geoff Brennecka Sandia National Laboratories Impact Study of Value-Added Functionality on Inverter Reliability in Stationary Energy Storage Systems Eric Green North Carolina State University Robust Devices and Compact Power Electronics for Next Generation Energy-Storage and Power Systems Sudip Mazumder NextWatt, LLC; A High Voltage (15 kV) SiC Multi-Chip Power Module (MCPM) for Grid-Tied Applications Brandon Passmore Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.
Session 14: Distributed Energy Storage — Reliable, Flexible, and Resilient Presentation Presenter Organization A Compact Modular Distributed Energy Storage System Edward Liang MCV Energy, Inc. Energy Storage Can Enable Wider Deployment of Distributed Generation Troy Miller S&C Electric Co. Analyzing the Effects of Climate and Thermal Configuration on Community Energy Storage Systems Jeremy Neubauer National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Smart Grid Cloud Platform of Distributed Energy Storage for Frequency Regulation Service to Community Energy Storage Application Kenji Taima Panasonic Corporation
Wednesday October 23, 2013 Session 15: Batteries and Electrochemistry — Building Blocks to Resilience Presentation Presenter Organization Development of Sodium-Iodine Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage Sai Bhavaraju Ceramatec, Inc. Off Gas Monitoring for Li-Ion Batteries: Implications for Control and Life Extension Davion Hill Det Norske Veritas, USA, Inc. Redox Flow Batteries with High Power Density Cells Mike Perry United Technologies Research Center Utility Energy Storage Using Large Format LiFePO4 Batteries Paul Scott TransPower Prussian Blue Batteries for Long Cycle Life, High Power Stationary Energy Storage Colin Wessells Alveo Energy Photo-Thermally Reduced Graphene: High Performance Li-Ion Batteries Rahul Mukherjee Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Capacitive Performance of Titanium Carbide Based MXenes Maria Lukatskaya Drexel University
Session 16: Renewables & Storage — Flexible, Reliable, and Clean
