2026 Energy Storage Safety & Reliability Forum

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Albuquerque, NM | June 2-4

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Why Attend

  • Dive into the latest discussions about the current state of energy storage, its challenges, and the innovative solutions on the horizon.
  • Hear from distinguished experts, including energy storage developers, utility representatives, system integrators, and academic scholars.
  • Engage with the latest safety and reliability best practices and research.
  • This event disseminates energy storage safety data, tools, and best practices, supports technical advancements in safety and reliability, and helps to accelerate affordable storage deployment.  

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For questions, email us at: essrforum@sandia.gov

The Energy Storage Systems Safety and Reliability Forum, sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program, provides a platform for discussing the current state of ESS Safety & Reliability and stratagems for improving cell-to-system level safety and reliability. The forum provides an overview of work in, and creating the future of, energy storage safety and reliability. Attendees span academia, government, manufacturers, utilities, and first responders, playing a vital role in charting the future of energy storage safety and reliability.

Energy storage system safety and reliability refers to the safe and reliable design, installation, operation, incident response, and decommissioning of energy storage systems. Making energy storage technologies safer and more reliable is essential to advance and deliver the technologies’ benefits to the electrical grid and consumers.

Safety and reliability research improves the understanding and predictability of energy storage systems and components under realistic grid conditions and use cases through advanced research, testing, and standards guidance. Since 2014, the Energy Storage Safety and Reliability Forum has provided a critical platform to connect key stakeholders and advance contributions to the field.

The Safety and Reliability Forum is organized by a collaboration between Sandia National Laboratories and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity’s Energy Storage Division.