Albuquerque, NM | June 2-4
Agenda
This year’s Energy Storage Systems Safety and Reliability Forum will focus on the following topics:
Tuesday, June 2
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 7:00 – 8:00am | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:10 – 9:10am | Tutorial: What Causes Thermal Runaway/What are the Materials Processes Involved? |
| 9:10 – 9:25am | Break |
| 9:25 – 10:25am | Tutorial: Historical Trends in Battery/ESS Design and Mitigating Thermal Runaway + Present-day and Forward-Looking Best Practices in Designing “Safer” Systems |
| 10:25 – 10:40am | Break |
| 10:40 – 11:40am | Tutorial: What if Systems Fail? |
| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:20 – 2:00pm | Keynote Speaker |
| 2:00 – 2:30pm | Session 1: Affordable Next-Generation Battery Chemistries: Are Our Validation Methods Keeping Up? |
| 2:30 – 2:50pm | Break |
| 2:50 – 4:20pm | Session 1 cont. |
| 6:00 – 8:00pm | Welcome Reception and Poster Display |
Wednesday, June 3
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 7:00 – 8:00am | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:10 – 9:10am | Keynote Speaker |
| 9:10 – 10:20am | Session 2: What Does ‘Safe’ Really Mean? Defining Quantifiable Risk Thresholds for Energy Storage Systems |
| 10:00 – 10:20am | Break |
| 10:20 – 11:30am | Session 2 cont. |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Lunch |
| 12:30 – 2:50pm | Session 3: Why Do Energy Storage Systems Still Fail? Bridging the Gap Between Component Testing and System Reality |
| 2:50 – 3:10pm | Break |
| 3:10 – 5:10pm | Session 4: Field Performance Under Real Operating Conditions: What Deployment Data Reveals About Reliability |
| 6:00 – 8:00pm | Plated Dinner |
Thursday, June 4
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 7:00 – 8:00am | Breakfast |
| 8:10 – 10:00am | Session 5: Safety Considerations for Emerging Applications: New Duty Profiles, New Reliability Expectations |
| 10:20 – 11:10am | Session 6: Lessons Written in Fire: What Incidents Teach Us (Panel) |
| 11:10am – 12:00pm | Session 7: What Don’t You Know That Could Break Everything? The Standards and Public Information Gap Behind Safe and Reliable Deployment (Panel) |
| 12:10 – 1:10pm | Adjourn (Boxed lunches provided) |
Check back for further details as the conference approaches!
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.