DOE Long-Duration Energy Storage Workshop Community Table

We recognize it is impossible to call out all of the excellent work the energy storage community is doing during this short workshop! So, we invite you to contribute to our LDES “Community Table” aimed at identifying more of the people and programs that make up the emerging LDES community. If you would like to be included, please fill out the fields below and your information will be displayed for site-visitors to review. Email addresses will not be displayed, but will be used by our organizing team to contact you for future activities or community engagement.

*The table is not updated automatically, but we will maintain it regularly. Thank you!

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Name: Ambrosini, Andrea
Institution: Sandia National Laboratories
Keywords: thermochemical storage, hydrogen, fuels
Brief Description of Research or Activity: R&D on materials for solar thermochemical energy storage (metal oxides) and fuels production (H2, CO, NH3)

Name: Amy, Caleb
Institution: Department of Energy Solar Office
Keywords: thermal; chemical; cost; value; tradeoff
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Prior design and experimental thermal storage of electricity. Currently, technoeconomics across all storage options.

Name: Balda, Juan Balda
Institution: University of Arkansas
Keywords: MV Power Electronic Interfaces for BESS
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Design, prototyping and testing of medium-voltage power electronic interfaces for distribution systems.

Name: Baldwin, Sam
Institution: USDOE/EERE
Keywords: Hydrogen Systems
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Analytical Studies of Long Duration Energy Storage

Name: Bassey, Edaetii
Institution: Nanjing Forestry University
Keywords: Supercapacitors
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Biomass based supercapacitors are renewable energy sources , environmentally friendly and cheap.

Name: Battaglia, Vincent
Institution: LBNL
Keywords: Electrochemical
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Low cost electrochemical energy storage.

Name: Battaglini, John
Institution: Lockheed Martin Energy
Keywords: aqueous flow battery
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Lockheed Martin Energy is commercializing an innovative aqueous redox flow battery that utilizes coordinated chemistry

Name: Ben-Yehuda, Ido
Institution: Augwind Energy Tech
Keywords: Fusion of Pumped hydro &Compressed Air
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Using only closed-circle water & air as raw materials- AirBattery enables high capacity, long duration energy storage.

Name: Berland, Brian
Institution: ITN Energy Systems
Keywords: Flow Batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: We are commercializing flow batteries for medium to long duration energy storage at commercial and grid scale.

Name: Best, Kevin
Institution: RealEnergy
Keywords: SOFC, Seasonal Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Developing Power to Gas (Renewable Hydrogen/RNG) to Power plants – 250MWH dispatched each night for EV truck charging.

Name: Bibeault, Mark Bibeault
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Keywords: Modular Pumped Hydro
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Feasibility studies .12-250 MW up to 10 hrs integrating circular economy,especially with water;brackish, produced, waste

Name: Blackman, Brad
Institution: Duke Energy
Keywords: Daily and Seasonal Energy Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Follow promising LDES technologies particularly those in early commercialization. Inclusions of LDES into planning.

Name: Bohm, Sivasambu
Institution: Arcelor Mittal Global R&D Asturias
Keywords: Li Ion batteries, PEM Fuel cells and VRF
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Creating value-added Li-Ion high energy density Anode materials, Fuel cells components and Graphite based thermal manage

Name: Bohm, Sivasambu
Institution: Arcelor Mittal Global R&D Asturias
Keywords: Li Ion batteries, PEM Fuel cells and VRF
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Energy Storage LiIB High energy density anode on LiIB, Fuel cells BPP & PGM free catalyst. Vanadium Redox flow batteries

Name: Booras, George
Institution: EPRI
Keywords: Non-Battery Energy Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Bulk Energy Storage

Name: Briggs, Justin
Institution: Antora Energy, Inc.
Keywords: thermal, modular, scalable, solid-state
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Commercializing ultra-low-cost (

Name: Briggs, Adam
Institution: Ambri
Keywords: "liquid metal", "calcium", "molten salt"
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Developer of high temp liquid metal batteries with calcium anode, antimony cathode and molten salt electrolyte for LDES

Name: Bustamante, Richard
Institution: Bonneville Power Administration
Keywords: Pumped Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Looking to gain ideas as part of regional transmission planning in the northwest.

Name: Chan-Massey, Betty
Institution: KORE Power
Keywords: #Energystorage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Installed almost 1GW LiIon battery projs that are currently operational across the US and globally. Happy to be GREEN!!

Name: Cheng, Yang-Tse
Institution: University of Kentucky
Keywords: Batteries; degradation;
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Mechanical and electrochemical behavior of materials for electrochemical energy storage; lithium and sodium batteries.

Name: Cheng Zedler, Matt
Institution: Lockheed Martin
Keywords: Flow Battery
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Commercializing utility-scale long duration large capacity flow battery utilizing principles of coordination chemistry

Name: Chico, Fabián
Institution: University of twente
Keywords: Hydrogen- offshore wind integration
Brief Description of Research or Activity: System design of hydrogen integration with Renewables

Name: Childs, Erin
Institution: Strategen
Keywords: CA Long-duration storage needs
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Study quantifying the long-duration energy storage needed to meet California’s policy goals

Name: Cipriano, Greg
Institution: WattJoule
Keywords: vanadium redox flow battery
Brief Description of Research or Activity: ElectriStor: The next generation vanadium redox flow battery platform with improved performance metrics and cost.

Name: Conlon, Bill
Institution: Pintail Power LLC
Keywords: Hybrid Energy Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Bridging renewable and conventional generation with with hybrid energy storage using liquid salt or liquid air media.

Name: Cook-Coyle, Jeff
Institution: Interconnection Systems, Inc. (ISI)
Keywords: co-siting ammonia solar pv
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Developer/EPC. Co-siting solar w/dispatchable & long-duration resources. Maybe coal + anhydrous NH3 closed loop with PV.

Name: Das, Sohan
Institution: EVS, Inc.
Keywords: Flow Batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: I had done a field trip to NEXtracker’s office to take a look at their vanadium flow batteries and was very impressed

Name: Direnzo, Paul
Institution: Peak Hour Power, LLC
Keywords: Pumped Storage Development
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Seeking $ /developers for two 400 MW pumped storage sites in the PJM of east PA. Both w current FERC Pre-Permits.

Name: Egbert, Scott
Institution: NYSERDA
Keywords: Innovation Investment, Carbon free Grid
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Investment in Long Duration Energy Storage Innovation

Name: Feng, Zhili
Institution: WE NEW Energy
Keywords: Hydrogen Storage Systems
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Cost effect, large high pressure storage vessels and system suitable for stationary bulk hydrogen storage

Name: Ferrari, Joseph
Institution: MAN Energy Solutions
Keywords: Molten salt, el-thermal energy storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Multiple forms of long-duration renewable energy storage.

Name: Finn-Foley, Daniel Finn-Foley
Institution: Wood Mackenzie
Keywords: economics, use cases, technology
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Energy storage market research service

Name: Frederick, Morgan
Institution: International Zinc Association
Keywords: Zinc
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Promoting zinc batteries in long duration storage

Name: Geronimo, Mariko
Institution: Lumen Energy Strategy, LLC
Keywords: Evaluation, procurement, planning
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Energy storage evaluation and procurement policy in California

Name: Gerstle, Walter
Institution: CSolPower LLC
Keywords: Thermal Energy Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Rock-based thermal energy storage

Name: Gevorgian, Vahan
Institution: NREL
Keywords: renewbales intgeration
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Leading several DOE project at NREL involving energy storage

Name: Goldin, Jay
Institution: Munich Re
Keywords: Performance, Warranty, Risk, Economics
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Insurance for long term warranties and performance guarantees for energy storage systems.

Name: Goodhand, Robin
Institution: California Energy Commission
Keywords: long-duration storage microgrid hydrogen
Brief Description of Research or Activity: RD&D funding. California Energy Commission Energy Systems Research Office, Energy Technology Systems Integration Unit.

Name: Goodrich, Grant
Institution: Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve University
Keywords: Flow batteries, electrolyte development
Brief Description of Research or Activity: CWRU is host to the DOE EFRC on Breakthrough Electrolytes for Energy Storage (BEES).

Name: Goswamy, Naveen
Institution: Natural Resources Canada, Office of Energy Research and Development
Keywords: R&D innovation funding
Brief Description of Research or Activity: R&D and Demonstration funding in Canada

Name: Goswamy, Naveen
Institution: Natural Resources Canada, OERD
Keywords: Innovation Funding
Brief Description of Research or Activity: S&T advisor, Office of Energy Research and Development, Government of Canada

Name: Graves, Chris
Institution: Noon Energy Inc.
Keywords: electrochemical, energy-dense, weeks
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Noon’s ultra-low-cost, long-duration, energy-dense battery makes renewable energy available 24/7, 365 days a year.

Name: Grieve, James
Institution: MicroEra Power, Inc
Keywords: TES, PCM, heat pump, H2, NH3, rSOFC, CHP
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Smart Thermal Energy Storage for both heat and cooling. Integrates w/ flexible CHP, rSOFC, heat pumps, PVt, geothermal.

Name: Griffith, Kent
Institution: Northwestern University
Keywords: rechargeable batteries; electrochemistry
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Lithium-ion batteries, "beyond Li" batteries, atomic-scale characterization of electrochemical energy storage materials

Name: Gross, Martha
Institution: Sandia National Labs
Keywords: battery sodium molten
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Basic research of low temperature molten sodium batteries for grid-scale, long-duration energy storage.

Name: Grunewald, Grant
Institution: EnerSys
Keywords: Lithium Ion and Lead Acid Batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Developing and deploying lithium ion and lead acid batteries into grid level energy storage systems.

Name: Guptasarma, Prasenjit
Institution: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Keywords: LDES- low cost Battery cathodes
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Li, Co-free battery, 200 mAh/g, LDES > 6 h, $20/kWh, supply chain stability stability, domestic manufact & recycling

Name: Hale, Zack
Institution: S&P Global Market Intelligence
Keywords: Policy
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Hello, I cover energy for S&P Global Market Intelligence — is it too late to register for this event as press?

Name: Ho, Clifford
Institution: Sandia National Laboratories
Keywords: Thermal energy storage; LCOS; policy
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Thermal energy storage using solid particles, rocks, gravel, and other cheap earth abundant materials

Name: Horton, Rebekah
Institution: Lockheed Martin
Keywords: GridStar Flow, Flow Battery, ESS
Brief Description of Research or Activity: GridStar® Flow is a coordination chemistry redox flow battery designed for long-duration energy storage applications.

Name: Howell, David
Institution: US DOE
Keywords: Electric vehicle batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Director, DOE EERE Vehicle Technologies Office

Name: Howie, Jonathan
Institution: EnBW
Keywords: offshore wind
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Interested in pairing OSW and long duration BESS

Name: Hume, Scott
Institution: Electric Power Research Institute
Keywords: Thermal Pumped Heat Mechanical Chemical
Brief Description of Research or Activity: EPRI has a program focused on Mid- to Long- Duration energy storage research.

Name: Imhoff, Carl
Institution: PNNL
Keywords: Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Sector Manager

Name: Jakob, Frank Jakob
Institution: Black & Veatch
Keywords: Intra-day vs Inter-day
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Technical: grid stability, flexibility & resilience. Economic: monitize benefits of LDES.

Name: Jayathilake, Buddhinie Srimali Jayathilake
Institution: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Keywords: Flow battery, Seasonal Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: We have been working on low-cost flow batteries and microbial CO2 conversion systems for large-scale energy storage.

Name: Jenkins, Roger
Institution: Lockheed Martin
Keywords: Redox flow battery
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Redox flow battery technology

Name: Jones, Craig
Institution: Forever Energy
Keywords: Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Business Plan

Name: Kapner, Mark
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Keywords: hydrogen
Brief Description of Research or Activity: We recently completed a study to characterize the long-duration storage requirements of ERCOT in the next five years

Name: Kaur, Sumanjeet
Institution: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Keywords: Thermal Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: work on low and high temperature thermal storage.

Name: Kolker, Amanda
Institution: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Keywords: Underground Thermal Energy Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: The geothermal team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is interested in Underground Thermal Energy Storage

Name: Kolln, Jaime
Institution: Pacific Northwest National Lab
Keywords: Standards
Brief Description of Research or Activity: increase adoption of energy storage through standardization

Name: Kumar, Rohit
Institution: CES
Keywords: .
Brief Description of Research or Activity: .

Name: Larson, Tim
Institution: Ross Strategic
Keywords: green hydrogen,
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Supporting the Climate Investment Funds Global Energy Storage Partnership

Name: Law, Samuel
Institution: IHA
Keywords: Pumped Hydro
Brief Description of Research or Activity: International cooperation and sharing of knowledge.

Name: Leighty, William
Institution: The Leighty Foundation
Keywords: Pipeline packing, hydrogen, salt cavern
Brief Description of Research or Activity: https://vimeo.com/301111544 www.leightyfoundation.org/earth.php Pipelined Hydrogen and Ammonia C-free Fuels "At Scale"

Name: Leighty, William
Institution: The Leighty Foundation
Keywords: Pipeline packing, hydrogen, salt cavern
Brief Description of Research or Activity: https://vimeo.com/301111544 Deep Decarbonization of Total Global Energy: Hydrogen and Ammonia C-free Fuels "At Scale"

Name: Leufkens, Paul
Institution: Southern Research
Keywords: testing – monitoring – stacked benefits
Brief Description of Research or Activity: research and test new ES technologies on system level. real time stacked benefits is key for success

Name: Leung, Kevin Leung
Institution: Sandia National Laboratories
Keywords: Lithium ion Batteries; other batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Electronic structure modeling of battery interfaces.

Name: Lim, Kean Long
Institution: Fuel Cell Institute, The National University of Malaysia
Keywords: Hydrogen storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Metal hydrides research and development targeted in stationary and transportation applications.

Name: Liu, Nian
Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Keywords: zinc; flow battery
Brief Description of Research or Activity: structure design of zinc anode; novel chemistry and cell configuration of redox flow batteries

Name: Lu, Lucy
Institution: Ford Motor Company
Keywords: Battery
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Interested in long-duration storage in general

Name: Lu, Xiaonan
Institution: Temple University
Keywords: Hybrid Energy Storage Grid Integration
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Grid integration of hybrid energy storage (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors, thermal storage) through microgrids

Name: Luo, Chibulu
Institution: World Bank
Keywords: emerging markets
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Relevance and applicability of long-duration storage in emerging markets.

Name: Malmali, Mahdi
Institution: Texas Tech University
Keywords: Thermochemical Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Seasonal storage in form of liquids – Designing processes that can be used for small scale storage (particularly ammonia

Name: Manoharan, Yogesh
Institution: university of memphis
Keywords: energy utilization
Brief Description of Research or Activity: phd student working on energy utilization and optimization

Name: Manwaring, Michael
Institution: McMillen Jacobs Associates
Keywords: Advanced pumped storage development
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Working on the licensing/design of multiple PSH projects, former Chair of NHA’s Pumped Storage Development Counsel

Name: Maraschky, Adam
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Keywords: batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Fundamental research on metal anodes and mass transport to electrodepositing systems.

Name: Marshak, Michael
Institution: University of Colorado Boulder
Keywords: Flow batteries, metal-organic, chelate
Brief Description of Research or Activity: My research team has developed the highest voltage aqueous flow batteries using low cost metals and chelates.

Name: Martin, Steve
Institution: Iowa State University of Science & Technology
Keywords: Sodium battery research
Brief Description of Research or Activity: I am a professor of Materials Science and have a group of 15 students conducting sodium battery research for grid scale

Name: Mcaleenan, Michael
Institution: KaZaK Technologies
Keywords: Rapid cycle, high energy denisty
Brief Description of Research or Activity: KaZaK is currently funded under an ONR Phase II SBIR to develop a rapid cycle, high energy density MW energy storage.

Name: Meeker, Rick
Institution: Nhu Energy
Keywords: integration, control, grid services
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Delivering flexible DER, with storage, for local and wide-area value through de-risked advanced integration and control.

Name: Meugniot, Joaquin
Institution: NATURGY
Keywords: Battery usage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Energy operation in Puerto Rico

Name: Milostan, Cathy
Institution: Argonne National Laboratory
Keywords: PSH, valuation, resiliency,cost/benefits
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Valuation of pumped storage hydropower vs stationery storage options for power resiliency for renewables and grid mgmt

Name: Moslehi, Salim
Institution: Arizona State University
Keywords: hydrogen
Brief Description of Research or Activity: R&D energy analysis at Arizona State University

Name: Negash, Ahlmahz
Institution: Tacoma Power
Keywords: Liquid Air Energy Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Demand response, liquid air energy storage, resource adequacy

Name: Ortiz-Rodriguez, Samira E
Institution: University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Keywords: storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Communities

Name: Oshiro, Dean
Institution: Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.
Keywords: Batteries, Hydrogen
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Island network generation planning working towards 100% renewable by 2045

Name: Peck, Dave
Institution: CPUC
Keywords: 8 hours
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Energy Regulation

Name: Peever, Scott
Institution: e-Zinc
Keywords: zinc, resiliency, diesel displacement
Brief Description of Research or Activity: By "metallizing energy", e-Zinc is positioned to provide the world’s most economic form of long-duration energy storage.

Name: Perry, Mike
Institution: Largo Clean Energy (LCE)
Keywords: Commercialization of Grid-Scale LDES
Brief Description of Research or Activity: A key question that DOE should help answer:
What are the price points for LDES applications?
(2010 reports are outdated)

Name: Phillips, Robert
Institution: Self
Keywords: System load minimum
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Completed a study on how a battery storage system can help an electric utility manage their system peak and min. loads.

Name: Phillips, Robert
Institution: Self
Keywords: Inverter, back-up time, black start
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Completed a cost/benefit analysis of a 3MW, behind the meter energy storage proposal for a local community college.

Name: Price, Anthony
Institution: Swanbarton Ltd – The International Flow Battery Forum
Keywords: Flow Battery Commercialisation
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Organiser of the International Flow Battery Forum

Name: Prochnik, Julia
Institution: Long Duration Energy Storage Association of CA
Keywords: ALL types of LDES, modeling, procurement
Brief Description of Research or Activity: We look forward to work with you more on all things long duration energy storage.

Name: Rooney, Michael
Institution: Rye Development
Keywords: Closed loop pumped storage hydropower
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Rye development is advancing 1600 MW of closed-loop pumped storage projects in the Pacific Northwest.

Name: Rose, Luke
Institution: The Rose Company, LLC
Keywords: molten salt, pumped storage hydropower
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Supporting next-gen tech developers in policy and regulatory affairs.

Name: Rosener, Kirk
Institution: Technology Management Applications
Keywords: Active Electret Based Energy Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Electret Energy Storage System – combined power/energy density storage. See US patent 10,672,564.

Name: Ross, Rhonda
Institution: Michigan State University
Keywords: batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Energy policy

Name: Saber, Ahmed
Institution: ETAP
Keywords: Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: N/A

Name: San Marchi, Chris San Marchi
Institution: Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore
Keywords: hydrogen embrittlement
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Hydrogen Effects on Materials Laboratory; structural integrity of hydrogen systems and pipelines (esp, high-pressure)

Name: Sankarasubramanian, Shri
Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Keywords: redox flow batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Invention and development of the cost-effective, AEM-enabled titanium-cerium electrode-decoupled redox flow battery.

Name: Saraidaridis, James
Institution: Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Keywords: Redox Flow Batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Low-cost flow battery chemistries including sulfur-manganese and high voltage aqueous coordination complexes.

Name: Sattler, Christian
Institution: German Aerospace Center – DLR
Keywords: solar, thermo-chemical, sulfur, redox
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Storage of concentrated solar energy in fuels and long-duration storage materials

Name: Savage, Bruce
Institution: Idaho State University
Keywords: Pumped Hydro, Combined Hydro
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Working to bring pumped hydro to the distributed scale through innovative storage solutions that are modular &scaleable.

Name: Schilling, Cameron
Institution: National Hydropower Association
Keywords: pumped hydro
Brief Description of Research or Activity: I staff NHA’s pumped storage development council.

Name: Schneider, Thomas
Institution: Retired PSEG, EPRI, BREL
Keywords: System Analysis, Economics
Brief Description of Research or Activity: IEEE PES support of DOE, QER, assessment utility applications, first EPRI PM Energy Storage, technologies and systems

Name: Schneider, Jan-Martin
Institution: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE)
Keywords: Electric-Thermal Energy Storage (ETES)
Brief Description of Research or Activity: -130 MWh ETES demonstrator operational
-Development of GWh storage
-2nd-life-option for conventional power plants

Name: Schroeder, Nathan Schroeder
Institution: Sandia National Labs
Keywords: Thermal Energy Storage, Packed Bed
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Generation 3 Concentrating Solar Power utilizing solid particles as the heat transfer fluid and thermal energy storage.

Name: Self, Ethan
Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Keywords: electrochemical systems, batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Research (funded by OE) focuses on new materials and lab-scale system engineering for nonaqueous Na-based flow batteries

Name: Seshadri, Kaushik
Institution: RRC Power and Energy
Keywords: Flow Batteries Fuel Cells Li Ion
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Lead BESS Engineer, EPC Americas

Name: Shen, Jian-Ping
Institution: RTI International Inc
Keywords: Materials, robust storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Material for robust energy storage (electrochemical and hydrogen) with high efficiency and low cost

Name: Shen, Jian-Ping
Institution: RTI International Inc
Keywords: Materials, robust, cost effective,
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Materials and process for clean and low-carbon energy

Name: Shin, Jun
Institution: Amazon
Keywords: Hydrogen fuel cell plus Lithium ion
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Business Development

Name: Shrestha, Rakish
Institution: Sandia National Laboratories
Keywords: Chemical, Hydrogen, Fuel cell
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Understanding the effect of hydrogen embrittlement and material compatibility.

Name: Smith, Clif
Institution: Xcel Energy Inc.
Keywords: education
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Transmission Planning

Name: Spoerke, Erik
Institution: Sandia National Laboratories
Keywords: Grid Scale Batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: R&D around sodium-based batteries; solid state electrolytes; flow batteries; alkaline batteries; biomimetic storage

Name: Stumpf, Andrew
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keywords: thermal storage; underground; geothermal
Brief Description of Research or Activity: – underground thermal energy storage (UTES)
– combine compressed air storage with UTES
– combine solar energy with UTES

Name: Subramanian, Venkat
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Keywords: Degradation, lithium-ion, redox flow
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Model-based BMS of current and next-generation batteries. Moving boundaries, mesoscale and multiscale models

Name: Supak, Kevin
Institution: Southwest Research Institute
Keywords: gravity hydro thermal
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Conducted studies in pump storage hydropower and gravity-based storage. Have experimental capabilities in both of these

Name: Tabares, Paulo Cesar
Institution: Colorado School of Mines
Keywords: thermal storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: biulding/community energy storage

Name: Verdad, Juan
Institution: Verdad Advisors, LLC
Keywords: DOE’s budget for EES R&D
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Why doesn’t OE’s EES Program have a much bigger budget?
Why doesn’t the OE Program use competitive solicitations?

Name: Viswanathan, Vilayanur
Institution: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Keywords: CAES, PSH, Hydrogen, FLow
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Performing cost-performance analysis of energy storage in 2-24h range funded by US DOE Energy Storage Grand Challenge

Name: Vohra, Aref
Institution: Duke Energy
Keywords: DOE
Brief Description of Research or Activity: DOE

Name: Voss, David
Institution: Solar Turbines
Keywords: Pumped Heat Energy Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Using turbomachinery for long duration energy storage, ~10 MW

Name: Wackerly, Ryan
Institution: Echogen Power Systems
Keywords: sCO2 Electrothermal Energy Storage
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Developing sCO2 based Electrothermal Energy Storage for 25-100MW applications, 10-200 hours.

Name: Wang, Xingchao
Institution: Colorado School of Mines
Keywords: TES, Power Cycles
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Xingchao Wang is current working as a post-doc fellow at Colorado School of Mines and under a joint appointment at NREL

Name: Westlake, Brittany
Institution: EPRI
Keywords: Batteries, Hydrogen, Thermal, Gravity
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Current and emerging energy storage technologies for grid and transportation applications. Hydrogen Electrolysis.

Name: Wu, Di
Institution: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Keywords: optimization, control, resilience, tool
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Value proposition, analytical methods, and evaluation tools for various energy storage technologies

Name: Wu, Qingliu
Institution: Western Michigan University
Keywords: battery, material
Brief Description of Research or Activity: development of advanced materials and manufacutering process for energy storage

Name: Xiao, Steve
Institution: Savannah River National Laboratory
Keywords: solar, wind, efficiency, grid stabilizat
Brief Description of Research or Activity: The most benefits of energy storage are utilization of intermittent solar and wind energy.

Name: Yang, Huan
Institution: Shell
Keywords: utility scale, capital cot
Brief Description of Research or Activity: I am interested in the BESS cost forecast

Name: Yee, Loon
Institution: CA Energy Commission
Keywords: Non-lithium ion batteries
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Microgrids and energy storage systems

Name: Yin, Peng
Institution: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Keywords: Liquid air; Hydrogen
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Grid scale energy storage through thermal process.

Name: Zamgochian, Aram
Institution: ESS Tech, Inc.
Keywords: Iron Flow Battery
Brief Description of Research or Activity: ESS Inc. manufactures low-cost, long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale applications.

Name: Zeinal Kheiri, Sevda
Institution: university of utah
Keywords: Renewable energy, cost-effective
Brief Description of Research or Activity: Modeling inverter-based resources for various aspects of grid operation such as frequency regulation