2025 Agenda

*Please note this is a tentative agenda and may be subject to change*

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

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Topic	Presenter/Organization
Roundtable: ES Program Managers	Ray Byrne, Sandia National Laboratories Mali Balasubramanian, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Patrick Balducci, Argonne National Laboratory David Reed, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Session 1: Next Generation, Large Scale Energy Storage

Session Lead: Erik Spoerke

Topic	Presenter	Organization
Opening Remarks	Erik Spoerke	US Department of Energy
Brief Overview: Next Generation, Large-Scale Energy Storage Technologies	Will McNamara	Sandia National Laboratories
Redox Flow Batteries Utilizing Soluble Iron Complexes	Aaron Hollas	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dendrite-Resistant Solid Sodium Anodes to Enable Long-Duration Solid-State Sodium Batteries	Mark Weller	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Design of Gel Polymer Electrolytes and Performance Assessment of Electrocatalysts for Durable Zn–Air Batteries	Ruhul Amin	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Incorporating Multivariate Weather Hazards into System Planning with Energy Storage	Neal Mann	Argonne National Laboratory
Q&A

Session 2: Flow Batteries

Session Lead: Reed Wittman

Topic	Presenter	Organization
A Primer on Office of Electricity Funded Flow Battery Research	Reed Wittman	Sandia National Laboratories
Material Development for Redox Flow Batteries at PNNL	Wei Wang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Fluorenone-based Material Development for Redox Flow Batteries	Ruozhu Feng	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Development of Cost-effective Hydrocarbon Membranes and Electrolytes for High-Energy Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries	Guang Yang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Flow Battery Research at Sandia National Laboratories	Sam Macchi	Sandia National Laboratories
An Industry Perspective on the State-of-the-Art RFBs	Mike Perry/Brian Berland	Storion
Q&A

Session 3: Demonstration Projects

Session Lead: Waylon Clark

Topic	Presenter	Organization
Energy Storage Demonstration Projects Session	Waylon Clark	Sandia National Laboratories
ARES Lessons Learned	Don Bender	ARES
Energy Storage Component and System Level Codes, Standards, & Regulations	David Rosewater	Sandia National Laboratories
Washington Dept. of Commerce Energy Storage Deployments	Diane Baldwin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Energy Storage Interconnection Codes and Standards	Michael Ropp	Sandia National Laboratories
Q&A

Topic	Presenter	Organization
Sponsorship Remarks	Jeff Reeves	The Flow Battery Industry Group, a part of BCI

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Session 4: Safety and Reliability

Session Lead: Loraine Torres-Castro

Topic	Presenter	Organization
Safety and Reliability of Energy Storage Systems	Loraine Torres-Castro	Sandia National Laboratories
Understanding BESS Fire Hazards at the System Level with Experiments and Modeling	Andrew Kurzawski	Sandia National Laboratories
Reducing Cost and Increasing Confidence Through Interoperability	Jaime Kolln	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Acoustic Emission During Thermal Runaway Induced by Mechanical Indentation and Thermal Abuse	Hsin Wang	Oak Ridge National Laboratories
Performance and Degradation of Li-ion Batteries from Cells to Systems	Yuliya Preger	Sandia National Laboratories
Microcell DSC Analysis of Si-Graphite Anodes Paired with High Energy Density Cathodes	Bryan Wygant	Sandia National Laboratories
Q&A

Session 5: Analytics and Tools

Session Lead: Patrick Balducci

Topic	Presenter	Organization
A Brief Overview of Ongoing Energy Storage Analytics Research at Argonne National Laboratory	Patrick Balducci	Argonne National Laboratory
Advanced Storage Planning for a Cost-Effective and Resilient Grid	Konstantinos Oikonomou	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Model Selection Platform for Energy Storage	Dexin Wang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Development of Computational Framework for BESS Aging and Degradation for Grid Use Cases	Srikanth Allu	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sandia Energy Storage Analytics – FY25 Updates	Tu Nguyen	Sandia National Laboratories
EverBESS: Evaluating End-of-life-Management for Battery Energy Storage Systems	Jakob Elias	Argonne National Laboratory
Q&A

Session 6: Regulatory

Session Lead: Jeremy Twitchell

Topic	Presenter
Energy Storage Regulatory Research and Outreach	Jeremy Twitchell
Reducing Investment Risk in Energy Storage Financing	Richard Baxter
Emerging Finance Models	Dan Boff
Siting and Permitting Energy Storage	Devyn Powell
State and Federal Regulatory Support	Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories Dylan Poindexter, Sandia National Laboratories Shiv Mani, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Todd Olinsky-Paul, CESA/ESTAP
Q&A

Session 7: Sodium Batteries

Session Lead: Leo Small

Topic	Presenter	Organization
Sodium Batteries Session Overview	Leo Small	Sandia National Laboratories
Sodium-Ion Battery Development	Fred Omenya	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Intermediate Temperature Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Technologies for Grid Energy Storage Applications	Guosheng Li	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries Containing Sodium Metal Anodes and Sodium Thiophosphate Catholytes	Ethan Self	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Calorimetric Investigation of Heat Flows in Na-ion Battery Materials	Alex Bates	Sandia National Laboratories
Process R&D for Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials Manufacturing	Runming Tao	Argonne National Laboratory
Understanding Na-ion’s Roadmaps to Competitiveness	Adrian Yao	Stanford-SLAC
Q&A

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Session 8: Power Electronics

Session Lead: Stan Atcitty

Topic	Presenter	Organization
Energy Storage Power Electronics Program	Stan Atcitty	Sandia National Laboratories
Power Electronics Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Michael Starke	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Modeling, Control, and Implementation of Next-Generation Storage Systems	Jacob Mueller	Sandia National Laboratories
Hybrid Battery Energy Storage System: Enabling Safer Controls and Cybersecurity with Battery Modeling	Victoria O’Brien	Sandia National Laboratories
Enhancing Energy Storage Power Electronics Design through Artificial Intelligence	Alex Huang	UT Austin
Reliable Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing System for Early Warning of Failure in Energy Storage Systems	Nick Frank	Sensible Photonics
Q&A

Session 9: Grid Reliability and Resilience

Session Lead: Diane Baldwin

Topic	Presenter	Organization
Grid Reliability and Resilience Panel Overview	Diane Baldwin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Voltage Support Using Battery Storage for KPP	Christine Holland	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Enhancing Grid Reliability using Energy Storage Systems	Atri Bera	Sandia National Laboratories
Energy Storage Benefit Quantification for Grid Reliability and Resilience	Buxin She	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
BESS Applications to Enhance Transmission and Distribution System Performance	Alok Bharati	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Q&A

Session 10: Zinc and Lead Batteries

Session Lead: Esther Takeuchi

Topic	Presenter	Organization
Opening Remarks	Esther Takeuchi	Stony Brook University
Origins of Positive Electrode Failure Modes in Lead Acid Batteries	Tim Fister	Argonne National Laboratory
Advancing Lead Acid Batteries for Grid Resilience	Ajay Karakoti	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Latest Developments in Mild Acidic Zinc Batteries at PNNL	Matt Fayette	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Aqueous Zn-Based Batteries	Calvin Quilty	Sandia National Laboratories
Engineering Zn and Mn Anodes for Aqueous Batteries	Nian Liu	Georgia Tech
Development of Copper Oxide Cathodes for Rechargeable Alkaline Zinc Batteries	Josh Gallaway	Northwestern
Q&A