Agenda

Posters

Technical posters and poster sessions during peer review concisely share research project’s technical goals, approach, progress, and impacts. The list of technical posters and their key points shared at the 2026 annual meeting and peer review is available below. To access a poster as PDF, click the poster title.

Session Topic:

Session Topic	Title	What to Know	Author Name
Analytics and Tools	Adaptive Learning-Based Battery Management for Grid-Scale Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries	Smarter battery management strategies can reduce losses in vanadium redox flow systems by 40%.	Avijit Das
Analytics and Tools	Computationally Tractable Battery Degradation Models for Optimization and Control	A faster (computationally-efficient) battery degradation model helps operators balance market revenue with system life.	Hyungjin Choi
Analytics and Tools	Dispatch-Routing Optimization of Mobile Energy Storage for Spatiotemporal Arbitrage	Value from mobility: physically transporting grid storage can increase annual revenues by almost 10%.	Mukesh Gautam
Analytics and Tools	Energy Storage Impacts in Critical Infrastructure: An Assessment Guide for Developers and Practitioners	A guide to help quantify benefits of behind-the-meter BESS at resilience hubs and critical infrastructure.	Lin Zeng
Analytics and Tools	Energy Storage Interconnection	Available data show that hybrid storage projects receive interconnections faster than standalone storage.	Aaqib Peerzada
Analytics and Tools	EVERBESS: End of Life Considerations for Battery Energy Storage Systems	EverBESS helps quantify the non-trivial decomissioning, transport, and recycling or disposal costs for BESS systems.	Jakob Elias
Analytics and Tools	From Analysis to Deployment: Energy Storage for Tribal Resilience at Picuris and Laguna Pueblos	Deciding to build: how storage-focused capacity building helps two New Mexico communities procure storage.	Rodrigo Trevizan
Analytics and Tools	Global Energy Storage Database (GESDB): Automated Data Extraction and Validation Pipeline	New large language model-based process helps improve data quality and update speed in the widely-cited Global Energy Storage Database.	Ujjwol Tamrakar
Analytics and Tools	Grid Reliability Enhancement Using Energy Storage Systems	By integrating battery degradation behaviors, ProGRESS helps planners perform more realistic reliability studies.	Atri Bera
Analytics and Tools	High-Fidelity Controller Hardware in the Loop Platform for Energy Storage Control Design and Testing	As millisecond-scale fluctuations increase on the grid, this new Controller Hardware-In-The-Loop capability can validate how storage improves reliability.	Niranjan Bhujel
Analytics and Tools	Integrated QUEST Toolbox for Coordinated Grid Planning with Energy Storage	The AI-powered QuESt Workspace helps grid planners find solutions faster by integrating three typically siloed models: expansion planning, resource adequacy, and production cost.	Dilip Pandit
Analytics and Tools	Long-Term Capacity Expansion Planning for Energy Storage to Support Large Loads & Reliability	Out of capacity for large loads? Out of options for grid expansion? QuESt can find more hidden solutions.	Cody Newlun
Analytics and Tools	Model Selection Platform	Find your match, fast: the model selection platform has saved users thousands of hours of researching the best energy storage tool for their unique situation.	Dexin Wang
Analytics and Tools	Multi-Modal AI Agents for Advanced Data Analytics	Analysis without jargon: how AI enables plain-language queries of complex battery data.	Sel Ly
Analytics and Tools	QuEStPCM: A Production Cost Modeling Tool with High-Fidelity Models of Energy Storage Systems	Optimizing optimizations: new algorithm solves week-long system and storage dispatch problems 12x faster than current methods.	Dilip Pandit
Analytics and Tools	Recommended Practice for Energy Storage Management Systems (ESMS) in Grid Applications	New IEEE standard on energy storage management systems will enhance safety and visibility of grid-connected storage.	David Schoenwald
Analytics and Tools	Resource Evaluation for Storage Energy and Reliability Value Enhancement (RESERVE)	RESERVE: respect operational constraints so that storage systems can deliver reliability services when called.	Ryan Elliott
Analytics and Tools	Storage Sizing and Placement Tool in Distribution Grids (QUEST Microgrid-SSIM)	QuESt module helps planners solve more distribution circuit problems with fewer DER and storage assets.	Ujjwol Tamrakar
Analytics and Tools	Techno-Economic Pathways to Low-Cost Lead Batteries for Grid Energy Storage	Lead-ing the way: Quantifying the current (and potential future reduction in) costs of lead-acid batteries deployed on the grid.	Xu Ma
Flow Batteries	Bifunctional (Janus) Flexible and Scalable Separators for Sodium–Sulfur Batteries	New electrospun separators will be more flexible and configurable than current ceramic separators used in sodium-sulfur batteries.	Georgios Polyzos
Flow Batteries	Development of a Stable, Highly Water-Soluble Bi Redox Molecule for Aqueous Flow Batteries	Synthesizing to secure supply chains: a new molecule matches Vanadium performance without the cost or supply drawbacks.	Samantha Macchi
Flow Batteries	Enabling Long Duration Metal Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries	Keep your deposits off my collector: the key to enabling long duration metal hybrid redox flow batteries.	Matthew Vasil
Flow Batteries	Ion Transport and Nanoscale Structure in Sodium Flow Batteries	Ion speed: how a supercomputer pinpointed the optimal carbon fiber design to move ions in sodium flow batteries.	Monojoy Goswami
Flow Batteries	Transport-Controlled Sodium–Polysulfide Flow Batteries for Reliable, Low Cost Long-Duration Grid Storage	Sodium-Polysulfide Batteries: improvements in catholyte, electrolyte, and separator performance show a continuing pathway to competitiveness.	Guang Yang
Grid Integration and Field Validation	BEACON – Battery Energy Analytics & Collection Online Network	Collecting BESS data "anytime, everywhere" will help the industry spot patterns before they become problems.	Eriel Cabrera
Grid Integration and Field Validation	CEC-CRADA Update on Long Duration Energy Storage Technologies Analysis	What's the most promising storage technology? This review helps readers develop their own answer.	Ramesh Koripella
Grid Integration and Field Validation	Deployment of Battery Storage for Energy Security at Pine Point School	Cells make cents: energy storage deployed to help remote Hawaiian homes cut 80% off their electricity bills.	Henry Guan
Grid Integration and Field Validation	Deployment of Battery Storage Systems for Off-Grid Applications on Moloka‘i	A battery goes to school and finds $1.3M in lifetime energy savings.	Henry Guan
Grid Integration and Field Validation	ESMO Tool for Techno-Economic Analysis and Outage Mitigation in Rural Microgrids: El Rito West Microgrid Case Study	Energy Storage Microgrid Optimization (ESMO) says KCEC can improve reliability metrics by 49%-91% with an optimally-sized battery.	Alberto Grimaldi
Grid Resilience and Reliability	AI Data Center Duty Cycle Development	Overcoming AI industry secrecy around rack-level consumption, newly-developed representative duty cycles can validate how batteries reduce data center grid impacts.	Alasdair Crawford
Grid Resilience and Reliability	Distributed Control for Interlinked DC Microgrids	Newly-developed control framework helps microgrid interconnections operate reliably through a wide range of adverse conditions.	Kaushik Rajashekara
Grid Resilience and Reliability	Energy Storage Reliability Standards Activities	Standards alliance solves the issues with "too many standards."	Michael Poplawski
Grid Resilience and Reliability	Impact Assessments for Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage: Early Outcomes and Cross-Site Lessons from Molokai, Savannah, and Talent	Quantifying community storage demo benefits (affordability, reliability, etc.) has led to interest and waitlists for additional deployments.	Adrienne Rackley
Grid Resilience and Reliability	Interoperability Framework for Energy Storage System	Where does this plug in? A standards-based BESS integration template can help reduce deployment costs.	Roshan Kini
Grid Resilience and Reliability	Spatial Risk Analysis to Support Resilience-Oriented Energy Storage Planning for KCEC	A data-driven resilience framework helps KCEC design storage and microgrid solutions to serve its rural, hazard-exposed service territory.	Rodrigo Trevizan
Grid Resilience and Reliability	Storage-Enhanced Grid-Strength-Constrained UC	More than energy: Optimal BESS scheduling can include inertia/damping functions to keep interconnections stable.	Wei Wang
Grid Resilience and Reliability	Understanding Battery Degradation for Grid Energy Storage Systems	Mid-life batteries need a full checkup before being safely placed back into service.	Marm Dixit
Next Generation, Large Scale Energy Storage	Assessing the Reliability Contributions of Energy Storage as a Transmission Asset	A new framework evaluates storage using transmission metrics, and shows how a 100MW 4-hour BESS can provide equivalent reliability benefits to a 100MW line upgrade.	Zhi Zhou
Next Generation, Large Scale Energy Storage	Freeze-Thaw Aluminum Battery: Suppression of Self-Discharge via Thermal Decoupling	Frozen in time: a new phase-change electrolyte reduces self-discharge in low-cost aluminum batteries.	Henry Han
Next Generation, Large Scale Energy Storage	Iron-Based Soluble Electrolytes For Redox Flow Systems	Iron-based redox flow batteries: Lower cost than vanadium if plating and stability drawbacks can be solved.	Gabriel Nambafu
Next Generation, Large Scale Energy Storage	Moderate-Temperature Molten Salt Electrolyte for an Aluminium-Based Battery for Energy Storage	"Can" aluminum work as a battery? Initial tests show promise as a molten-salt electrolyte.	CY Kwok
Next Generation, Large Scale Energy Storage	Progress and Challenges for Sodium Solid-State Batteries for Safe, Low-Cost Stationary Energy Storage	Doubled anode current density in a prototype sodium solid-state battery, getting 20% of the way to grid-viable performance metrics.	Mark Weller
Next Generation, Large Scale Energy Storage	Telluride Alloying Stabilizes Manganese Anodes for Aqueous Mn-Ion Batteries	Stabilizing Manganese for use in high-capacity batteries.	Jieun Kang
Next Generation, Large Scale Energy Storage	Understanding the Impact of Hydrogen evolution and Crossover on Performance of Vanadium Redox Flow Battery	A battery twin has confirmed intuitive (uneven flow reduces capacity) and non-intuitive (hydrogen evolution is good for battery life?) vanadium redox-flow battery behaviors.	Johnson Dhanasekaran
Power Electronics	A Novel Single-Stage Single-Phase DAB-Type Bidirectional Converter with Simple Control	Bridge to the future: a new simplified power converter design matches the industry's best efficiency while doubling power density.	Peng Han
Power Electronics	Advanced Magnetic Materials for High Frequency Link Converters and an Agile Grid	Enhancing iron nitride to replace more expensive magnetic materials through milling and lamination.	Todd Monson
Power Electronics	Circuit-Agnostic Lifetime Predictions for Sustained Battery Operation	The spice of converter life: Anticipating power converter failures before they become a BESS-wide problem.	Brian Rummel
Power Electronics	Controller Hardware in the Loop of Power Electronic for Flow Batteries: Integration and Coordination	The Goldilocks validator: A control hardware-in-the-loop platform provides more accurate results than traditional models without the expense of full flow battery systems.	Renata Kimpara
Power Electronics	Disturbance Detection with Modeling: Fitting an Accurate Equivalent Circuit Model	Is something wrong? Comparing expected and actual battery parameters to detect cyberattacks.	Victoria O’Brien
Power Electronics	Grid Forming Batteries: DC-AC Converter Prototype	Cooperation is the answer: a new hierarchical framework helps multiple BESS converters play nicely to support grid-forming inverters.	Oindrilla Dutta
Power Electronics	Medium-voltage Power Electronics for Grid-tied Energy Storage Applications	Fast storage needs fast converters: How a new Silicon Carbide architecture will improve performance and efficiency.	Pengyu Fu
Power Electronics	Optimal Energy Utilization of Grid Energy Storage Systems	New framework can enable more accurate and nonintrusive battery State of Health estimates without additional hardware.	Kaushik Rajashekara
Power Electronics	PCBSchemaGen: LLM-Driven Automated Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Schematic Design	Superpowered circuit design: a new LLM-driven tool designs power conversion printed circuit boards 37x faster than humans.	Peng Han
Power Electronics	Power Conversion System Design and Materials – Modeling and Control	Watts without the wait: Bypassing long transformer lead times with commodity-component-based high-frequency transformers.	Felipe Palacios
Power Electronics	Single-Stage Energy Storage Converter Interface using Bidirectional Semiconductor Devices	Now validated at low voltages (10-30V) and power (<100W), bidirectional semiconductors can enable cheaper and simpler power conversion (with 50% fewer components).	Alvaro Cardoza
Power Electronics	Storage Integrated AC-AC Converters	Less is more: a new battery-integrated converter design enhances a distribution-level power converter's ability to maintain reliability.	Johnathan Kimball
Safety and Reliability	Aging & Diagnostics Development of All Vanadium Redox Flow Battery	A flow battery Fitbit: developing diagnostics to track aging of redox flow batteries.	Samantha Macchi
Safety and Reliability	Battery Health Monitoring Using Unsupervised AI	AI algorithm teaches itself how to identify cell state-of-health markers.	Nimat Shamim
Safety and Reliability	Battery Reliability Test Lab at the Grid Storage Launchpad	If you can charge it, GSL can validate it.	Ed Thomsen
Safety and Reliability	Expansion of Battery Archive – A Public Data Repository for Energy Storage Evaluation	Adding calorimetry data and a machine learning pipeline will build on the $250M of value that the battery archive has already delivered to industry.	Lara Kassabian
Safety and Reliability	Exploring Low-Temperature Performance of Na-Ion Cells to Support New ESS Applications	Can sodium cells outperform lithium at low temperatures? New test data shows mixed results.	Yuliya Preger
Safety and Reliability	Impact of Module Configuration on Battery Performance and Degradation	New model points to how alternate module configurations can eke more performance out of battery cells.	Yuliya Preger
Safety and Reliability	Integrated Modeling and Experimental Approach for Evaluating Risks in Large BESS	We went boom so you don't have to: Real-world battery propagation and explosion testing enhances future safety models.	Emily Kowalchuk
Safety and Reliability	Mechanistic Assessment of High-Energy and Earth-Abundant Battery Chemistries	Birds of a feather: Like Lithium NMC, Sodium NFM batteries are tuned for energy density. Coin cell analysis and modeling show they exhibit similar failure mechanisms, too.	Nathan Johnson
Safety and Reliability	Multi-Scale Thermal Characterization of Silicon-Graphite	Uncovering how silicon and graphite content influence when thermal runaway events start and how damaging those events can become.	Bryan Wygant
Safety and Reliability	Predicting Thermal Runaway Vent Gases: Addressing Flammability and Explosion Risks	Clarity in smoke: improving the ability to predict gas composition from battery vent events.	John Hewson
Safety and Reliability	Safety Enhancement of Energy Storage Systems Through Power Electronics Integration	Wireless is safer: Replacing live wires with inductive coupling can significantly increase BESS worker safety.	Marcio Magri Kimpara
Safety and Reliability	Thermodynamic Diagnostics of Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Battery Degradation	Detection without destruction: new model to diagnose material-level failure pathways in operational batteries.	Qian Huang
Safety and Reliability	Understanding Heat Transfer and Fire Spread Within an ESS Rack Under Thermal Runaway Conditions	Cells in thermal runaway can vent gases 100x their volume, so accurate thermal models will enhance safety practices.	Michael Meehan
Safety and Reliability	Update on an Eight-Year Performance, Materials, and Safety Study of Commercial Li-Ion Cells	Beyond the spec sheet: The longest-running (8+ years) public cycling test illuminates lithium battery values beyond 80% degradation.	Yuliya Preger
Sodium Batteries	A Physics-Aware ML-MD Framework for Electrolyte Screening	Better than AI: a physics-informed ML framework facilitates rapid screening of sodium electrolytes.	Liwen Wan
Sodium Batteries	Advanced Characterization and Data-Driven Insights into Sodium-Ion Battery Cathodes	An AI-assisted workflow and materials screening pipeline accelerates materials down-selection and has already identified promising candidates for sodium-ion cathodes.	Ahamed Irshad Maniyanganam
Sodium Batteries	Cell Engineering of Sodium-Ion Pouch Cells for Enhanced Performance	Worth its salt: Can theoretical sodium-ion battery designs actually be fabricated for less than $90/kwh?	Marcos Lucero
Sodium Batteries	Charge Transfer Kinetics of the Sodium \| NaSICON Interface	A newly-developed method to study chemical interface behaviors can help design more effective (higher power/durability) interfaces for future sodium batteries.	Isaac Dyer
Sodium Batteries	Development of Electrolyte for Na-Ion Batteries with Enhanced Cycling Stability	New additive helps reduce capacity fade in sodium-ion batteries.	Donghai Wang
Sodium Batteries	Evaluating Degradation in Sodium-Ion Battery Cathodes Using Operando XRD	Sodium-ion cell prototypes with an x-ray diffusion "peephole" perform similarly to regular prototypes.	Marissa Wood
Sodium Batteries	High-voltage Electrolyte Design for Sodium-ion Batteries	New sodium-compatible electrolyte increases cell voltage (4.4V-4.7V) while achieving promising early-R&D cycle life (hundreds of cycles to 80% capacity).	Dejian Dong
Sodium Batteries	Materials Innovation and Cell Development for Room Temperature Sodium-Sulfur Batteries	Advanced spectroscopy techniques help pinpoint a literature-leading cathode material.	Xueli Zheng
Sodium Batteries	Mechanistic Modeling of Sodium-Ion Adsorption and Pore Filling in Hard Carbon Anodes	How do hard carbon anodes improve sodium battery cycle life? A new physics-based model reveals that pores are key.	Chih-Hsuan Hung
Sodium Batteries	Na-based Redox Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage	New catholyte concepts increase the confidence that sodium redox-flow batteries could meet grid performance requirements.	Ethan Self
Sodium Batteries	NaSICON Interfacial Limitations from Molten to Solid Phase Sodium	Like re-frozen ice cream, re-melted molten sodium batteries aren't as good as the original.	Ethan Lauricella
Sodium Batteries	Process Development and Scale-Up of Sodium ion Cathode Materials	High-performing sodium-ion material: it works, now we need to make more of it.	Fred Omenya
Sodium Batteries	Process R&D for Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials Manufacturing	From teaspoons to tons: developing industrial-scale process to make layered cathode active materials for sodium-ion batteries.	Runming Tao
Sodium Batteries	Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Technologies for Grid Energy Storage Applications	New additive helps aluminum replace expensive Nickel as a cathode in sodium-metal halide batteries.	Guosheng Li
Sodium Batteries	Tuning Lewis Acid-Base Interactions in Molten Sodium Batteries to Enhance Charge Transport	This additive increases molten sodium battery efficiency and capacity by 5% and 10%, respectively.	Stephen Percival
Stakeholder Developments and Industry Trends	Benchmarking Soft Costs of Utility Scale Energy Storage	A survey-based study reveals that energy storage projects take around 300 days between permits and operations, while soft costs make up 36% of total project cost.	Daniel Boff
Stakeholder Developments and Industry Trends	Beyond Generation: Considerations for Microgrid Tariffs	Regulators should consider these tips when revising tariffs to unlock the grid value of microgrids.	Karyn Boenker
Stakeholder Developments and Industry Trends	Energy Storage Codes and Standards for Decisionmakers	When technology moves faster than code update cycles, novel regulatory strategies allow states to stay nimble.	Devyn Powell
Stakeholder Developments and Industry Trends	Energy Storage Siting and Permitting Outreach	Workshop on siting and permitting equipped 17 local, state, and regional officials to evaluate and plan for incoming storage installations.	Devyn Powell
Stakeholder Developments and Industry Trends	Functionalizing Energy Storage	Establishing a separate regulatory class for storage could unlock significant additional benefits.	Jeremy Twitchell
Stakeholder Developments and Industry Trends	Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Integration with Baseload Generation	When paired with baseload, today's 4- and 8-hour batteries do not yet produce a positive net present value.	Prathit Dave
Stakeholder Developments and Industry Trends	Regulatory Research and Outreach	In FY26, PNNL helps 5 states and multiple state cohorts incorporate storage benefits into their planning processes.	Jeremy Twitchell
Stakeholder Developments and Industry Trends	The Law of Averages: Energy Storage and Affordability	Use more of what is already built: 13 projects saved hundreds of millions of dollars by smoothing supply and demand.	Jeremy Twitchell
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Alkaline Earth Stabilized ZnO Electrodes for Rechargeable Batteries	Previously untested additives [Mg(OH)2] help increase the volumetric density of zinc batteries by 75%.	Igor Bezsonov
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Consortium for Lead Battery Leadership - Red Team 2: Failure Analysis and Modeling	(After measuring 13 million x-ray diffraction patterns) The lead battery consortium has identified two R&D paths to help lead batteries compete on the grid.	Mohammed Effat
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Decoupling Mechanical Deformation in Stack Pressured Aqueous Zinc Batteries	Light pressure in play keeps dendrites away.	Joseph Fink
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Electrochemical and In-situ Spectroscopic Investigation of Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Metal-Air Batteries	Newly-developed catalysts help reveal the mechanics of oxygen reactions, leading to better future metal-air battery designs.	Doo Young Kim
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Iron Sulfoselenide Nanoparticles as Tunable Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts	Dialing in the oxygen: new iron-based particles could enable higher-performing zinc-air batteries.	Bryan Wygant
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Limited DOD Cycling Enabling Extremely Stable Cycling in Mildly Acidic Zn/MnO2	Shallow cycling promotes long cycle life in Zn MnO2 batteries; an acetate electrolyte allows substitution of low-cost aluminum for titanium current collectors.	Casey Davis
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Machine Learning for Dendrite Suppression: Designing Stable Anodes for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries	Natural language AI-assisted research pinpoints three key focus areas to prevent dendrites in aqueous zinc-ion batteries.	Lu Yu
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Mechanical Compression Effects Rechargeability of Alkaline Zn-MnO₂ Batteries	A little pressure improves cycle life and reduces overpotential (by over 30%) in Zinc Manganese Oxide batteries.	Chi Nguyen
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Multiscale Characterization of Lead Acid Batteries: effect of positive electrode additives on formation and cycling	Synchrotron reveals how antimony and carbon can extend lead-acid battery life.	Tim Fister
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Multiscale Structured Hybrid Electrolyte Design for Water Activity Regulation in Aqueous Zn Batteries	What/Wet the H: new structured electrolyte reduces unsafe H2 buildup in aqueous zinc batteries.	Won-Gwang Lim
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Novel Earth-Abundant Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions	This copper-based catalyst could address the efficiency weakness of iron-air batteries.	Xiang Lyu
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Polymer Electrolyte-Based Zinc-Air Batteries with Earth-Abundant Bifunctional Electrocatalysts	New screening methods help pinpoint materials that exhibit desired performance (voltage, cycle life) for future zinc-air batteries.	Ruhul Amin
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Secondary Trivalent Al-Air Battery Development Utilizing Earth Abundant Materials	Lab scale aluminum-air battery shows initial results (voltage and efficiency) that meet grid requirements.	Stephen Percival
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Simulations of Complex Ion Structure in KOH Electrolytes for Zinc Batteries	What classical molecular dynamics gets wrong about ion force fields (and how more accurate models will help design better zinc batteries).	Amalie Frischknecht
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Soft Shorts and Other Pernicious Problems in Zn-Ion Battery Research	New cryogenic femtosecond imaging helps researchers understand the soft-shorting problem in zinc-ion batteries.	Calvin Quilty
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Solving Zinc Dendrite Formation on Anodes through Controlled Cation–Anion–Solvent Interactions	New lower-cost electrolyte disrupts dendrites in aqueous zinc batteries.	Dan Thien Nguyen
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Testing of Lead Batteries for Long Duration Applications	Can lead batteries complete on the grid? Initial GSL tests establish a baseline.	Ed Thomsen
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Understanding and Optimizing Dissolution Suppressing Electrolytes of a Sodium Vanadate Cathode in Rechargeable Zinc-Ion Batteries	New cathode improves capacity retention for aqueous zinc-ion batteries.	Andrew Nicoll
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Understanding Failure Mechanisms in Cupric Oxide Cathodes for Rechargeable Alkaline Zinc Batteries	Cupric oxide is a promising cathode for zinc batteries but more research is required to overcome rapid capacity fade.	Yogesh Agilan
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Understanding the Degradation Mechanism of Rechargeable Alkaline Zinc Batteries Under the Influence of Externally Applied Pressure	While pressure can improve zinc battery performance, it could also reveal separate failure pathways.	Deepak Kharel
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Unraveling Spatial Electrochemical Heterogeneity and Additive-Mediated Regulation in Scale-up Aqueous Zinc-Ion Pouch-Type Cells	Spreading the butter: how to translate performance-enhancing additives from small zinc coin cells to much larger pouch cells.	Xingbo Liu
Zinc and Lead Batteries	Zinc Sulfur Systems for Low Cost Safe Long Duration Energy Storage	Zinc Sulfur could form very low-cost batteries, and this project will tackle key performance limitations.	Amy Marschilok
Session Topic

Monday, July 27

Peer Reviewer & PI Meetings

Time	Topic
12:00 – 2:00pm	Poster Review Block 1: Sodium Batteries, Zinc & Lead Batteries, Power Electronics
2:00 – 4:00pm	Poster Review Block 2: Flow Batteries, Grid Resilience, Analytics & Tools, Safety & Reliability
4:00 – 6:00pm	Poster Review Block 3: Stakeholder Developments & Industry Trends, Next Generation Large Scale Energy Storage, Grid Integration and Field Validation

Tuesday, July 28

Opening Remarks and Roundtables

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Welcome Remarks	Catherine Jereza	Department of Energy
Welcome Remarks	Erik Webb	Sandia National Laboratories
Introduction	Will McNamara	Sandia National Laboratories
Roundtable: Deputy Assistant Secretaries	Eric Hsieh, Department of Energy Jacob Ward, DOE Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation

Session 1: Next Generation Large Scale Energy Storage

Session Lead: Erik Spoerke, Department of Energy

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Session Introduction	Erik Spoerke	Department of Energy
Progress and Challenges for Sodium Solid-State Batteries for Safe, Low-Cost Stationary Energy Storage	Mark Weller	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Exploring Soluble Iron Electrolytes in Redox Flow Systems	Gabriel Nambafu	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Understanding the Impact of Hydrogen evolution on Performance of Vanadium Redox Flow Battery	Johnson Dhanasekaran	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Assessing the Reliability Contributions of Energy Storage as a Transmission Asset	Zhi Zhou	Argonne National Laboratory
LDES Consortium	Will McNamara	Sandia National Laboratories

Session 2: Flow Batteries

Session Lead: Wei Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Topic	Speaker	Organization
2026 DOE OE Energy Storage Peer Review – Redox Flow Batteries	Wei Wang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
AI-Guided Automation–HTE Workflows for Accelerated Redox Flow Battery Discovery	Yangang Liang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Fluorenone-based electrolyte for flow batteries	Ruozhu Feng	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sandia Membrane Development for Energy Storage Devices: Industry Partnerships	Cy Fujimoto	Sandia National Laboratories
A History of Bi-Redox Molecules (BRMs) for Next-Generation Flow Batteries at Sandia	Sam Macchi	Sandia National Laboratories
Na-Based Hybrid Flow Batteries for Low-Cost Energy Storage	Ethan Self	Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ES Program Manager Roundtable and Poster Session

Time	Topic	Speaker/Organization
2:55 – 3:55pm	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
3:55 – 4:05pm	Sponsorship Remarks	The Flow Battery Industry Group, a part of BCI
4:05 – 6:05pm	Poster Session

Wednesday, July 29

Day 2 Welcome Remarks and Keynote Presentation

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Welcome Remarks	Mohammed Kamaludeen	Department of Energy
Keynote Presentation	Jon Parella	Terraflow Energy

Session 3: Grid Integration & Field Validation

Session Lead: Waylon Clark, Sandia National Laboratories

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Session Introduction	Waylon Clark	Sandia National Laboratories
Kit Carson Electric Cooperative microgrid collaborative analysis project	Rodrigo Trevizan & Alberto Grimaldi	Sandia National Laboratories & Argonne National Laboratory
Validation of Innovative Storage Technologies for Resilience	Di Wu	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Supercapacitor Characterization	Oindrilla Dutta	Sandia National Laboratories
Energy Storage Codes and Standards Update	Michael Ropp & Dave Schoenwald	Sandia National Laboratories
Q&A

9:00 – 10:00am: BEACONS facility & CHESS tour (by registration only; closed-toe shoes required)
10:00 – 11:00am: BEACONS facility & CHESS tour (by registration only; closed-toe shoes required)

Session 4: Safety & Reliability

Session Lead: Loraine Torres-Castro, Sandia National Laboratories

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Safety and reliability for Grid-Scale BESS: From technical evidence to grid confidence	Loraine Torres-Castro	Sandia National Laboratories
Interoperability and Reliable Operation of Energy Storage	Jaime Kolln	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Predicting Long-Term Grid Battery Performance from Cell to Module Scale	Daiwon Choi	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Thermal runaway early warning: over-temperature detected by acoustic emission	Hsin Wang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A modeling perspective on thermal runaway propagation through the module and rack scales	Mike Meehan	Sandia National Laboratories
Re-evaluating standard metrics for Battery aging reporting	Yuliya Preger	Sandia National Laboratories

11:00am – 12:00pm: BEACONS facility & CHESS tour (by registration only; closed-toe shoes required)

Session 5: Analytics & Tools

Session Lead: Patrick Balducci, Argonne National Laboratory

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Session Introduction	Patrick Balducci	Argonne National Laboratory
Long-Term Energy Storage Planning for Reliability and Affordability	Konstantinos Oikonomou	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
From Promise to Performance: Evaluating Storage Controls with ES-Control	Dexin Wang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
EverBESS: End of Life Considerations for Stationary Energy Storage Systems	Jakob Elias	Argonne National Laboratory
QuESt Grid Planning Tools Enhancements For Improved Energy Storage Investment Planning	Cody Newlun	Sandia National Laboratories
Quest 3.0– pathway to automatic workflows for energy storage analytics	Tu Nguyen	Sandia National Laboratories

2:00 – 3:00pm: BEACONS facility & CHESS tour (by registration only; closed-toe shoes required)
3:00 – 4:00pm: BEACONS facility & CHESS tour (by registration only; closed-toe shoes required)

Session 6: Stakeholder Developments & Industry Trends

Session Lead: Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Stakeholder Developments & Industry Trends	Will McNamara	Sandia National Laboratories
Regulatory Research and Outreach	Jeremy Twitchell	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Energy Storage Codes and Standards for Decisionmakers	Devyn Powell	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Soft costs of energy storage deployments	Dan Boff	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Utilizing Aggregated BTM BESS for FTM Resilience & Affordability Objectives	Todd Olinsky-Paul Will McNamara	ESTAP Sandia National Laboratories
Reducing Investment Risk for Energy Storage Financing	Richard Baxter	Mustang Prairie Energy

4:00 – 5:00pm: BEACONS facility & CHESS tour (by registration only; closed-toe shoes required)

5:15 – 7:15pm

Dinner Keynote
Dan Woodfin, ERCOT

Thursday, July 30

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Welcome Remarks	Eric Hsieh	Department of Energy

Session 7: Sodium Batteries

Session Lead: Xiaolin Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Session Introduction	Xiaolin Li	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Process R&D for Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials Manufacturing	Runming Tao	Argonne National Laboratory
Sodium-Ion Battery Development	Fred Omenya	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Technologies for Grid Energy Storage Applications	Guosheng Li	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sodium Metal Batteries Using Earth Abundant Materials	Leo Small	Sandia National Laboratories
Comprehensive Multi-Scale Safety and Risk Analysis of Sodium-Ion Batteries	Nathan Johnson	Sandia National Laboratories

Session 8: Power Electronics

Session Lead: Michael Starke, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Introduction to Power Electronics R&D	Michael Starke	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A Controller Hardware in the Loop validation of Power Electronic for Flow Batteries: Integration and Coordination	Renata Kimpara	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Modular Energy Storage Platforms for Advanced Control, Diagnostics and Grid Integration	Armando Montoya	Sandia National Laboratories
Immersion Cooling of Power Electronics	Jack Flicker	Sandia National Laboratories
Low-cost Magnetics-less Isolated Bidirectional GaN Power Converters for Grid-Tied Storage	Jin Wang	Ohio State University
Hafnia Gate Dielectrics for Energy Conversion	Andrew Binder	Sandia National Laboratories

Session 9: Grid Reliability & Resilience

Session Lead: Alok Bharati, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Topic	Speaker	Organization
BESS – A Critical Grid Resource	Alok Bharati	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Enhancing Grid Reliability using Energy Storage Systems	Dilip Pandit	Sandia National Laboratories
Understanding Battery Degradation for Grid Energy Storage Systems	Marm Dixit	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Storing Affordability: Battery Storage as an Asset to Reduce Data Center Cost Shifts	Devyn Powell	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Beyond Generation: Regulatory Considerations for Microgrid Tariffs	Karyn Boenker	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Session 10: Zinc & Lead Batteries

Session Lead: Tim Lambert, Sandia National Laboratories

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Session Introduction	Tim Lambert	Sandia National Laboratories
Multiscale characterization of lead acid battery electrodes and new cell designs	Tim Fister	Argonne National Laboratory
Zinc Battery Development at PNNL	Matt Fayette	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Demystifying Additives and Expanders in Lead-Acid Batteries	Ajay Karakoti	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
From Zincate Restoration to HER-Resistant MnTe: Stabilizing Anodes for Aqueous Energy Storage	Nian Liu	Georgia Tech
Materials Strategies Aimed at Low-cost High-Capacity and Long-Cycle life Grid Storage Batteries from Earth Abundant Elements	Tim Lambert	Sandia National Laboratories

Topic	Speaker	Organization
Closing Remarks	Mohammed Kamaludeen	Department of Energy