2025 Agenda

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

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Time	Topic
7:00 – 8:00am	Registration/Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30am	Remembering Dr. Imre Gyuk (Optional)
8:30 – 8:55am	Welcome Remarks/Introduction

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Time	Topic	Presenter/Organization
8:55 – 9:55am	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

Time	Topic
9:55 – 10:25am	Break

Session 1: Next Generation, Large Scale Energy Storage

Session Lead: Erik Spoerke

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
10:25 – 10:35am	Opening Remarks	Erik Spoerke	US Department of Energy	100
10:35 – 10:50am	Brief Overview: Next Generation, Large-Scale Energy Storage Technologies	Will McNamara	Sandia National Laboratories	101
10:50 – 11:05am	Redox Flow Batteries Utilizing Soluble Iron Complexes	Aaron Hollas	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	102
11:05 – 11:20am	Dendrite-Resistant Solid Sodium Anodes to Enable Long-Duration Solid-State Sodium Batteries	Mark Weller	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	103
11:20 – 11:35am	Design of Gel Polymer Electrolytes and Performance Assessment of Electrocatalysts for Durable Zn–Air Batteries	Ruhul Amin	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	104
11:35 – 11:50am	Incorporating Multivariate Weather Hazards into System Planning with Energy Storage	Neal Mann	Argonne National Laboratory	105
11:50am – 12:00pm	Q&A

Time	Topic
12:00 – 1:00pm	Lunch

Session 2: Flow Batteries

Session Lead: Reed Wittman

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
1:00 – 1:10pm	A Primer on Office of Electricity Funded Flow Battery Research	Reed Wittman	Sandia National Laboratories	200
1:10 – 1:25pm	Material Development for Redox Flow Batteries at PNNL	Wei Wang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	201
1:25 – 1:40pm	Fluorenone-based Material Development for Redox Flow Batteries	Ruozhu Feng	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	202
1:40 – 1:55pm	Development of Cost-effective Hydrocarbon Membranes and Electrolytes for High-Energy Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries	Guang Yang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	203
1:55 – 2:10pm	Flow Battery Research at Sandia National Laboratories	Sam Macchi	Sandia National Laboratories	204
2:10 – 2:25pm	An Industry Perspective on the State-of-the-Art RFBs	Mike Perry/Brian Berland	Storion	205
2:25 – 2:35pm	Q&A

Time	Topic
2:35 – 3:05pm	Break

Session 3: Demonstration Projects

Session Lead: Waylon Clark

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
3:05 – 3:15pm	Energy Storage Demonstration Projects Session	Waylon Clark	Sandia National Laboratories	300
3:15 – 3:30pm	ARES Lessons Learned	Don Bender	ARES	301
3:30 – 4:00pm	Energy Storage Component and System Level Codes, Standards, & Regulations	David Rosewater	Sandia National Laboratories	302
4:00 – 4:15pm	Washington Dept. of Commerce Energy Storage Deployments	Diane Baldwin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	303
4:15 – 4:30pm	Energy Storage Interconnection Codes and Standards	Michael Ropp	Sandia National Laboratories	304
4:30 – 4:40pm	Q&A

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization
4:40 – 4:50pm	Sponsorship Remarks	Jeff Reeves	The Flow Battery Industry Group, a part of BCI

Time	Topic
4:50 – 6:50pm	Poster Session/Reception

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Time	Topic
7:00 – 8:00am	Registration/Breakfast
8:00 – 8:10am	Welcome Remarks
8:10 – 9:00am	Dr. Imre Gyuk Impact Panel (Optional)

Session 4: Safety and Reliability

Session Lead: Loraine Torres-Castro

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
9:00 – 9:10am	Safety and Reliability of Energy Storage Systems	Loraine Torres-Castro	Sandia National Laboratories	400
9:10 – 9:25am	Understanding BESS Fire Hazards at the System Level with Experiments and Modeling	Andrew Kurzawski	Sandia National Laboratories	401
9:25 – 9:40am	Reducing Cost and Increasing Confidence Through Interoperability	Jaime Kolln	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	402
9:40 – 9:55am	Acoustic Emission During Thermal Runaway Induced by Mechanical Indentation and Thermal Abuse	Hsin Wang	Oak Ridge National Laboratories	403
9:55 – 10:10am	Performance and Degradation of Li-ion Batteries from Cells to Systems	Yuliya Preger	Sandia National Laboratories	404
10:10 – 10:25am	Microcell DSC Analysis of Si-Graphite Anodes Paired with High Energy Density Cathodes	Bryan Wygant	Sandia National Laboratories	405
10:25 – 10:35am	Q&A

Time	Topic
10:35 – 11:05am	Break

Session 5: Analytics and Tools

Session Lead: Patrick Balducci

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
11:05 – 11:15am	A Brief Overview of Ongoing Energy Storage Analytics Research at Argonne National Laboratory	Patrick Balducci	Argonne National Laboratory	500
11:15 – 11:30am	Advanced Storage Planning for a Cost-Effective and Resilient Grid	Konstantinos Oikonomou	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	501
11:30 – 11:45am	Model Selection Platform for Energy Storage	Dexin Wang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	502
11:45am – 12:00pm	Development of Computational Framework for BESS Aging and Degradation for Grid Use Cases	Srikanth Allu	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	503
12:00 – 12:15pm	Sandia Energy Storage Analytics – FY25 Updates	Tu Nguyen	Sandia National Laboratories	504
12:15 – 12:30pm	EverBESS: Evaluating End-of-life-Management for Battery Energy Storage Systems	Jakob Elias	Argonne National Laboratory	505
12:30 – 12:40pm	Q&A

Time	Topic
12:40 – 1:40pm	Lunch

Session 6: Regulatory

Session Lead: Jeremy Twitchell

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
1:40 – 1:50pm	Energy Storage Regulatory Research and Outreach	Jeremy Twitchell	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	600
1:50 – 2:05pm	Reducing Investment Risk in Energy Storage Financing	Richard Baxter	Mustang Prairie Energy	601
2:05 – 2:20pm	Emerging Finance Models	Dan Boff	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	602
2:20 – 2:35pm	Siting and Permitting Energy Storage	Devyn Powell	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	603
2:35 – 3:05pm	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		604
3:05 – 3:15pm	Q&A

Time	Topic
3:15 – 3:45pm	Break

Session 7: Sodium Batteries

Session Lead: Leo Small

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
3:45 – 3:55pm	Sodium Batteries Session Overview	Leo Small	Sandia National Laboratories	700
3:55 – 4:10pm	Sodium-Ion Battery Development	Fred Omenya	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	701
4:10 – 4:25pm	Intermediate Temperature Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Technologies for Grid Energy Storage Applications	Guosheng Li	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	702
4:25 – 4:40pm	Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries Containing Sodium Metal Anodes and Sodium Thiophosphate Catholytes	Ethan Self	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	703
4:40 – 4:55pm	Calorimetric Investigation of Heat Flows in Na-ion Battery Materials	Alex Bates	Sandia National Laboratories	704
4:55 – 5:10pm	Process R&D for Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials Manufacturing	Runming Tao	Argonne National Laboratory	705
5:10 – 5:20pm	Understanding Na-ion’s Roadmaps to Competitiveness	Adrian Yao	Stanford-SLAC	706
5:20 – 5:30pm	Q&A

Time	Topic
6:00 – 8:00pm	Dinner Keynote

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Time	Topic
7:00 – 8:00am	Registration
8:00 – 8:10am	Welcome Remarks

Session 8: Power Electronics

Session Lead: Stan Atcitty

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
8:10 – 8:20am	Energy Storage Power Electronics Program	Stan Atcitty	Sandia National Laboratories	800
8:20 – 8:35am	Power Electronics Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Michael Starke	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	801
8:35 – 8:50am	Modeling, Control, and Implementation of Next-Generation Storage Systems	Jacob Mueller	Sandia National Laboratories	802
8:50 – 9:05am	Hybrid Battery Energy Storage System: Enabling Safer Controls and Cybersecurity with Battery Modeling	Victoria O’Brien	Sandia National Laboratories	803
9:05 – 9:20am	Enhancing Energy Storage Power Electronics Design through Artificial Intelligence	Alex Huang	UT Austin	804
9:20 – 9:35am	Reliable Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing System for Early Warning of Failure in Energy Storage Systems	Nick Frank	Sensible Photonics	805
9:35 – 9:45am	Q&A

Time	Topic
9:45 – 10:15am	Break

Session 9: Grid Reliability and Resilience

Session Lead: Diane Baldwin

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
10:15 – 10:20am	Grid Reliability and Resilience Panel Overview	Diane Baldwin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	900
10:20 – 10:40am	Voltage Support Using Battery Storage for KPP	Christine Holland	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	901
10:40 – 11:00am	Enhancing Grid Reliability using Energy Storage Systems	Atri Bera	Sandia National Laboratories	902
11:00 – 11:20am	Energy Storage Benefit Quantification for Grid Reliability and Resilience	Buxin She	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	903
11:20 – 11:40am	BESS Applications to Enhance Transmission and Distribution System Performance	Alok Bharati	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	904
11:40 – 11:50am	Q&A

Time	Topic
11:50am – 12:50pm	Lunch (Boxed Lunch)

Session 10: Zinc and Lead Batteries

Session Lead: Esther Takeuchi

Time	Topic	Presenter	Organization	Session ID
12:50 – 1:00pm	Opening Remarks	Esther Takeuchi	Stony Brook University	1000
1:00 – 1:15pm	Origins of Positive Electrode Failure Modes in Lead Acid Batteries	Tim Fister	Argonne National Laboratory	1001
1:15 – 1:30pm	Advancing Lead Acid Batteries for Grid Resilience	Ajay Karakoti	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	1002
1:30 – 1:45pm	Latest Developments in Mild Acidic Zinc Batteries at PNNL	Matt Fayette	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	1003
1:45 – 2:00pm	Aqueous Zn-Based Batteries	Calvin Quilty	Sandia National Laboratories	1004
2:00 – 2:15pm	Engineering Zn and Mn Anodes for Aqueous Batteries	Nian Liu	Georgia Tech	1005
2:15 – 2:30pm	Development of Copper Oxide Cathodes for Rechargeable Alkaline Zinc Batteries	Josh Gallaway	Northwestern	1006
2:30 – 2:40pm	Q&A

Time	Topic
2:40 – 2:45pm	Closing Remarks
2:45pm	Adjourn
3:00pm	Reception in Hotel Bar (Optional)