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| Tuesday March 10 |
| 10:30 | Applying Energy Storage |
| 1:30 | Battery Energy Storage I |
| 4:00 | Energy Storage I - Posters |
| Wednesday March 11 |
| 9:30 | Battery Energy Storage II |
| 10:15 | Collaboration to Advance Storage |
| 1:30 | Storage Beyond Batteries |
| 4:00 | Energy Storage II - Posters |
| Thursday March 12 |
| 9:00 | Keys to Storage Commercialization and Deployment |
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2026 Symposium Program |
| Tuesday March 10 |
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| 10:30 | Applying Energy Storage | RCC 306B |
| Session chair: Erik Spoerke, Department of Energy, Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories, & Xiaolin Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Introductory Remarks - Energy Storage
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| National Leading Energy Storage Demonstrations
K. Johnston, NextGen Energy, US |
| Integrating SMR's with Thermal Energy Storage
J. Koontz, Rock Energy Storage, US |
| Dispatching the Future: Long-Duration Storage for Alaska’s Grid Evolution
L. Vesely, K. Sedlacko, D. Jones, Echogen, US |
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| 1:30 | Battery Energy Storage I | RCC 306B |
| Session chair: Erik Spoerke, Department of Energy, Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories, & Xiaolin Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Recent Insights into Aqueous Zinc Battery Behavior
E.S. Takeuchi, A.C. Marschilok, K.J. Takeuchi, Stony Brook University, US |
| Revitalizing Alkaline Zn-MnO₂ Battery for Scalable, Safe and Sustainable Energy Storage
J. Huang, G.G. Yadav, M. Weiner, G. Cowles, Urban Electric Power Inc., US |
| A Highly Densified, Aqueous Zinc Polyiodide (ZnI₂) Flow Battery Platform for Safe, U.S.-Manufacturable Long-Duration Energy Storage
K.P. Meagher, The BESSt Company, US |
| Low-cost, high-performance, Lithium-free battery with an in-built energy harvester as sustainable sources
B. Jain, A.J. Bandodkar, North Carolina State University, US |
| The Electrochemistry of Two-Electron Conversion Reactions for Rechargeable Aqueous Batteries
J.W. Gallaway, Northeastern University, US |
| Hybrid Metallic Cation−Anionic Surfactant Additive Regulating Interfacial Chemistry for High−Stability Zn Metal Anodes
N.A. Thieu, P. Gao, W. Li, S. Zhang, S. Chen, X. Li, X. Liu, West Virginia University, US |
| Textural Tuning of Municipal Solid Waste Biochar toward High-Performance Functional Materials
S. Bera, R. Rao, L. Pal, North Carolina State University, US |
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| 4:00 | Energy Storage I - Posters | Expo Hall AB |
| Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids in Graphene-Capped Liquid Cells Probed by Synchrotron Infrared Nanospectroscopy: Insights into Electric Double Layers for Advanced Energy Storage
Z. Li, K.C. Ng, S. Anderson, M. Jaugstetter, M. Salmeron, M.C. Martin, H.A. Bechtel, S.N. Gilbert Corder, Hunter College of the City University of New York, US |
| Enhancing Military Resilience: A Suite of Mature Energy Generation, Storage, and Efficiency Technologies
M. Hartle, Nabors Energy Transition Solutions, US |
| Hybrid Energy Storage Systems for Renewable Integration: Combining Batteries, Supercapacitors, and Flywheels
T.M. Iwayemi, O.S. Tomomewo, S. Choudhary, D.K. Boakye, University of North Dakota, US |
| Characterization of particulate and gaseous emissions from thermal runaway of sodium-ion cells
V. Premnath, D. Kannan, I. Khalek, J. Jeevarajan, UL Research Institutes, US |
| Thermal Runaway of Portable Lithium-ion Batteries and Fire Suppression in an Aircraft Cargo Compartment
B. Kwon, C. Lopez, D. Overall, B. Connolly, V. Premnath and J. Jeevarajan, UL Research Institutes, US |
| Characterizing the safety of commercial sodium-ion batteries
D. Rajagopalan Kannan, J. Yap, V. Premnath, J.A. Jeevarajan, UL Research Institutes, US |
| Bolstering Energy Independence Within Asphalt Production via Thermal Energy Storage
L.P. McLaughlin, Sandia National Laboratories, US |
| CarbonCrete: A Multifunctional Cementitious Platform for Non-Battery Energy Storage, Electromagnetic Attenuation, and Infrastructure Resilience
R. Kristof, Amidon, US |
| Wednesday March 11 |
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| 9:30 | Battery Energy Storage II | RCC 306B |
| Session chair: Erik Spoerke, Department of Energy, Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories, & Xiaolin Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Innovations in Battery Technology for Grid-Scale Energy Storage
G. Damato, CMBlu Energy, Inc., US |
| Low-Cost Organic Electrolytes for Next-Generation Flow Batteries
M. Bahari, A.S Hamedi, V. Vallem, E. Beh, Quino Energy, Inc., US |
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| 10:15 | Collaboration to Advance Storage | RCC 306B |
| Session chair: Erik Spoerke, Department of Energy, Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories, & Xiaolin Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Grid Storage Launchpad: Advancing U.S. Energy Storage Technologies
V. Sprenkle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US |
| Use Case Development for Advancing Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Technologies in the LDES National Consortium
Z. Ma, National Laboratory of the Rockies, US |
| Innovation at the Cross-Section of Industry and Academia: Consortium for Lead Battery Leadership
T. Ellis, C. Greco, A. McQuilling, R. Miksad, M. Raiford, E. Thomsen, T. Fister, K. Knehr, A. Stack, D. Wu, X. Ma, Consortium for Battery Innovation, US |
| Sodium-ion Alliance for Grid Energy Storage
X. Li, D.M. Reed, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US |
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| 1:30 | Storage Beyond Batteries | RCC 306B |
| Session chair: Erik Spoerke, Department of Energy, Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories, & Xiaolin Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Formulation and Case Studies for Optimization of Thermal Energy Storage Dispatch for Industrial Process Heating
J. Rushkoff, Electric Power Research Institute, US |
| Subsurface Cold Thermal Energy Storage for Low-Carbon Cooling
H. Soroush, R. Wichuk, K. Baird, Teverra LLC, US |
| Electrospun Nanofibrous Mat with Encapsulated Fatty Acid Phase Change Material for Enhanced Thermal Energy Storage
A.A. Bankole, A. Mali, S. Obare, L. Zhang, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, US |
| Testing of the first Commercial Energy Dome System
S. Hume, H. Hack, Electric Power Research Institute, US |
| Solving the "Small Door to the Mechanical Room" Problem - Modular, High Performance Thermal Storage Tank
G. Schultz, O. Buechse, Thermal Energy HQ, US |
| The Safety and Reliability Advantages of Underwater Megawatt Hydrogen Production and Storage
E. Greenbaum, GTA, Inc., US |
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| 4:00 | Energy Storage II - Posters | Expo Hall AB |
| NEMA
C. Granata, NEMA (National Electrical Manufactures Association), US |
| Detecting and Predicting the Performance of Lithium-ion Batteries after Abusive Mechanical Damage
J. Sherman, A. Bombik, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US |
| An Equivalent Power Model for Simulating Thermal Performance of Lithium-ion Batteries
M. Tyrrell, F.A. Mier, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, US |
| Transformerless Paralleled Pulse-Width Modulated Current-Source Rectifier for Large-Scale Hydrogen Production via Water Electrolysis
H. Gao, Washington State University Vancouver, US |
| Sodium-Ion based BESS for AFB & Starter Battery for Navy
T. Vosburgh, Coulomb Technology, US |
| Large Scale Fire Testing – Navigating Codes and Standards in 2026
S.J. Jordan, Jensen Hughes, US |
| Breakthrough Technology for Compressed Hydrogen Energy Storage and Pipeline Technologies
J. Liberkowski, VSens Inc., US |
| Thursday March 12 |
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| 9:00 | Keys to Storage Commercialization and Deployment | RCC 306B |
| Session chair: Erik Spoerke, Department of Energy, Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories, & Xiaolin Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Can New York state realize its long-duration energy storage (LDES) goal of 600MW by 2030?
N. Trivedi, B. Xavier, Vrinda Inc., US |
| Mobilizing Investment to Spur LDES Technologies
K. Johnston, NextGen Energy, US |
| Design for Manufacturing as the Bridge to Scalable Long-Duration Energy Storage
K.P. Meagher, The BESSt Company, US |
| Leveling Up: Advancing how Future Storage will Turbocharge Economic Value
E. Hsieh, Department of Energy, US |
| Storage Innovations 2030: A Path to Storage Abundance by Bridging Gaps
V. Durvasulu, W.H. Balliet, P. Balducci, B. Shrager, Idaho National Laboratory, US |
| EverBESS: a tool for assessing the end-of-life management costs of sodium-ion battery energy storage systems
A. Baby, J.R. Elias, Q. Dai, J.S. Spangenberger, Argonne National Laboratory, US |
| Community-Scale Battery Storage Demonstrations for Grid Resilience in Puerto Rico
D.L. Troche, Boriken Futuro, US |
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