Wednesday, May 4, 2022 (Day 1)
OPENING REMARKS
8:00 - 8:10 a.m.
Welcome
Vince Sprenkle, Advisor, Energy Processes & Materials, Energy and Environment, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
8:10 - 8:20 a.m.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Introduction
Jud Virden, Associate Laboratory Director, Energy and Environment, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
8:20 - 8:35 a.m.
Forum Objectives and Welcome
Dr. Imre Gyuk, Director, Energy Storage Research, Office of Electricity, U.S. Department of Energy
8:35 - 8:55 a.m.
DOE Welcoming Remarks
Michael Pesin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Advanced Grid Research and Development Division, Office of Electricity, U.S. Department of Energy
KEYNOTE
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Repowering Earth. . . The Future Ain’t What it Used to be...Storage Will Be The Silver Bullet
Terry Boston, CEO emeritus, PJM Interconnection
PANEL SESSION
Safety Codes & Standards Update - What are the new developments in C&S development?
Moderator: Matt Paiss, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
9:30 - 10:15 a.m.
9540 LISTING & FIRE CODE PANEL
Paul Hayes (FPE), American Fire Technologies
Laurie Florence (SDO), Underwriters Laboratories
Jason Bobruk (Residential Manufacturing), SolarEdge
Lauren Khair (Utility), National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
Bob Davidson (AHJ), Davidson Code Concepts, LLC
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. - Breakout
Safety Research - What gaps need addressing or what successes can be reported?
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Facility Design for Thermal Runaway – PNNL Grid Storage Launchpad
Adam Jivelekas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
NiH2 Fire Safe Technology
Andrzej Skoskiewicz, EnerVenue, Inc.
Energy Redistribution in Response to Thermal Runaway
Dr. Jacob Mueller, Sandia National Laboratories
Propagation Prevention
Dr. William Walker, KULR Technology Group, Inc.
12:00 - 12:15 p.m. - Break
12:15 - 1:00 p.m.
Arlington Microgrid Project
Scott Gibson, Snohomish County Public Utility District (SnoPUD)
Fire Protection Engineering & Systems - What new developments to share or gaps remain?
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
BESS Deflagration Modeling and Prevention Research
Dr. (DK) Ofodike Ezekoye, University of Texas at Austin
Prevention System For Li-Ion Based Battery Energy Storage System
Jens Conzen, Jensen Hughes
Gas Sensing
Brian Engle, Amphenol
Energy Storage Research Consortium
Victoria Hutchison, Fire Protection Research Foundation
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. - Breakout
Safety at the Street Level - What are the challenges and developments from the field?
2:45 - 3:45 p.m.
NYC Fire Code
Nick Petrakis, Energy Safety Response Group
SARET Research Project
Kim Thai, Fire and Rescue NSW, AU
VR Training for Firefighters
Tom Hessels and Nils Rosmuller, Institute for Fire Safety, NL
Thursday, May 5, 2022 (Day 2)
KEYNOTE
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.
Battery Information Databases and Battery Brunch (no slides provided)
Yen T. Yeh, Volta Foundation
Moderator: Charlie Vartanian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
P2686 (BMS)
Dr. David Rosewater, Sandia National Laboratories
P2688 (ESMS)
Dr. David Schoenwald, Sandia National Laboratories
1547.9 (DER ESS Interconnection)
Dr. Michael Ropp, Sandia National Laboratories and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
9:30 - 9:45 a.m. - Breakout
Moderator: Henry Huang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
9:45 - 10:45 a.m.
Advances in PCS Technology and Products
Dr. Blake Lundstrom, Enphase Energy
SNL Power Electronics Program R&D Insights on PCS Reliability & Safety
Dr. Stan Atcitty, Sandia National Laboratories
ORNL Power Electronics Program R&D Insights on PCS Reliability & Safety
Dr. Michael Starke, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Reliability R&D - How are new uses of BESS considering reliability?
10:45 - 11:30 a.m.
NICE Demonstration Project
Dr. Alyssa McQuilling, Southern Research
Second Use Project and Testing for Second Use
Danny Ilioiu, King County and
Ed Thomsen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Microgrid + ESS for Reliability
Steve Pullins, AlphaStruxure
11:30 - 11:45 a.m. - Break
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Building a U.S. Battery Supply Chain
Steve LeVine, The Electric
Analytics & Monitoring - What is being done to provide better data on health and performance?
12:45 - 1:45 p.m.
Digital Twins to Determine Future Effects of Changes in Operation
Dave Mauer, TWAICE
Insitu Impedance Testing for SOH Measurements
Yun Xue, ReJoule, Inc.
State of Health (SOH) and ESS Analytics (no slides provided)
Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies, ACCURE
1:45 - 2:00 p.m. - Breakout
PANEL SESSION
ESS and Electric Grid Reliability - What are the next challenges and opportunities for ESS on T&D?
Moderator: Charlie Vartanian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
EPRI’s BESS Fire Prevention and Mitigation Research
Dirk Long, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Large ESS and Frequency Response
Manuel Avendaño, Southern California Edison
ESS Interconnection Effects on Transmission Systems (no slides provided)
Rich Bauer, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
CLOSING
3:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Dr. Imre Gyuk, Director, Energy Storage Research, Office of Electricity, U.S. Department of Energy