Frances White, of PNNL, reports that about 250 of the world leading energy storage experts will gather at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory late May, 2016 to discuss the latest battery technologies that are making electric transportation and large-scale renewable energy storage more accessible.
At the 9th Energy Storage Symposium ... Beyond Lithium Ion, leaders from national labs, industry and academia will share their research into developing next-generation energy storage technologies that can be less costly, safer and more environmentally friendly than today state-of-the-art energy storage device, the lithium-ion battery.
When the conference was first organized in 2009, its sole focus was developing better energy storage for electric vehicles. But this symposium will also include discussion on large-scale stationary batteries to support the power grid, as the grid complexity has grown exponentially with the increasingly widespread use of intermittent wind and solar power.
This conference includes a keynote address from Patricia Hoffman, assistant secretary for DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, which funds the research, development and demonstration of a wide range of grid-related energy storage technologies. PNNL speakers include Wei Wang, who will discuss materials and chemistries for redox flow batteries, and Yuyan Shao, who will discuss the chemistry of magnesium and zinc batteries.
The annual symposium is co-organized by five Department of Energy national laboratories, NASA and IBM. This is the second time PNNL has hosted the event.
More information is available at the conference website. The full agenda is also online. In addition to talks listed on the agenda, about 50 researchers presented their work in a scientific poster session.
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