Agenda - National Energy Storage Summit

National Energy Storage Summit
This two day virtual public summit will convene and connect national and regional thought leaders across industry, government, communities, and the research enterprise to catalyze solutions and partnerships around specific challenges to America’s energy storage future.

The schedule for Day 1 and Day 2 is 9:00 am–2:00 pm PT/12:00 pm–5:00 pm ET

Day 1: MARCH 8, 2022

Day 2: MARCH 9, 2022

Day 1: America’s Battery Production Revolution: From Resource to Recharge America is falling behind on the battery production curve, with implications to both national and economic security. Day 1 will focus on leveraging policy, science, and technical innovations across materials, supply chains, and production processes to revolutionize a domestic battery ecosystem and realize America’s full potential, including creating equitable clean-energy jobs in the U.S.
Welcome & Keynotes 9:00 am PT/12:00 pm ET \| Recording Mike Witherell, Director, Berkeley Lab U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) Sally Benson, Deputy Director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Framing the Day 9:10 am PT/12:10 pm ET \| Recording Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center
Fireside Chat: The Big Picture 9:15 am PT/12:15 pm ET \| Recording Energy storage holds the key to transitioning to a decarbonized economy, and the batteries of today, while ubiquitous, cannot get us there. We need to innovate battery R&D, jumpstart domestic battery manufacturing, and encourage widespread deployment to meet our clean energy goals. Is there a shared vision between the federal government and industry on what success looks like for the U.S. with regards to battery R&D, supply chains, production, and deployment? What will a robust domestic battery manufacturing capability mean for our economic and national security? Can we leverage public-private partnerships for success? What are the major milestones we need to hit to be successful, and what are the top challenges to getting there? The Honorable Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy & Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors Moderated by Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center
Panel: Building out a Domestic Lithium Resource 9:45 am PT/12:45 pm ET \| Recording Our rapidly advancing lithium extraction science and technology presents an enormous opportunity to build out a national lithium resource for batteries. How is the U.S. positioned globally for this opportunity (resource, technology, etc.)? What are the main challenges to sustainable and affordable extraction in current and future operations across different lithium resources? What infrastructure (e.g., policy, market, workforce, partnerships, environment justice and equity) do we need to create or leverage to realize the full scale of this opportunity across the U.S.? Moderator: Mike Whittaker, Director of the Lithium Resource Research and Innovation Center (LiRRIC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Panelists: Eduardo Garcia, CA Assemblymember (District 56) & Chair of the Select Committee on California’s Lithium Economy Glen Merfeld, Chief Technology Officer for Albemarle’s Lithium Business Silvia Paz, Chair of California’s Lithium Valley Commission and Executive Director of Alianza Coachella Valley Jonathan Weisgall, Vice President for Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for Berkshire Hathaway Energy
Panel: Securing a U.S. Battery Supply Chain: Materials & Processing 10:15 am PT/1:15 pm ET \| Recording The National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries envisions a secure battery materials and technology supply chain that supports long-term U.S. economic competitiveness, good-paying jobs for American workers, enables decarbonization, advances social justice, and meets national security requirements. While the previous panel discussed securing domestic access to lithium in particular, this conversation considers how to support the growth of a U.S. materials and processing base able to meet domestic battery manufacturing demand. What are the benefits and challenges of a domestic battery supply chain and are there lessons learned from other sectors? What is the scope of battery precursors and can we ameliorate the challenges imposed by critical minerals (e.g., cobalt, nickel)? How can we build a foundation to a domestic battery supply chain that supports rather than strips the environment and meets today’s security challenges? What innovative S&T (e.g., with regards to recycling and second use, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous labs) and policies are needed to meet the unique logistics needs of the materials and processing portions of a sustainable supply chain? Moderator: Diana Bauer, Deputy Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office at the U.S. Department of Energy Panelists: Joe Bryan, Chief Sustainability Officer for the U.S. Department of Defense Gerbrand Ceder, Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Samsung Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley Sameera Fazili, Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council Kimberly Lavoie, Director General, Policy and Economics Branch, Lands and Minerals Sector Natural Resources Canada Ruby Nguyen, Project Lead at the Critical Materials Institute and Group Lead of System Dynamics & Modeling at Idaho National Lab
Break 10:45 am PT/1:45 pm ET
Panel: Home-grown Production: Leveraging U.S. Manufacturing Innovations 11:00 am PT/2:00 pm ET \| Recording U.S. innovation in battery manufacturing — bridging from material processing, component production, and cell to pack manufacturing — is a critical step in deploying next-generation batteries with a focus on cost, quality, reliability, and safety. This panel will discuss the critical role of domestic manufacturing in establishing a sustainable supply chain for energy storage, the opportunities to accelerate the discovery-to-deployment timeline via innovation to the “science of manufacturing,” the potential to lower manufacturing CapEx and increase productivity, and examples of early successes. Moderator: Richard Wang, Founder and CEO, Cuberg at Northvolt Panelists: Sergio Coronado, Senior Vice-President of Future Innovation, New Business Development, and Licensing at Duracell Celina Mikolajczak, Chief Manufacturing Officer at Quantumscape Prabhakar Patil, Former CEO at LG Chem Power Kristin Persson, Director of the Molecular Foundry and the Materials Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Panel: Next-Gen U.S. Gigafactories: Shifting from Import to Export 11:30 am PT/2:30 pm ET \| Recording The U.S. has fallen behind on the battery production curve. Integral to completing a domestic battery supply chain capable of meeting the energy storage demands of a decarbonized economy is the need for a strategy leading to U.S. gigafactories churning out next-gen batteries. This will bring clean energy manufacturing jobs and stimulate the demand signal for the rest of the domestic supply chain, from the extraction of lithium and up the value chain. This panel will discuss projected demand, current and future gigafactory construction plans worldwide, the challenges of scale up, and needed regional-to-federal partnerships and policies across industry, manufacturing, finance, and the research ecosystem. Moderator: Kelsey Tamborrino, Energy Reporter at POLITICO Panelists: Ilka von Dalwigk, Policy Manager at InnoEnergy and European Battery Alliance Robert H. Edwards, Jr., Director of Outreach and Business Development for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office Monica Gorman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing in the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration Landon Mossburg, President of Northvolt America
Community Brainstorm — Jumpstarting the Future: Seeding the Battery Production Roadmap 12:00 pm PT/3:00 pm ET Taking the next step on the National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries, this session will invite participants to consider the opportunities, challenges, and proposed solutions of one of the earlier sessions — and draw from their own expertise — to explore potential milestones, partnerships, and pathways toward building a robust domestic energy storage production ecosystem from lab to market. Sessions below will run in parallel. Building out a Domestic Lithium Resource – Facilitator – Alex Grant, Principal at Jade Cove Partners Securing a U.S. Supply Chain: Materials and Processing – Facilitator – Amy Marschilok, Energy Storage Division Manager at Brookhaven National Laboratory & Co-Director of the Institute for Electrochemically Stored Energy at Stony Brook University Home-grown Production: Leveraging U.S. Manufacturing Innovations – Facilitator – Andrew Westover, Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab NextGen U.S. Gigafactories – Shifting from Import to Export – Facilitator – Alecia Ward, Program and Business Development Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Recharge Break 12:45 pm PT/3:45 pm ET \| Recording Need a break? Take 15 minutes to step away from the computer and do some light yoga led by Berkeley Lab employees to “recharge” your own batteries.
The Secret Life of Energy Storage: International Space Station “Field Trip” 1:00 pm PT/4:00 pm ET \| Recording This exciting “field trip” to the International Space Station will be a chance to talk to an astronaut currently in orbit around the Earth about the realities of living and working in space and the recently completed battery upgrade missions. We’ll also discuss how the ISS has been and continues to be a driver for R&D that focuses on novel advancements in energy solutions and advanced manufacturing in space. This is the first stop in a new virtual field trip series with LBNL and SLAC. Special Guest: Kayla Barron, NASA Astronaut (speaking from the International Space Station) Moderators: Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center Faith Dukes, Director of K-12 Programs at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Panel: Leapfrogging: Roadmap to a U.S. Battery Future 1:25 pm PT/4:25 pm ET \| Recording Moderator: Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center Panelists: Julie Blunden, Board Chair for New Energy Nexus Catalyst, Board Member for New Energy Nexus Ventures, & Advisory Board Member at Plus Power Jim Greenberger, Executive Director of NAATBatt International David Howell, Director of the Vehicle Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy Esther Takeuchi, Chief Scientist and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Science Department at Brookhaven National Lab and SUNY Distinguished Professor and the William and Jane Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment at Stony Brook University Informed by panelist and participant input from previous sessions, this distinguished group will consider the energy storage science and technology, market and finance, and policy and regulation next steps needed to fully realize the vision of a robust battery production ecosystem in the U.S.
Day One Wrap-Up 1:55 pm PT/4:55 pm ET \| Recording Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center
Break 2:00 pm PT/5:00 pm ET
Themed Happy Hour: At the Nexus of Energy Justice & Energy Storage 2:10 pm PT/5:10 pm ET Come sip on a virtual beverage and network with industry professionals and other senior diversity, equity, and inclusion leaders and ambassadors talking about their latest environmental, energy, and social justice efforts across the country with relevance to energy storage. There will be various energy/social justice related virtual themed rooms designed to increase your knowledge in Energy Justice, or you can simply mix, mingle, and chat with other conference attendees to increase your professional network. The purpose of this happy hour is to learn more about energy equity, and build allies and partnerships with other like minded participants within a fun virtual platform called Kumospace (optional user guide on how to navigate the networking platform.) Keynote speaker: Tony Reames, Senior Advisor on Energy Justice in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity Ambassadors: Lady Idos, Senior Advisor for Justice, Equity, Diversity, Belonging, and Inclusion at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity Karthick Ramakrishnan. Director of the Center for Social Innovation & Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at University of California, Riverside C. Anna Spurlock, Energy and Environmental Policy Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Justice40 Fellow for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity Bethel Tarekegne, Energy Justice Research Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Lab

Day 1: America’s Battery Production Revolution: From Resource to Recharge

America is falling behind on the battery production curve, with implications to both national and economic security. Day 1 will focus on leveraging policy, science, and technical innovations across materials, supply chains, and production processes to revolutionize a domestic battery ecosystem and realize America’s full potential, including creating equitable clean-energy jobs in the U.S.

Welcome & Keynotes

9:00 am PT/12:00 pm ET | Recording

Mike Witherell, Director, Berkeley Lab
U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA)
Sally Benson, Deputy Director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Framing the Day

9:10 am PT/12:10 pm ET | Recording

Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center

Fireside Chat: The Big Picture

9:15 am PT/12:15 pm ET | Recording

Energy storage holds the key to transitioning to a decarbonized economy, and the batteries of today, while ubiquitous, cannot get us there. We need to innovate battery R&D, jumpstart domestic battery manufacturing, and encourage widespread deployment to meet our clean energy goals. Is there a shared vision between the federal government and industry on what success looks like for the U.S. with regards to battery R&D, supply chains, production, and deployment? What will a robust domestic battery manufacturing capability mean for our economic and national security? Can we leverage public-private partnerships for success? What are the major milestones we need to hit to be successful, and what are the top challenges to getting there?

The Honorable Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
& Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors
Moderated by Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center

Panel: Building out a Domestic Lithium Resource

9:45 am PT/12:45 pm ET | Recording

Our rapidly advancing lithium extraction science and technology presents an enormous opportunity to build out a national lithium resource for batteries. How is the U.S. positioned globally for this opportunity (resource, technology, etc.)? What are the main challenges to sustainable and affordable extraction in current and future operations across different lithium resources? What infrastructure (e.g., policy, market, workforce, partnerships, environment justice and equity) do we need to create or leverage to realize the full scale of this opportunity across the U.S.?

Moderator: Mike Whittaker, Director of the Lithium Resource Research and Innovation Center (LiRRIC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Panelists:
- Eduardo Garcia, CA Assemblymember (District 56) & Chair of the Select Committee on California’s Lithium Economy
- Glen Merfeld, Chief Technology Officer for Albemarle’s Lithium Business
- Silvia Paz, Chair of California’s Lithium Valley Commission and Executive Director of Alianza Coachella Valley
- Jonathan Weisgall, Vice President for Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for Berkshire Hathaway Energy

Panel: Securing a U.S. Battery Supply Chain: Materials & Processing

10:15 am PT/1:15 pm ET | Recording

The National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries envisions a secure battery materials and technology supply chain that supports long-term U.S. economic competitiveness, good-paying jobs for American workers, enables decarbonization, advances social justice, and meets national security requirements. While the previous panel discussed securing domestic access to lithium in particular, this conversation considers how to support the growth of a U.S. materials and processing base able to meet domestic battery manufacturing demand. What are the benefits and challenges of a domestic battery supply chain and are there lessons learned from other sectors? What is the scope of battery precursors and can we ameliorate the challenges imposed by critical minerals (e.g., cobalt, nickel)? How can we build a foundation to a domestic battery supply chain that supports rather than strips the environment and meets today’s security challenges? What innovative S&T (e.g., with regards to recycling and second use, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous labs) and policies are needed to meet the unique logistics needs of the materials and processing portions of a sustainable supply chain?

Moderator: Diana Bauer, Deputy Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office at the U.S. Department of Energy
Panelists:
- Joe Bryan, Chief Sustainability Officer for the U.S. Department of Defense
- Gerbrand Ceder, Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Samsung Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley
- Sameera Fazili, Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council
- Kimberly Lavoie, Director General, Policy and Economics Branch, Lands and Minerals Sector Natural Resources Canada
- Ruby Nguyen, Project Lead at the Critical Materials Institute and Group Lead of System Dynamics & Modeling at Idaho National Lab

Break

10:45 am PT/1:45 pm ET

Panel: Home-grown Production: Leveraging U.S. Manufacturing Innovations

11:00 am PT/2:00 pm ET | Recording

U.S. innovation in battery manufacturing — bridging from material processing, component production, and cell to pack manufacturing — is a critical step in deploying next-generation batteries with a focus on cost, quality, reliability, and safety. This panel will discuss the critical role of domestic manufacturing in establishing a sustainable supply chain for energy storage, the opportunities to accelerate the discovery-to-deployment timeline via innovation to the “science of manufacturing,” the potential to lower manufacturing CapEx and increase productivity, and examples of early successes.

Moderator: Richard Wang, Founder and CEO, Cuberg at Northvolt
Panelists:
- Sergio Coronado, Senior Vice-President of Future Innovation, New Business Development, and Licensing at Duracell
- Celina Mikolajczak, Chief Manufacturing Officer at Quantumscape
- Prabhakar Patil, Former CEO at LG Chem Power
- Kristin Persson, Director of the Molecular Foundry and the Materials Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Panel: Next-Gen U.S. Gigafactories: Shifting from Import to Export

11:30 am PT/2:30 pm ET | Recording

The U.S. has fallen behind on the battery production curve. Integral to completing a domestic battery supply chain capable of meeting the energy storage demands of a decarbonized economy is the need for a strategy leading to U.S. gigafactories churning out next-gen batteries. This will bring clean energy manufacturing jobs and stimulate the demand signal for the rest of the domestic supply chain, from the extraction of lithium and up the value chain. This panel will discuss projected demand, current and future gigafactory construction plans worldwide, the challenges of scale up, and needed regional-to-federal partnerships and policies across industry, manufacturing, finance, and the research ecosystem.

Moderator: Kelsey Tamborrino, Energy Reporter at POLITICO
Panelists:
- Ilka von Dalwigk, Policy Manager at InnoEnergy and European Battery Alliance
- Robert H. Edwards, Jr., Director of Outreach and Business Development for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office
- Monica Gorman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing in the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration
- Landon Mossburg, President of Northvolt America

Community Brainstorm — Jumpstarting the Future: Seeding the Battery Production Roadmap

12:00 pm PT/3:00 pm ET

Taking the next step on the National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries, this session will invite participants to consider the opportunities, challenges, and proposed solutions of one of the earlier sessions — and draw from their own expertise — to explore potential milestones, partnerships, and pathways toward building a robust domestic energy storage production ecosystem from lab to market. Sessions below will run in parallel.

Building out a Domestic Lithium Resource – Facilitator – Alex Grant, Principal at Jade Cove Partners
Securing a U.S. Supply Chain: Materials and Processing – Facilitator – Amy Marschilok, Energy Storage Division Manager at Brookhaven National Laboratory & Co-Director of the Institute for Electrochemically Stored Energy at Stony Brook University
Home-grown Production: Leveraging U.S. Manufacturing Innovations – Facilitator – Andrew Westover, Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab
NextGen U.S. Gigafactories – Shifting from Import to Export – Facilitator – Alecia Ward, Program and Business Development Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Recharge Break

12:45 pm PT/3:45 pm ET | Recording

Need a break? Take 15 minutes to step away from the computer and do some light yoga led by Berkeley Lab employees to “recharge” your own batteries.

The Secret Life of Energy Storage: International Space Station “Field Trip”

1:00 pm PT/4:00 pm ET | Recording

This exciting “field trip” to the International Space Station will be a chance to talk to an astronaut currently in orbit around the Earth about the realities of living and working in space and the recently completed battery upgrade missions. We’ll also discuss how the ISS has been and continues to be a driver for R&D that focuses on novel advancements in energy solutions and advanced manufacturing in space. This is the first stop in a new virtual field trip series with LBNL and SLAC.

Special Guest: Kayla Barron, NASA Astronaut (speaking from the International Space Station)
Moderators:
- Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center
- Faith Dukes, Director of K-12 Programs at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Panel: Leapfrogging: Roadmap to a U.S. Battery Future

1:25 pm PT/4:25 pm ET | Recording

Moderator: Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center
Panelists:
- Julie Blunden, Board Chair for New Energy Nexus Catalyst, Board Member for New Energy Nexus Ventures, & Advisory Board Member at Plus Power
- Jim Greenberger, Executive Director of NAATBatt International
- David Howell, Director of the Vehicle Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy
- Esther Takeuchi, Chief Scientist and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Science Department at Brookhaven National Lab and SUNY Distinguished Professor and the William and Jane Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment at Stony Brook University

Informed by panelist and participant input from previous sessions, this distinguished group will consider the energy storage science and technology, market and finance, and policy and regulation next steps needed to fully realize the vision of a robust battery production ecosystem in the U.S.

Day One Wrap-Up

1:55 pm PT/4:55 pm ET | Recording

Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center

Break

2:00 pm PT/5:00 pm ET

Themed Happy Hour: At the Nexus of Energy Justice & Energy Storage

2:10 pm PT/5:10 pm ET

Come sip on a virtual beverage and network with industry professionals and other senior diversity, equity, and inclusion leaders and ambassadors talking about their latest environmental, energy, and social justice efforts across the country with relevance to energy storage. There will be various energy/social justice related virtual themed rooms designed to increase your knowledge in Energy Justice, or you can simply mix, mingle, and chat with other conference attendees to increase your professional network. The purpose of this happy hour is to learn more about energy equity, and build allies and partnerships with other like minded participants within a fun virtual platform called Kumospace (optional user guide on how to navigate the networking platform.)

Keynote speaker: Tony Reames, Senior Advisor on Energy Justice in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity
Ambassadors:
- Lady Idos, Senior Advisor for Justice, Equity, Diversity, Belonging, and Inclusion at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity
- Karthick Ramakrishnan. Director of the Center for Social Innovation & Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at University of California, Riverside
- C. Anna Spurlock, Energy and Environmental Policy Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Justice40 Fellow for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity
- Bethel Tarekegne, Energy Justice Research Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Lab

Day 2: Driving Accelerated Energy Storage Discovery-to-Deployment for Decarbonization

The clock is ticking on the global clean energy transition. Day 2 will expand CalCharge’s annual Bay Area Battery Summit ecosystem to a national stage, with a focus on bridging the diverse stakeholders across science to systems to accelerate equitable national energy storage deployment in all relevant sectors: the evolving grid, manufacturing, resilience, transportation, and buildings. Like last year, the focus will broaden beyond batteries to energy storage at large. The focus of Day 2 is on catalyzing partnerships, so come prepared to share, connect, and engage. Today’s sessions will focus on a series of decarbonization opportunities: Evolving Grid (including long duration energy storage), Transportation (including recycling & second-use), Resilience, Buildings (including system integration) and Energy-Intense Industry (including thermal energy storage and hydrogen). Additionally, Energy Justice & Equity and Energy Storage Workforce will be embedded in all areas.

Welcome & Keynotes

9:00 am PT/12:00 pm ET | Recording

Danny Kennedy, CEO of New Energy Nexus
U.S. Representative Bill Foster (D-IL)
David Hochschild, Chair of the California Energy Commission

Framing the Day

9:10 am PT/12:10 pm ET | Recording

Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center

How to Partner with DOE & the National Labs

9:15 am PT/12:15 pm ET | Recording

The Dept. of Energy’s National Labs — a $30 billion annual investment in our nation’s R&D ecosystem — offer many kinds of ways to engage with industry partners. From technical advice to conversations protected by NDAs, to sample testing at state-of-the-art user facilities, the Labs offer accelerated research and development via access to its world-renowned experts, specialized research facilities, and transformational technologies. This short video will introduce just a few of the Labs’ amazing capabilities in energy storage science and technology.

Narrator: U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Innovation, Geri Richmond

Getting from Here to There: Setting the Stage on Energy Storage Needs and Challenges

9:20 am PT/12:20 pm ET | Recording

A series of lightning talks will lay out the big picture challenges and opportunities for the major energy storage use cases, aligned with national imperatives. Participants are then invited to choose one topic to further explore in breakout panels. Lightning Talk Speakers:

Evolving Grid – Paul Denholm, Senior Energy Analyst with the Grid Planning and Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Lab
Transportation – Shirley Meng, Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) at Argonne National Lab and Professor of Molecular Engineering at University of Chicago
Resilience – Miguel Heleno, Energy & Environmental Policy Research Scientist for the Grid Integration Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Buildings – Sumanjeet Kaur, Leader, Thermal Energy Group in the Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Energy-Intense Industry – Prakash Rao, Research Scientist for the Buildings and Industrial Applications Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Parallel Session I – Evolving Grid Panel

Recording

Moderator: Eric Hsieh, Executive Director of the Long Duration Energy Storage Association of California, and fellow panelists:
Panelists:
- Christian Belady, Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft
- Ben Bollinger, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Malta
- Haresh Kamath, Director of Energy Storage and DER Integration at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- Kelly Sarber, CEO of the Strategic Management Group & Board Member for NY-BEST
- Julia Souder, Executive Director of the Long Duration Energy Storage Association of California

Parallel Session II – Transportation Panel

Recording

Moderator: Tom Kirchstetter, Senior Scientist, Director of the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, and Interim Director of the Cyclotron Road Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Panelists:
- Yi Cui, Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University and Professor in Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Nina French, Technical Director for the Energy Portfolio at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit
- Rachael Nealer, Interim Deputy Director for the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation at the U.S. Department of Energy
- Amol Phadke, Staff Scientist in the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Parallel Session III – Resilience Panel

Recording

Moderator: Doug Black, Grid Integration Group Leader in the Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Panelists:
- Erin Childs, Director at Strategen
- Natalie Popovich, Justice40 Fellow for the Department of Energy Office of Economic Impact and Diversity & Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Costa Samaras, Principal assistant director for energy and chief advisor for energy policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Joshua Simmons, President and Founder of Prosper Sustainably
- Tim Tetreault, Energy and Water Program Manager for the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program at the U.S. Department of Defense & Integrated Applications Center Senior Project Lead at National Renewable Energy Lab

Parallel Session IV – Buildings Panel

Recording

Moderator: Jason Woods, Senior Research Engineer at National Renewable Energy Lab
Panelists:
- Claus Daniel, Senior Fellow Sustainability at Carrier Global Corporation
- Bill Edrich, Global Head of Commercial & Industrial at Sunamp
- Ram Narayanamurthy, Program Director for the Emerging Technologies Team in the Department of Energy Building Technologies Office
- Mary Ann Piette, Director of the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Parallel Session V – Energy-Intense Industry Panel

Recording

Moderator: Cliff Ho, Senior Scientist in the Climate Change Security Center at Sandia National Laboratories
Panelists:
- Hanna Breunig, Deputy Head of the Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Ben Gilbert, Program Lead for Discovery Geosciences and Geochemistry at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Adrienne Little, Vice President of Systems Engineering at Antora Energy
- Daryl Wilson, Executive Director of the Hydrogen Council

Break

10:10 am PT/1:10 pm ET

Pitchfest: Sharing Innovative Ideas from Science to Deployment

10:25 am PT/1:25 pm ET | Recording

Pitchfest participants compete to earn their spot in this National Energy Storage Summit session. Each speaker will propose exciting solutions to challenges discussed in topic areas of the previous session. Join the Pitchfest to hear from fellow attendees on the biggest and best ideas with a focus on accelerating deployment of all types of energy storage solutions (science and technology, policy and regulation, markets) for a better future.

Master of Ceremonies: Danny Kennedy, CEO of New Energy Nexus
Speaker Finalists:
- Alex Zorniger, Power to Hydrogen: Long Duration Energy Storage with Reversible Fuel Cells
- Andrew Tanner, Yotta Energy: Panel-Level Energy Storage: Storing Energy at the Source!
- Antonio Baclig, Inlyte Energy: Developing the Proven Zebra Battery for the Grid
- Bor-Rong (Hypo) Chen, Idaho National Laboratory: Early Detection of Aging Mechanisms in Li-ion Batteries – A Machine-learning Framework
- Brian McCarthy, EC Power: Goldilocks and Enabling a True Mass Market Battery Pack Using Thermal Modulation
- Dani Ushizima, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Advancing Lithium Metal Battery Design with Deep Learning
- David Mackanic, Anthro Energy: Robust polymer electrolytes enable flexible and structural batteries
- Dula Parkinson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: X-ray Vision into energy storage
- Jan Naidu, ReVolt Battery Technology Corp.: Reactivation of cathode materials from spent commercial lithium-ion batteries
- Jason Cotrell, RCAM Technologies: 3D Concrete Printed Subsea Pumped Hydro Electric Storage
- Kathryn Otte, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: VRE Complement Optimization
- Manas Pathak, EarthEn: Energy Pod for longer duration Energy Storage
- Nian Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology: A Co-Axial Microtubular (CAMT) Flow Battery with Ultra-High Volumetric Power and Continuous Manufacturability
- Ryan Klabunde, Cryostone: A ThermoChemical Approach to Energy Storage Using L-CAES
- William Taggart, Taggart Engineering: Underground Pumped Storage Hydroelectric

Collaboration Cycles: Initiating Connections to Accelerate Solutions

11:25 am PT/2:25 pm ET

To encourage collaborations, you’ll be able to apply to a special $20,000 Collaboration Seed Fund (special thanks to University of California) after the event to help accelerate ideas and your new partnerships from this session (meetings + roundtables). We’re offering matchmaking and time on the agenda to create connections in order to catalyze partnerships. Want to meet someone you saw on the event platform’s “Networking” tab, on the agenda, in the Showcase, or during the PitchFest? This is your chance to meet! Everyone has three 15-min slots (Charge-Discharge-Charge!) to explore potential collaborations. If that’s not for you, please join one of our “themed” roundtables with co-hosts moderating the group discussion — a great opportunity to discuss industry’s needs and how researchers can help, new science and tech that could change the industry landscape in years to come, and much more.

- Roundtable A: Accelerating development and deployment of energy storage technologies with artificial intelligence and machine learning — Focusing on ways in which data, algorithm development, and machine learning can play a part in developing completely new energy storage technologies as well as in optimizing and improving today’s existing solutions.
  Jens Hummelshoej (Toyota Research Institute) + Anubhav Jain (LBNL)

- Roundtable B: Characterizing energy storage technologies via access to DOE national user facilities — Advanced operando characterization techniques available at DOE national user facilities can provide valuable insight into how materials behave and evolve in energy storage technologies, improving our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms at play and leading to intelligently designed solutions to technological problems.
  Shannon Ciston (LBNL) + Kevin Stone (SLAC)

- Roundtable C: Circularity in Battery Recycling for a Sustainable Future — Discussing technology and partnership opportunities and challenges in battery recycling for circularity and supply chain resilience as we advance to TWh-scale deployment for transportation and grid use-cases.
  Brett Helms (LBNL) + Gao Liu (LBNL) + David Okawa (Redwood Materials) + Steve Sloop (OnTo Technology)

- Roundtable D: Electrical Storage Enabled by Conversion into Hydrogen — Exploring hydrogen as a chemical storage medium (and its subsequent production/use) and associated hydrogen carriers that can be used for long-duration storage or transportation and even in other applications as an off road for excess energy generation.
  Tom Autrey (PNNL) + Adam Weber (LBNL)

- Roundtable E: Large-Scale Long-Duration Subsurface Energy Storage — Focusing on opportunities and challenges of thermal, mechanical (compressed air, gravity storage), and chemical (hydrogen) storage in porous media systems, along with analysis and demonstration approaches.
  Travis McLing (INL) + Curt Oldenburg (LBNL)

- Roundtable F: Leveraging Resources, IP, and Scientific Talent at National Labs: Ways to Partner with Us — Get an overview and ask questions about the partnership and IP mechanisms to unlock access to National Lab resources and expertise.
  Greg Halder (ANL) + Todd Pray (LBNL)

- Roundtable G: Lithium Valley — Successes and challenges building an inclusive, sustainable, clean energy economy centered around inland Southern California’s lithium resource
  Vijay Dhar (New Energy Nexus) + Rebecca Lee (New Energy Nexus) + Michael Whittaker (LBNL)

Panel: Regulatory and Legislative Activities Spurring Energy Storage Deployment in the U.S.

12:10 pm PT/3:10 pm ET | Recording

State and federal legislation and regulation will have a profound impact on the future of energy storage in the United States. This session will examine recent and anticipated legislative and regulatory actions to increase the domestic reach of energy storage. Panelists will touch on topics ranging from the recent Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to increased deployment of energy storage resources through expanded access to existing markets via FERC and state actions.

Introductory remarks:
- U.S. Representative Mark Takano (D-CA), Co-Chair of the Congressional Energy Storage Caucus
- U.S. Representative John Curtis (R-Utah), Co-Chair of the Congressional Energy Storage Caucus and Chair of the Conservative Climate Caucus
Moderator:
- Ryan Wiser, Senior Advisor to the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Senior Scientist at the Office of Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy
Panelists:
- Adam Berry, Professional Staff Member at U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Jignasa Gadani, Director of the Office of Energy Policy and Innovation at the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
- Delphine Hou, Director of California Regulatory Affairs at the California Independent System Operator
- Charlotte Mitchell, Chair of the North Carolina Utilities Commission

Recharge Break

12:55 pm PT/3:55 pm ET | Recording

Need a break? Take 15 minutes to step away from the computer and do some stretches led by Berkeley Lab employees to “recharge” your own batteries.

Community Brainstorm: “Working Towards Energy Storage Deployment Plans”

1:10 pm PT/4:10 pm ET

Attendees will head into moderated themed breakout discussions to recommend near and long-term actions to accelerate energy storage deployment in support of decarbonization and resilience, starting from discovery to market at-scale, and accounting for the diverse partnerships and energy storage ecosystem members needed for equitable and timely solutions. Themes:

Evolving Grid – Facilitator – Tony van Buuren, Deputy Associate Director for S&T in the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Transportation – Facilitator – Johanna Nelson Weker, Lead Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Resilience – Facilitator – Doug Black, Grid Integration Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Buildings – Facilitator – Sumanjeet Kaur, Thermal Energy Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Energy-Intense Industry – Facilitator – Adam Weber, Leader of the Energy Conversion Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Co-Director of DOE’s Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck Consortium (M2FCT) & Deputy Director of the DOE HydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium

Summit Closeout

1:55 pm PT/4:55 pm ET | Recording

Noël Bakhtian, Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center