LDES National Consortium Annual Workshop

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LDES National Consortium Annual Workshop

We invite all LDES National Consortium Teaming Partners and others who have a LDES interest to spend two days with their peers from across the LDES ecosystem! The focus of the Annual Workshop will be to increase partnership developments and networking among the LDES ecosystem, host interactive breakout sessions, and provide informational sessions from key speakers and panelists.

Date

September 10 – 11, 2024

Location

Electrical Training Institute
6023 Garfield Ave
Commerce, California
90040

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Agenda

We will be hosting a variety of breakout rooms, including panels, workshops, dialogue sessions, presentations, and special events. Sessions and topics are subject to change.

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Day 1

Breakfast/Check In7:30 – 8:00 AM
Opening Session8:00 – 9:15 AM

Main Room

  • Welcome (Will McNamara, Principal Investigator of the LDES National Consortium, Sandia National Laboratories)
  • Sponsor Opening Remarks (Electrical Training Institute / IBEW / NECA)
  • Sandia Opening Remarks (Ray Byrne, Energy Storage Program Manager, Sandia National Laboratories)
  • DOE Opening Remarks (Emanuele Pecora, Liftoff Enabling Programs Manager, Department of Energy – Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations)
  • LDES National Consortium Update (Will McNamara, LDES National Consortium Principal Investigator, Sandia National Laboratories)
  • Keynote, Opportunities for LDES Technologies: The Roland Berger Perspective (Ben Lowe, Partner Energy & Utilities Regulated & Infrastructure, Roland Berger)
    • In this keynote presentation, Ben Lowe will discuss key drivers, use cases, and technologies for LDES and Roland Berger’s perspective on the key challenges facing LDES players in seeking to accelerate the deployment and adoption of LDES technologies.
Session 19:45 – 10:45 AM

Auditorium

  • PANEL – Utility Perspectives Panel
    • This session will focus on a discussion of the unique needs of utilities as they consider LDES development. Factors such as whether a utility is an IOU, municipal or co-op; whether or not the utility operates in a vertically integrated or restructured market; and the existence of enabling or restrictive policies all can have significant impacts. Representatives from LADWP and DTE Energy will share their perspectives, enabling an interactive discussion with session attendees.
    • Moderator: Jeremy Twitchell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
    • Panelists: Matt Hone (LADWP), Nathan Bennett (DTE Energy), Kelly Nguyen (Pasadena Department of Water and Power), Brent Heffington (Public Service Company of New Mexico)

Room 305

  • WORKSHOP – Geographical Assessment with RTOs: Addressing Regional Variances with Unique Approaches
    • Different regions of the US have differing levels of readiness for LDES deployment due to grid conditions, policies and market constructs. The variances create unique challenges and opportunities for LDES commercialization that must be addressed with nuanced and tailored approaches and recommendations. This workshop will review the work plan that the LDES National Consortium is undertaking to conduct regional assessments of specific RTO markets and the expected outcomes. 
    • Moderators: Will McNamara (Sandia National Laboratories) 
    • Presenters: Mike Granowski (Roland Berger) 

Room 306

  • PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION -Understanding the Cost and Value of Long Duration Energy Storage  

Room 307

  • PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION – Best Practices for Community Engagement for LDES Deployment 
    • In this session participants will explore best practices in community engagement for LDES projects through a variety of modes. First, the group will describe a hypothetical “case study” of community engagement and allow participants to offer a critical assessment on the approach taken in the case study. Next, the group will cover best practices in community engagement as identified by federal agencies as well as the literature. Finally, the group will outline the ideal process of community engagement, again referencing the “case study” from the beginning of the presentation. 
Session 211:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Auditorium

  • PANEL – The Role of LDES from Multiple Perspectives Panel  
    • This panel will discuss the need of energy storage to support 100% clean energy future and the role of LDES from analyst, planner, end users, and developers. This panel will use LA100 as an example for path and lessons towards 100% clean energy.  
    • Moderator: Zhiwen Ma (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) 
    • Panelists: Caleb Dennis-Kiyasu (LADWP), Paul Denholm (NREL), Rachel Wilson (Form Energy), Joe Stekli (Galvanize Climate Solutions) 

Room 305

  • WORKSHOP – Public/Private Funding Scenarios  
    • Learn about and help our collective understanding of the public/private funding and investment landscape for LDES companies, from those looking for seed funding, to first-of-a-kind projects, to deployments, and to manufacturing. The session will begin with an educational overview of the current state of private sector investment, investment types and strategy with a brief Q&A. Following the initial presentations, participants will help develop case studies and associated plan of action for generalized LDES companies who are seeking private investment at various stages of technology, company, and market development. 
    • Moderator/Presenter: Jeffrey Gifford (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)  
    • Presenter: Michael Sanders (Avicenne Energy) 

Room 306

  • PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION – What Does Safety and Grid Security Mean for LDES?  
    • This workshop will discuss the recommendations developed to address the safety and grid security challenges identified in the DOE LDES Lift-Off report. The discussion will focus on how the recommendation will potentially impact the workforce safety and security standards, training, technology, and procedures in preparation for the transition and integration of LDES technologies into the grid. Further, additional challenges and recommendations identified by the LDES Safety & Grid Security Tiger Team will be presented for discussion with the attendees of this session. Members of the safety, security, and manufacturing industries should attend this session to learn and share their insight on LDES Safety and Grid Security. 
    • Moderator / Presenter: Dan Ricci (Idaho National Laboratory) 
    • Presenter: Elias Greenbaum (GTA, Inc.) 

Room 307

  • PANEL – Pursuing Energy Equity Through LDES Policymaking  
    • An interactive discussion of current “best practices” in state policymaking that seek to ensure that Energy Equity considerations are included in emerging energy storage / LDES policymaking will be the focus of this break-out session. This session will include panelists from Illinois and Michigan who will describe their states’ approaches toward Energy Equity through energy storage / LDES policymaking.  
    • Moderators: H. J. Corsair (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Will McNamara (Sandia National Laboratories) 
    • Presenters: Emily McClure (DOE Clean Energy Innovator – Illinois Commerce Commission), Cathy Cole (Michigan Public Service Commission), Anurupa Roy (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) 

Room 308

  • PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION – Measuring and Monetizing the Benefits of Long-Duration Energy Storage on Grid Reliability and Resilience 
    • There are a number of techniques and modeling approaches used to define the value of power reliability and grid resilience, all with certain benefits and significant shortcomings. While the need for enhanced reliability has become both a greater focal point and challenge for market operators and electricity service providers, the value of enhanced reliability and resilience and the means to compensate LDES to address this need remains an open question. This session will explore this question through presentations covering a range of topics and through follow-on panel discussions and audience Q&A. The session plans to include: the benefits and shortcomings of several reliability and resilience valuation approaches, LDES as a solution to the reliability/resilience challenge, grid modeling techniques and metrics used to evaluate reliability and resilience, and alternative compensation mechanisms for compensating LDES for reliability/resilience services. 
    • Moderator/Presenter: Patrick Balducci (Argonne National Laboratory) 
    • Presenters: Kimberly Johnston (NextGen Energy Partners), Gabe Murtaugh (LDES Council) 
Lunch12:00 – 1:00 PM
Session 3 1:00 – 2:30 PM

Main Room

  • SPECIAL EVENT – Demonstration and Deployment Projects Review  
    • Demonstration projects play an integral role in the bankability and future investment of general infrastructure in the grid-supporting assets. With the need for LDES technologies increasing with growing intermittent renewable electricity generation, the typical end-users need to have a certain degree of guarantee on their investment on new infrastructure. Having substantial operational data from reasonable scale demonstration projects generally decrease the risk of novel technologies, by providing an enhanced learning experience.  
    • Moderators: Henk Laubscher (Sandia National Laboratories) / Dustin Highers (Chugach Electric)  
    • Presenters: Dan Petcovic (Lockheed Martin Energy), Timothy Held (Echogen), Mike Manwaring (Stantec), Eric Watson (Energy Dome) 
Session 42:45 – 3:45 PM
  • SPECIAL EVENT Dialogue Sessions – Use Case Focused 
    • The Dialogue Session event will be networking-focused collaborative session in which participants will choose a room/use case that most aligns to their interests or expertise. Each room will spend 30 minutes discussing key questions regarding their assigned use case for LDES. After 30 minutes, participants will select a second room to attend. This format will allow for small and large group conversations around key challenges and opportunities for LDES across various use cases.  
  • Room 305 – Firming PPAs: Jeffery Gifford (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Elias Greenbaum (GTA, Inc.) 
  • Room 306 – Microgrid Resilience: Kannan Tinnium (Schneider Electric), Luke McLaughlin (Sandia National Laboratories)  
  • Auditorium – Load Management Services: Vilayanur Viswanathan (Vish) (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Dan Petcovic (Lockheed Martin Corporation) 
  • Room 308 – Transmission & Distribution Deferral: Patrick Balducci (Argonne National Laboratory), Joe Stekli (Galvanize Climate Solutions) 
  • Room 309 – Energy Market Participation: Guangdong Zhu (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Todd Levin (Argonne National Laboratory) 
  • Room 307 – Utility Resource Planning: Paul Denholm (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Rebecca Barney (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) 
Session 54:00 – 5:00 PM

Main Room

Reception5:00 – 6:00 PM

Day 2

Breakfast/Check In7:30 – 8:00 AM
Opening Session8:00 – 8:45 AM

Auditorium

  • Welcome (Will McNamara, Principal Investigator of the LDES National Consortium, Sandia National Laboratories) Keynote Speaker
  • Sandia Opening Remarks (Mary Monson, Senior Manager, Technology Partnerships and Business Development) 
  • DOE Opening Remarks (Dr. Vanessa Chan, Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Energy and Director of the DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions) 
  • Keynote, LDES and the Future of the Grid: NERC’s Perspective (Howard Gugel, Vice President, Regulatory Oversight, NERC) 
    • In this keynote presentation, Howard Gugel will share NERC’s perspectives on the grid-transformation challenges facing LDES technologies, including the evolution of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards, maintaining grid security, and strengthening the agility of operational processes, all of which are critical considerations on the pathway to LDES commercialization. 
Session 68:45 – 9:45 AM

Main Room:

  • PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION – Alignment with DOE-OE LDES Initiatives 
    • In this keynote presentation, Dr. Erik Spoerke, Distinguished R&D Materials Scientist at the Department of Energy–Office of Electricity will discuss the LDES focused initiatives that are being funded through the DOE-OE and how they align with the objectives of the LDES National Consortium (and vice versa). DOE-OE funded initiatives focused on LDES include the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC), the Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI), the Long Duration Storage Shot, and the Storage Innovations 2030: Technology Liftoff funding opportunity announcement (FOA).  
    •  Presenter: Erik Spoerke, Department of Energy – Office of Electricity 
Session 710:00 – 11:00 AM

Auditorium

  • PANEL – Regulations & Standards Panel  
    • In order to achieve wide commercialization, LDES technologies will need to ensure that they are compliant with national codes and standards (C&S). In fact, filling gaps in reliability C&S that may be unique to LDES technologies will be a critical factor in removing barriers impacting the wide commercial adoption of LDES technologies. This break-out session will provide an overview of the key C&S that are relevant to LDES deployment and include open discussions on activities at both IEEE and UL Solutions to ensure C&S related to storage remain updated, applicable to, and appropriate for LDES. 
    • Moderators: Will McNamara (Sandia National Laboratories) 
    • Panelists: Charlie Vartanian (IEEE), Chris Searles (CGS & Associates) 

Room 305

  • WORKSHOP – Adoption Readiness Level Workshop 
    • This session will walk through the Adoption Readiness Level framework. To get to deployment, a technology must be completely de-risked, and ecosystem economics established so that every player in the value chain has a viable economic model. This means that managing a technology portfolio solely through the well-understood and widely used Technology Readiness Level (TRL) stage-gates is not enough. Often, commercialization fails not because of the technology’s fundamentals, but because ecosystem economics have not been addressed or critical ecosystem players have not come onboard. Adoption Readiness Levels have been developed to compliment TRLs and describe adoption risks so that stakeholders have a tool that helps them drive towards wide scale adoption. 
    • Moderator: Kailey Fascitelli (Sandia National Laboratories) 
    • Presenter: Eshaan Agrawal (Department of Energy – Office of Technology Transitions) 

Room 306

  • PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION – Storage as Transmission/Grid Infrastructure
    • The techno-economic aspects of integrating energy storage with the electric grid is primarily two-fold. Hybridization of energy storage with non-dispatchable and intermittent renewable energy sources can ensure more efficient utilization of the interconnected grid infrastructure. On the other hand, the energy storage, itself can occasionally bear the burden of grid infrastructure – ensuring greater reliability in the long run. This session will have two presentations and follow on discussion to cover such aspects, including techno-economic considerations and use cases.  
    • Moderator/Presenter: Venkat Durvasulu (Idaho National Laboratory) 
    • Presenter: Jeremy Twitchell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) 

Room 307

  • PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION – LDES Workforce: Looking Forward 
    • A panel of speakers will discuss workforce in long-duration energy storage, including past studies that have been done and links between LDES and other energy-related fields. These short presentations will be followed by Q&A. The session is designed for businesses anywhere in the supply chain who see challenges in attracting the skills they need.  
    • Moderator: H. J. Corsair (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
    • Panelists: Yue Ke (Argonne National Laboratory), Bernie Kotlier (NECA-IBEW LMCC), Matthew Garcia (CEMG Consulting & Research)  
Session 811:15 AM -12:00 PM
  • SPECIAL EVENT – Tiger Team Meetings  
    September’s Tiger Team meetings will be held live at the LDES National Consortium Workshop! During these meetings, crossovers will be created by grouping Tiger Teams to discuss overlap between teams, findings of the workshop, and plan for activities in year 2 of the consortium.
  • Auditorium – Technology Deployment, Evaluation, & Testing, Demonstrations & Deployments, Safety & Grid Security, Use Case Development: Luke McLaughlin (Sandia National Laboratories), Henk Laubscher (Sandia National Laboratories), Dan Ricci (Idaho National Laboratory), and Zhiwen Ma (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) 
  • Room 305 – Supply Chain & Manufacturing Efficiencies, Workforce Development: H.J. Corsair (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Charles Snyder (East Penn Manufacturing Co.) 
  • Room 306 – Market Planning, Policy & Regulations, Interconnection, Standards, & Permitting, Utility Resource Planning: Todd Levin (Argonne National Laboratory), Jeremy Twitchell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Will McNamara (Sandia National Laboratories) 
  • Room 307 – Economics & Valuation, Investor Confidence, & Financing: Patrick Balducci (Argonne National Laboratory), Jeffrey Gifford (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) 
  • Room 308 – Customer Adoption, Equity: Rebecca Barney (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Guangdong Zhu (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Anurupa Roy (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) 
  • Room 309 – Grid Infrastructure, Reliability & Resilience: Venkat Durvasulu (Idaho National Laboratory), Kimberly Johnston (NextGen Energy Partners) 
Lunch12:15 – 1:15 PM
Session 91:15 – 2:15 PM
  • SPECIAL EVENT – Dialogue Sessions – Technology Focused
    The Dialogue Session event will be networking-focused collaborative session where participants will choose a room/technology that most aligns to their interests or expertise. Each room will spend 30 minutes discussing key questions regarding their assigned technology for LDES. After 30 minutes, participants will convene for a group discussion. This format will allow for small and large group conversations around key challenges and opportunities for LDES across various technology types.  
  • Auditorium – Mechanical: Zhiwen Ma (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) 
  • Room 305 – Thermal: Luke McLaughlin (Sandia National Laboratories) 
  • Room 306 – Chemical: Henk Laubscher (Sandia National Laboratories)  
  • Room 307 – Electrochemical: Vilayanur Viswanathan (Vish) (Pacific Northwest National Laboratories) 
Session 102:30 – 4:00 PM

Main Room