Research Breakfast Briefing

Storage System Cost Declines: Myth vs. Reality

Daniel Finn-Foley, Head of Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie

Case Study: Sunrun's Pioneering Wholesale Market Capacity Contract with ISO New England for DERs

Sunrun's Vice President of Energy Services will break down the company's ISO New England contract, the first of its kind to deliver capacity value from home solar and battery storage systems.

Audrey Lee, Vice President, Energy Services, Sunrun

Moderator: Brett Simon, Senior Analyst, Storage, Wood Mackenzie

Iteration and Innovation in Lithium-Ion and Beyond
Panel: Commodities, Performance & Supply Chain – How Lithium-Ion Chemistries Are Adapting to Market Forces

Tilak Gopalarathnam, Director of Energy Technology Partnerships, LG Corp
Rajshekar Das Gupta, Vice President, Business Development, Electrovaya
Stuart Lansburg, Application Engineer, Saft

Moderator: Madeline Tyson, Senior Associate, Rocky Mountain Institute

Networking Break

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Compare & Contrast Session: Beyond Lithium-Ion – The Growing Ecosystem of Storage Technologies

Paul Dailey, Director, Product & Marketing Strategy, OutBack Power
Adam Briggs, Chief Commercial Officer, Ambri
Collin Coker, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Viking Cold Solutions
Matthew Senesky, Ph.D., Vice President of Engineering, Amber Kinetics
Bill Sproull, Vice President Business Development, ESS

Moderator: Jud Virden, Ph.D., Associate Laboratory Director, Energy and Environment, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Panel: Transitioning from AC to DC Coupling: The Role of Next-Generation System Architectures and System Integrators

Inverter and system integration R&D are key enablers of DC coupling. This session will gather the perspectives of a leading developer and system integrator on how new system architectures and design strategies for DC coupling can result in CAPEX savings, system economics and use-case applications.

Michael Conway, Director of Business Development for Energy Storage, Borrego Solar
Sam Ley, Director of Engineering, AES

Moderator: Ravi Manghani, Head of Solar, Wood Mackenzie

Networking Lunch

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Lunch Workshop: Identifying New Opportunities to Unlock Widespread FTM and BTM Storage Adoption

Join RMI for an hour-long workshop over lunch that will serve as a brainstorming session to hear from the utilities, C&I developers and installers in the room on common barriers and nascent opportunities to accelerate economically viable storage implementation that often remain outside the spotlight at energy industry storage conversations.

Matthew Maroon, Director, Engineering and Development, Oriden Power
Sam Ramirez, Vice President, Operations, Black Bear Energy

Moderator: Charlie Bloch, Principal, Emerging Solutions, Rocky Mountain Institute

El Dorado or Mirage? Mapping Storage’s Wholesale Market Opportunity
Panel: Reflections on Wholesale Market Eligibility and FERC 841 Implementation

Defining Key Roadblocks to Storage Market Participation Across U.S. Markets

Paul Suskie, Executive Vice President, Regulatory Policy and General Counsel, Southwest Power Pool
James Pigeon, Manager, Distributed Resources Integration, NYISO
Paul Wattles, Senior Analyst, Market Design & Development, ERCOT

Moderator: Jason Burwen, Vice President, Policy, Energy Storage Association

Keynote Fireside Chat

Jared Polis, Governor, State of Colorado

Moderator: Daniel Finn-Foley, Head of Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie

Networking Break
Panel: Beyond Frequency Regulation – Creating Energy Arbitrage and Capacity Revenue Streams for Energy Storage

Ted Vatnsdal, Executive Director, Strategic Planning, MISO
Nate Blair, Group Manager, Strategic Energy Analysis Center, NREL
Rahul Kar, Vice President, Industry Solutions, AutoGrid
Justin Felt, Manager of Strategic Planning, Baltimore Gas & Electric

Moderator: Elta Kolo, Ph.D., Grid Edge Content Lead, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables

System Safety: An Additional Layer of Risk in Storage Finance
Closing Roundtable: Outlining the Impact of Safety and Performance Risk on Storage Finance

Factoring in the risk implications of storage system safety in storage finance, including downtime, degradation, cycling, revenue uncertainty and liability.

Jay Goldin, Vice President of Green Tech Solutions, Munich Re
Walter Cuculic, Senior Vice President - Renewable Energy, AVANA Capital

Moderator: Julian Spector, Staff Writer, Greentech Media

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