20th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 

DELIVERING ENERGY SMARTER

May 4-6, 2010

Charlotte, NC

ATTENDEE LIST - FINAL

 

1. Ali Nourai - Chairman’s Address
ESA Chairman

Presentation

 

 

2. Dr. Imre Gyuk - Stimulus Projects are Launching Real Grid Solutions! 
Manager Energy Storage Systems Program, DOE

Presentation

 

 

SESSION: US Grid Storage:

Session Chair: Rick Winter, Meeting Agenda Chairman and Founder & CEO, Primus Power

3. Mike Rowand - Grid Storage Roadmap
Duke Energy, Director Technology Strategy 

Presentation

4. Dan Rastler - Energy Storage Markets, Application and Value Analysis
Director Energy Storage and Distributed Energy Resources, EPRI,

Presentation

5. Jim McDowall - Community Energy Storage and the Value of Flexibility
Business Development Manager, Saft America

Presentation

 

 

SESSION: Diverse Grid Storage Value Propositions
Session Chair: Eva Gardow, FirstEnergy

6. Prescott Logan - Creating a Better Energy Ecosystem

    GM for Energy Storage Technologies, GE

 

7. Bill Erdman - Wind Storage President

    BEW Engineering – Inventor of the Modern Wind Turbine

Presentation

8. Colette Lamontagne - The Solar Storage Value Proposition

    Associate Director Energy, Navigant Consulting Inc.

Presentation

9. John Parker - Value and Risk of Pumped Storage Plants
VP, HDR Decision Economics

Presentation

10. Rick Fioravanti - Assessment of Jobs Created by Storage Legislation

    Director Storage Applications & Support, KEMA

Presentation

 

 

SESSION: Electricity Storage Around the World

Session Chair: Jim McDowall, SAFT

11. Ralph Masiello - North America

    Senior VP, KEMA 

Presentation

12. John Wood - Chinese Energy Storage

    CEO, Ecoult 

Presentation

13. Michael Lippert - European Grid Storage

    Marketing Manager, SAFT Batteries 

Presentation

14. Glenn Walden - Australian Community Energy Storage Initiative

    GM Corporate Development, Ergon Energy 

Presentation

15. Chris Shelton - South American Grid Storage Applications

    President, AES Energy Storage

Presentation

16. Akimichi Okimoto - Grid Scale Applications of NAS Batteries around the World

    GM, NAS Engineering Department NGK

Presentation

 

 

SESSION: VC Panel Session

Session Chair: Brad Roberts, ESA Executive Director  

A leading group of venture firms in the Cleantech field will discuss the tremendous acceleration of grid storage as a pivotal link in the further deployment of renewables and the roll-out of the smart grid

 

 

 

SESSION: Emerging Products

Session Chair: John Boyes, Program Manager. Energy Storage Systems, Sandia National Labs

17. Nicola Cosciani - Simple Sodium Batteries: New Applications for a Proven Technology

      Director of Strategic Development, FIAMM Group and co-CEO of FZ Sonick

Presentation

18. Chris Winter - Reducing the Cost of Electricity Infrastructure

      CEO, RedFlow

Presentation

19. Steve Clarke - Bipolar Pb-acid Batteries for EV’s and Grid Storage

      CEO, Applied Intellectual Capital

Presentation

20. Michael Sterner - Renewable Methane: Storing Renewables by Linking Power & Gas Grids
Head of Energy Economy and System Analysis, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology - Germany

Presentation

21. Robert Misback - Advanced Technologies for Utility Scale Storage
Senior Director of Energy Storage Solutions, Altairnano

Presentation

22. Eric Apfelbach - ZESS 500: Load Management Power Quality Renewable Energy CEO, ZBB Energy

No Presentation

 

 

SESSION: Economic Policy

Session Chair: Haresh Kamath, Senior Project Manager, EPRI

23. Robert Schainker - No Fuel Adiabatic CAES
Senior Technical Executive, EPRI Power Delivery & Utilization Sector

Presentation

24. Janice Lin - Influencing Policy for the Rapid Adoption of Grid Storage
Cofounder & Director, CESA – California Energy Storage Association

Presentation

25.  Elise Zoli – Establishing Economic Policy that Advances Energy Storage Innovation
Partner, Goodwin Procter

No Presentation

26. Rahul Walawalkar - Recent Policy Changes in Electricity Markets
VP, Emerging Technology & Markets, Customized Energy Solutions

Presentation

 

 

Representative Tom Sloan - U.S. Energy Policy Issues & Incentives
Kansas Legislature

Presentation

 

 

SESSION: Select DOE Projects

Session Chair: Imre Gyuk, Program Manager, Energy Storage Systems, DOE

27. Sally Miksiewicz - Ancillary Services with Lead-Carbon Batteries

      CEO, East Penn Manufacturing

Presentation

28. Hal La Flash - Utility-Scale Load Shifting with Compressed Air

      Director Emerging Clean Technologies, PG&E 

Presentation

29. Rick Winter - Wind Firming EnergyFarm™ 

      CEO & Founder, Primus Power

Presentation

30. Bill Capp - Transmission-Scale Frequency Regulating Flywheels

      CEO, Beacon Power

Presentation

31. Andy Chu - Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project

      VP Marketing & Business Development, A123

Presentation

32. Dax Kepshire - Above-Ground Isothermal CAES

      President & Cofounder, SustainX

Presentation

 

 

SESSION: Technology Radar – Updates on New and Existing Technologies

Session Chair: Mark Johnson, Program Director of Grid Scale Energy Storage, ARPA-E

33. Craig Horne - Bulk Storage Flow Battery with KTech

      CEO, EnerVault

Presentation

34. Ben Rogers- Zinc Air Batteries for Bulk Storage

      COO, Grid Storage Technologies

Presentation

35. Greg Tropsa - Ice Bear Distributed Energy Storage

      Exec VP, Ice Energy

Presentation

36. Bill Gray - Flexible Flywheel Energy Storage

      CEO, Velkess

Presentation

37. Trygve Burchardt - High Energy Zinc-Air Technology

      CSO & Founder, ReVolt

Presentation

38. Rob Webster - Compressed Gas Energy Storage

      GM, Western Energy Hub

Presentation

39. Ilan Gur - Solid State Lithium Ion Batteries

      Cofounder & Dir Bus Dev, Seeo

Presentation

40. Luis Ortiz - All Liquid Metal Batteries

      Research Director, MIT

Presentation

41. Jim Hodge - Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries

      CTO, K2

Presentation

42. Leo Casey - Adding Storage to Renewable DC Backbones

      VPE & CTO, Satcon

Presentation