CANCELED: Jones Seminar: Raising the Bar for Energy Storage R&D—Advancing how storage enhances the grid

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Meeting ID: 935 8655 7757
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity's (OE) energy storage research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) portfolio accelerates innovation to deliver a reliable, secure, and affordable storage solutions. This overview highlights OE's initiatives to advance technologies from concept to grid validation, diversify beyond lithium-based chemistries to mitigate supply chain risks, and improve bankability.  It discusses emerging use cases—from critical infrastructure resilience to second-order system optimization—alongside enabling tools for valuation, modeling, and decision support. Finally, it recognizes the value of collaboration and expert assistance opportunities for utilities, regulators, industry partners, and other decision-makers to accelerate deployment and ensure affordable access to energy storage solutions.  

Attendees will gain insight into OE's efforts to broaden domestic supply chains, validate next-generation storage systems under real-world conditions, and improve integration of energy storage solutions that strengthen the grid and support national energy objectives. The OE energy storage portfolio, collectively, strives to advance next-generation solutions, strengthen the energy storage ecosystem, and drive system-level innovations to accelerate market readiness and deployment. 

Hosted by Professor Jifeng Liu.

About the Speaker(s)

Caitlin Callaghan
Director of Storage Materials & Systems, US Department of Energy

Caitlin Callaghan is the director of storage materials and systems at the Office of Electricity (OE) in the US Department of Energy. Her team evaluates and advances high-potential energy storage technologies to reach the prototype stage. This includes identifying future supply chain and workforce requirements and leveraging DOE-wide efforts to serve expected deployment targets. 

Caitlin returned to OE after serving as the Research and Engineering Division chief at USACE's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. She previously served in OE's Transmission Permitting and Technical Assistance Division, leading the energy-water nexus efforts and providing expertise on environmental aspects of the electricity system, and was also the program lead for OE's Electricity Policy Technical Assistance Program. Caitlin holds a Juris Doctor and Master of Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School, a PhD and MS in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a BS in chemical engineering from the University of New Hampshire.

Contact

For more information, contact Amos Johnson at amos.l.johnson@dartmouth.edu.