The NY-BEST Annual meeting and conference was held March 9 & 10, 2010 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Troy, NY.
The agenda was packed with opportunities to network as well as NY-BEST business and informational panel discussions about our industry. A copy of the agenda is available here: Agenda. The master slide show for the main conference is available here: slides
You may also be interested in reviewing these two slideshows which were on display during Tuesday's networking reception:
- The first documents some of NY-BEST's progress to date: slides.
- The second provides some insights into market opportunities of electro-chemical energy storage: slides.
NY-BEST Business
Two main items of business were conducted:
- Election of our new board, please read more about our new board members here: www.ny-best.org/ny-best_board
- Ratification of our bylaws.
Panel Discussion
Two high energy panel discussions were held on "Market Pull needs and opportunities for energy storage in medium and heavy-duty electric vehicle applications and grid storage" and "Testing and characterization capabilities, access and usage policies and fees, and best practices to leverage existing capabilities".
Where possible the slides provided by each of the speakers are included here:
Panel discussion: market-pull needs and opportunities for energy storage in medium and heavy-duty electric vehicle applications and grid storage
Moderated by Matt Fronk, Director of the Center for Sustainable Mobility – RIT
- Glen Merfeld, Manager, of Chemical Energy Systems Lab – General Electric
- Tom Russell, Vice President of Technology – Ultralife Corporation
- Bob Hess, Senior Engineer for Energy Storage Systems – BAE Systems - slides
- Mark Mathias, Director Electrochemical Energy Research Lab – General Motors - slides
- Jim Misewich, Assoc Lab Director – Brookhaven Nat’l Lab/NY Smart Grid Consortium - slides
- Hank McGlynn, President – AEYCH, LLC - slides
Panel discussion: testing and characterization capabilities, access and usage policies and fees, and best practices to leverage existing capabilities
Moderated by Karin Ezbiansky-Pavese. Dr. Pavese also gave a presentation about the Testing Capabilities Survey conducted by NYAS - slides
- Chi-Chang Kao, Chair - National Synchrotron Light Source – Brookhaven Nat’l Lab - slides
- Keith Cummings, Dayton T. Brown, Inc. - slides
- Paul Mutolo, Director of External Partnerships, EFRC – Cornell University slides
- Stan Whittingham, Dir of Institute for Materials Research – Binghamton University - slides
- Alain Diebold, Professor and Director of Metrology – University at Albany CNSE
