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2025 IEEE Miami Section: Grid Energy Storage Technologies and Applications
February 17 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
“Grid Energy Storage Technologies and Applications“
Monday, February 17, 2025 | 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM EST
Location: EC 3930, 10555 W Flagler St, Miami, FL 33174
Zoom – Meeting ID: 412 511 0852| Passcode: H2tGgg
Dr. Babu Chalamala,
Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories,
Senior Member, IEE
Theme of session: The electric grid is poised for transformative changes. Generation and load profiles are changing rapidly, the pace of integrating renewables is accelerating, and an increasing focus on the electrification of transportation sector. There are significant engineering challenges for grid readiness to support renewable integration, electrification, and decarbonization of industrial sector. Modernizing the electric grid requires integration of a range of new technologies into the grid infrastructure. How to manage the future grid while ensuring grid reliability and resilience requires large scale integration of energy storage, a greater role for power electronics, wide area sensing, distributed controls and communications. This presentation will review industry plans for grid modernization, discuss the role of energy storage and highlight current and emerging energy storage technologies and their applications.
Dr. Babu Chalamala is a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Earlier, he was Head of the Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department and Program Manager for Grid Energy Storage at the laboratory. Prior to joining Sandia in 2015, he was a Corporate Fellow at MEMC Electronic Materials/SunEdison where he led R&D and product development in energy storage technology. Earlier, as a research staff member at Motorola and Texas Instruments, he made contributions to vacuum microelectronics and flat panel display technologies. He also had founding roles in two startup companies.
He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Power and Energy Society and a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, and the National Academy of Inventors. In 2024, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received the IEEE USA Harry Diamond Memorial Award. He currently serves as IEEE PES Vice President of Conferences and Meetings and as a Senior Editor of IEEE Access.