Long Duration Energy Storage USA 2026

Welcome to Long-Duration Energy Storage 2026, where utilities, developers, investors, and technology innovators come together to advance scalable storage for a reliable, resilient, and low-carbon power system.

As renewable generation grows, the grid needs storage that can shift power over longer durations, support resource adequacy, and manage peak demands and extreme weather events. The event covers new battery, thermal, mechanical, and hybrid systems, along with improved market design, permitting, and finance to support deployment.

Join us to gain practical insights, explore solutions, and strengthen your strategy for long-duration energy storage.

Exploring LDES market trends, demand drivers, and deployment forecasts

Understand how U.S. forecasts, demand, and investment trends shape the LDES business case across utilities, industry, data centers, and power-to-X markets.

R&D-driven performance breakthroughs in long-duration energy storage systems

Uncover the latest breakthroughs in storage chemistry, novel materials, energy management systems, and EMS software advancing LDES performance, cycle life, and cost.

Mitigating deployment risks using safety, financing, and revenue strategies

Comprehend how the industry manages FOAK risk, safety standards, revenue certainty, and financing structures to reduce risk in the first wave of LDES projects.

Advancing storage technologies across commercial and grid-scale applications

Evaluate flow batteries, iron-air, CAES, thermal, and gravity storage by efficiency, cost benchmarks, duration capability, and manufacturing scale-up readiness.

Integrating storage across grids and commercial uses for system resilience

Analyze how LDES is deployed across grid services, renewable co-location, and industrial sites to deliver multi-day resilience and capacity adequacy.

Policy, regulation, and market design updates to accelerate LDES rollout

Examine how FERC reforms, state mandates, FEOC rules, and duration-based capacity markets are building the U.S. regulatory foundation for LDES.

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