Cambridge EnerTech’s

Large-Scale Battery Energy Storage Systems

Enabling Large-Scale Storage Through Cell and System Innovation

December 7, 2026 ALL TIMES PST

Large-scale energy storage is becoming central to electrification, underpinning utility-scale systems and backup power as renewable deployment accelerates and grid reliability demands increase. In parallel, large-format cells are advancing higher-capacity applications, including heavy-duty and other energy-intensive sectors. Emerging chemistries and new battery formats beyond traditional lithium-ion are broadening performance capabilities and deployment flexibility. This symposium brings together leaders across the value chain—from cell manufacturers to system integrators—to address key challenges and highlight the innovations shaping large-scale energy storage.

Preliminary Agenda

MARKET AND OVERVIEW

The Cost and Payoff of Safety in ESS: A TechnoEconomic Analysis (TEA) of the Cost Implications of Providing a Safer Battery Cell for a Battery Energy Storage System

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Data Centers and the Power Problem: Energy Storage to the Rescue?

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LARGE SCALE DEPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS

Battery Storage Across Grid and Off-Grid Systems: Stability & Energy Security

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Large Scale BESS for Heavy Duty EV Charging

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SYSTEM DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT IN LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS

Optimizing BESS Batteries

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Reconfigurable Large-Scale Battery System Design and Control to Advance Safety, Performance, and Multi-Life Usage

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Reconfigurable battery systems allow the electrical connections among cells or modules to be dynamically adjusted during operation. The reconfigurability can bring benefits for large-scale battery systems, by enhancing safety, improved fault tolerance, energy utilization, service life, and flexibility in power delivery. In this talk, we will present major design pathways for realizing reconfigurable battery systems, discuss optimal power management to maximize the value of reconfigurability for applications, and highlight promising use cases in energy storage, electric aircraft, and multi-life systems

Battery Intelligence for High-Utilization Heavy-Duty Fleets: Lessons from Electrified Mining

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Electrified mining haulage is proving out battery intelligence as a TCO lever: using embedded controls, cloud analytics, degradation forecasting, and reduced-order models to inform charging, dispatch, usable-energy margins, and maintenance. This talk shows how lessons from Fortescueâ€™s mining operations translate to heavy trucking and other commercial fleets, where battery behavior must become operational decisions to improve uptime, asset life and cost.