The Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy is having their 2012 Energy Storage Symposium May 2nd: 9am – 5pm and May 3rd: 9am – 12pm. Registration is open and available here!. A fossil-fuel free future requires an energy network with vastly improved capacity to store energy. Columbia University's Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy is hosting a 2-day expert and innovator symposium highlighting the importance and dynamism of energy storage technologies. For more information about the Energy Storage Symposium you can visit the event page at http://energy.columbia.edu/?id=riso-cu_sustainable_fuels_conference.

Here is a quick description provided by The Lenfest Center:

Two weeks remain until the 2012 Energy Storage Symposium, bringing together a wide range of experts to discuss different storage technologies, system constraints that should drive research, and the natural advantages of these technologies. Experts include Klaus Lackner, Columbia University, Mogens Mogensen, Technical University of Denmark, Jay Apt and Jay Whitacre, Carnegie Mellon University, Tim Fox, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Sanjoy Banerjee, CUNY Energy Institute, and more. If you are interested in submitting a poster, please contact us at lcse@ei.columbia.edu.