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Newark, DE, USA
The Battery Safety Workshop (BSW) was launched in Charlotte, NC, in 2022, attracting around 100 attendees from universities, national labs, and industries each year.
This year, we’ve broadened the scope of the workshop from a traditional focus on battery safety to a more comprehensive vision of battery sustainability. While we will retain the term “safety” to preserve the workshop’s identity and legacy, we seek to define “safety” in a broader and more integrative sense. This expanded framework encompasses not only thermal and mechanical safety but long-term durability, safe and scalable manufacturing, responsible critical mineral processing, and recycling technologies. Through this broader lens, we aim to address the full lifecycle challenges of next-generation battery systems, from materials sourcing to end-of-life management.
The 2026 Battery Safety Workshop, hosted by the University of Delaware, will bring together leading experts from academia, industry, and national laboratories to address the growing challenges of battery safety across the energy storage landscape. As battery technologies become increasingly vital to transportation, grid storage, and consumer electronics, this workshop will focus on advancing safe design, material sustainability and recycling, testing, and deployment practices. The event will feature invited speakers, technical sessions, and networking opportunities covering key topics such as thermal runaway, mechanical abuse testing, predictive modeling, and regulatory developments. By fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, BSW 2026 aims to accelerate the development of safer, more reliable, and commercially viable battery systems for a sustainable future.
Budapest, Hungary
The International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF®)—the leading event for the flow battery community—will take place from 16 to 18 June 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, at the Intercontinental Hotel (and online), gathering 350 flow battery experts from all over the world.
The IFBF is the annual event promoting the most recent developments in the commercialisation and technological advancements of flow batteries—rechargeable electrochemical energy storage systems that store energy in liquid electrolytes.
Covering a broad range of interests in the research and industrial aspects of flow batteries, the conference brings together users, manufacturers, suppliers, policymakers, academics, and students from across the globe to raise the profile of flow batteries within the energy storage sector. Over three days, the IFBF agenda will highlight recent global developments in flow battery technology, including large-scale installations, AI and data centre applications, transport uses, and advances in research and manufacturing, with policy presentations, panel discussions, and market forecasts.
Please contact us for further information.
Istanbul, Turkey
On 1–2 July 2026, the Energy Storage & Sustainable Circularity Conference (ESSC 2026) will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye, hosted by SUNUM—Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research Center. ESSC 2026 is an international forum dedicated to advances in energy storage technologies, integrated energy systems, and the water–energy nexus, bringing together researchers, industry experts, and policy stakeholders from around the world.
The conference covers a broad range of topics including next-generation battery chemistries, battery materials and manufacturing, battery system integration and management, performance diagnostics and control, AI-driven digital twins, circularity and end-of-life strategies, as well as water–energy interactions such as energy-efficient water treatment and brine valorization.
ESSC 2026 provides a high-level platform for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research, innovative system concepts, and techno-economic, environmental, and policy perspectives relevant to sustainable and circular energy systems.
More information is available at https://www.essc-conference.org.
The Special Issue “Energy Storage and Sustainable Circularity: Materials, Systems, and Lifecycle Approaches” is a collaboration between ESSC 2026 and Batteries.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/batteries/special_issues/3A29BS187E
The scope of this Special Issue aligns with research themes discussed at the ESSC 2026 and encourages submissions that bridge materials innovation, system-level performance, and sustainability considerations. Experimental and theoretical studies, as well as application-driven research relevant to mobility, grid storage, and long-duration energy storage are encouraged.