Celebrate World Energy Storage Day and Join #WESD Global Conference & Expo on 22nd Sept 2020!!

On the 4th World Energy Storage Day, India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA), India’s leading alliance on energy storage & e-mobility is organizing a one-of-its-kind Global Conference & Expo to develop a global ecosystem. The event will be held virtually on September 22, 2020 across four regions encompassing sessions on Policy and Government Initiatives, Stationary Energy Storage Panel Discussion, E-Mobility Panel and Latest innovations and developments in the energy sector.

2019 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Dr Stanley Whittingham is the Keynote speaker who is currently working as a professor of Chemistry in Binghamton University, State University of New York. The event will bring together 75+ global thought leaders and policy makers to share insights on latest developments and trends in the policy, technology, and business landscape in each of the four global regions.

To capitalize on this opportunity, participants from over 60 countries already registered.

The energy storage sector has come a long way in past decade and is seen as enabler for transformation towards greener grid and cleaner transportation.  The development of this sector is the result of the hard work and passion of all stakeholders around the globe.

To celebrate the growing importance of energy storage, the Global Energy Storage Alliance started celebrating 22 September as World Energy Storage Day (WESD) in 2017.  Over past three years, the IESA and its partners celebrated WESD with various national-level events to spread the word within each region.

This year, with COVID limiting international travel, all the alliances decided to opt for a virtual platform to jointly celebrate the WESD with this unique conference. For the first time a marathon online event dedicated to the energy storage and EV industry has been organized on this scale with a sole aim of encouraging international collaborations and accelerating adoption of these technologies around the globe.

WESD Global Conference is supported by over 30 partners including, International Solar Alliance and World Bank- ESMAP.

Niti Aayog, Invest India and Department of Science and Technology are the India partners and Government of Australia is the partner country.

The event has received support from global alliances and organisations, such as the Alliance for Rural Electrification; The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (Assocham), The Australian Energy Storage Alliance; BVES- the  German Association of Energy Storage Systems; California Energy Storage Alliance; China Energy Storage Alliance; The US Clean Energy States Alliance; Dii Desert Energy; The US Energy Storage Association; European Alliance for Storage of Energy; European Battery Alliance (EBA250); Green Hydrogen Coalition; Indo German Energy Forum, Innovation Norway; Institute of Management Consultants of India; Irish Energy Storage Alliance, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, South Africa Energy Storage Association. Customized Energy Solutions is the presenting partner for the event and Amara Raja, Exicom, Okaya, UL, BASF, Keysight Technologies, and Curtis have also joined as partners for this global event.

For more details, please check (https://energystorageday.org/event/partners/).

Delegate registration is free. Register at https://worldenergystorageday.dreamcast.in/

*Find attached the brochure of WESD

25 August 2020

IESA