Power Lab member Jenny Nicolas attended the 2026 DTU Power & Energy Systems (PES) Summer School from May 18–22 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The PES Summer School covered topics such as electricity market design, power system stability, and energy communities, among others. There was a large focus on leveraging AI-based methods to enhance energy system reliability and security.
Jenny presented her research poster “Socio-Political Factors Driving Solar Deployment: Streamlining US Energy Planning” and won the award for best poster. The prize: Jenny was added to the workshop agenda to give a talk about her research.
Jenny also attended the 249th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting from May 24–28 in Seattle, Washington. The ECS Meetings covered research from basic electrochemistry and solid state science up to the device-level focused on the theme of sustainable technologies such as batteries and fuel cells. She presented her research “From Images to Insights: A Statistical Metric for Quantifying Lithium Metal Morphology Evolution.” She received a Student Presentation Award for this work.