From left to right: Carine Steinway (Saft), Greg Hitz (ISS), Robert Briber (UMD), Samuel Graham (UMD), Eitan Yudilevich, Paul Albertus (UMD), Eric Wachsman (UMD), Keith Gregorczyk (UMD), and Barry Bogage (MD/Israel Development)

BIRD Foundation Executive Director, Dr. Eitan Yudilevich, visited the University of Maryland on October 5th, 2021, to learn more about the activities on the U.S. side of the $18.4M, five-year Energy Storage Consortium that was awarded by the U.S.-Israel Energy Center in 2020 and is managed by the BIRD Foundation. Representatives from UMD (the U.S. lead) and consortium member partners, including Ion Storage Systems and Saft, discussed their current and planned research and commercialization activities on solid state battery components and cells.  In addition, Dr. Yudilevich met with UMD’s A. James Clark Engineering School leadership to discuss potential future areas of interest for the BIRD foundation sponsors, and the academic / industrial consortium model used in the U.S.-Israel Energy Center.