Dr. Vincent Sprenkle is the senior strategic advisor for energy storage at PNNL and Director of the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL) - a new DOE Office of Electricity grid energy storage R&D facility for the nation. Vince provides leadership and guidance for PNNL’s R&D activities in support of the DOE Office of Electricity’s energy storage program.
Vince arrived at PNNL in 2001 and has served in a variety of scientific and leadership roles, both at PNNL and for DOE, related to electrochemical energy storage technologies. He has been active in electrochemical technologies for over 25 years and currently holds 32 US patents on fuel cells, batteries, and high temperature electrochemical devices with 17 pending patent applications. He was named PNNL Inventor of the Year in 2014 and Distinguished Inventor of Battelle in 2017. Vince received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in ceramic engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology.