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TEMPLATE FOR LIVE In-Depth Seminar: Grid Batteries: Valuation, Design, Procurement, and Operations
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Live Event: August 6 & 7  (Eastern Daylight Savings Time)
 
Available Soon (72 hour access)

All things batteries will be taught in context of valuation, design, procurement, and operations with an instructor who is recognized as a leading world expert and practitioner with many years of experience with batteries. You will gain a comprehensive and detailed set of insights of the latest on Grid Batteries with perspectives on markets, regulatory, policy, suppliers, use cases, valuation, design, procurement, commissioning, operations, and advances in software. The instructor will show many real-world examples in the training. Where applicable the Acelerex Grid Analytics planning tools will be used for examples for BESS modeling and simulations.

 

Seminar Agenda
Click each session to see a list of topics covered.
Session 1: Energy Storage Valuation, Planning, Design, Procurement, & Operations
What You Will Learn
  1. Overview of battery technologies
  2. Current battery trends
  3. Mapping of storage technologies with identified services – scorecard
    • Storage technology mapping
    • Methodology
    • Application ranking
    • Competition for Battery Energy Storage? (e.g Hydrogen, LAES, etc.
  4. Energy Storage Value Proposition

Battery energy storage use cases--Energy Arbitrage, Spinning Reserve, Non-Sync Spinning Reserve, Regulation, Operating Reserve, Renewables Integration, EV Charging, Frequency Response, Black Start, and Others

Energy storage benefits for the power system

Identification of electricity storage services to enable higher penetration of VRE – covering methods, etc.

System Value Stacking for Energy Storag

5. Orienting to Value stacking - Financial benefits of Energy Systems Storage Optimizing and Stacking system values:

  • Grid/ Utility values include transmission system, peaking replacement, frequency regulation, distribution, etc.
  • Commercial values include microgrid, demand Charge Reduction - Peak demand shaving, optimizing RE use on site, resiliency - backup power for Utility outages, etc.
  • Limitation of BESS and ways to create value stream.

6. Energy Storage Policy & Planning

Policy case studies with Energy Storage CA, MA, NY and others

Microgrids and Island Grids Roadmap Planning and Policies

Policy Approach’s and Mechanisms

Regulatory metrics

Case studies on various BESS plant focus on utility scale.

Analysis and methodology for the system value of electricity storage vs. other flexibility (ocgt, ccgt, engine, etc) option

Session 2: Sizing and Designing Battery Energy Storage
What You Will Learn
  1. Grid batteries why?, when?, where?, and how much?
  2. Incorporation of Batteries in Transmission Planning, Distribution Planning, and Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs)
  3. Battery Chemistries, Power-Density, Lifecycle.
  4. Comparison on other Competitive Storage Technologies of CSP and others
  5. Cooling, connection analysis, cycling, augmentation, balance of plant, standards, communication systems, software, testing
  6. Design considerations for battery projects, configurations,augmentation, etc.
  7. BESS use cases: voltage support, congestion management, frequency management (spinning reserve and frequency regulation), energy arbitrage etc.
  8. Methodology to identify and determine energy storage services and sizing for various applications for the benefits of system – with exercise.
  9. Alternative Analysis Capacity Investment Analysis with BESS
  10. Production cost hourly and sub-hourly for BESS dispatch
  11. Stacked Services Emulator for temporal and simultaneous use cases.
  12. Evaluation and dispatch strategies for Stacked BESS applications with examples
  13. Power System Studies – BESS Modeling, Interconnection, and Impact Analysis
  14. Dispatch strategies in competitive markets for co-optimization of energy and ancillary services
Session 3: Battery Energy Storage-Advanced Valuation & Financial Modeling
What You Will Learn
  1. Alternative Analysis of answering the Why, Where, When and How Much questions
  2. Production Cost for dispatch and analysis of batteries
  3. Stacked Services Emulator for co-optimization valuation of batteries in competitive markets.
  4. Battery Energy Storage valuation streams like Capacity deferral, fuel savings, VO&M savings, FO&M Savings, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Reserve Savings, Frequency Response, Black Start, T&D deferral, Cost to Load savings
  5. Cost Analysis with efficiency, cycles per day and cycles per year, losses, fade, augmentation, energy costs, capital costs, EPC costs, FOM, VOM, Battery End of Life Costs, others
  6. Assessing the viability of storage projects: System value vs. monetizable revenues – possible with case studies, example etc.
  7. Storage project viability analysis
    • Project feasibility model
    • Financial modeling
    • Monetizable benefits and costs
    • Assigning system value to individual storage projects
    • Economic viability gap and missing money issue
  8. Understanding Financial Benefits of Energy Storage system with case studies
    • Grid / Utility values (Transmission, peaking, frequency, voltage regulation, etc)
    • Commercial Values (peak demand shaving, optimize RE, spinning reserve, backup power, demand charge reduction, etc.)
  9. How current or potential energy storage projects (BESS, etc) and value streams that they used to create positive ROI.
  10. How existing market monetized value streams refers to the non-monetized value streams available to Utilities.
  11. Grid Battery Market Revenue Calculations: ERCOT, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO, CAISO, IESO, AESO, SPP, MISO
  12. Calculating frequency response and ancillary services revenues
  13. Valuation of Capacity Value
  14. Cost and benefit analysis for storage
  15. Detailed financial models for batteries including NPV, IRR, payback, gearing, and others.
  16. Discussion and comparisons on relevant incentive mechanism to support the BESS project, citing examples from international projects implementation.
  17. Assessment Techniques for Hybrid Battery Systems paired with Flow Batteries, Thermal Plant and Renewables
  18. Energy Storage Project Cost (for various application) and LCOE derivation for Worldwide and Asia – with exercise
  19. Energy Storage Life Cycle calculation / analysis / projection – with exercise
  20. Calculating PPA pricing for renewables plus batteries
Session 4: BESS Procurement and Bidding Strategies
What You Will Learn
  1. The good, the bad, and the ugly of battery vendors
  2. Insights into the good, the bad, and the ugly for inverters
  3. Power batteries and Energy Batteries, LFP, Conventional Lithium Ion, Flow Batteries, others
  4. Battery characteristics and costs
  5. Battery Pack Technical Specifications: Storage size, optimum SOC windows, C-rate, battery configuration (series/parallel redundancy; AC or DC couple for hybrid configuration), cell temperature, battery types, relevant degradation issues, location, etc.
  6. PCS, BMS and EMS Technical Specifications: Operation mode, Charging and discharging strategies, monitoring and control of BESS requirements, SCADA requirement and other relevant components.
  7. Bid Strategy working with battery vendors.
  8. Evaluation of potential project bidders, partners, developer – methodology, key items, etc.
  9. Procurement Strategies
  10. Warrantees
  11. EPC, IPP, Storage-as-a-service,  
  12. Project Development covering system design, specification, manufacturers, etc:
    • Grid intertied (Parallel generation and operation)
    • Stand Alone such as Off grid, Micro grids (islands,etc) , Load dedicated (Mines, etc), hybrid
    • Battery chemistries
    • AC vs DC Coupling
    • Layouts and three lines
    • Space planning (kWh/kW per sq ft)
    • Initial cost considerations / differences
  13. Safety Requirements: Fire/safety design aspects and concern of BESS, disposal strategies (end of its useful life), popular standards.
  14. Waste Management for BESS – cost impact to LCOE etc.
  15. Functional specification – sample and review
  16. Origination documents, connection agreements
  17. Sample RFP / Tender documents / Template / Review
  18. Procurement auctions, bid strategy, auctions results, supply and demand, competitive differences
  19. Review of innovative ownership models and how to price them
  20. Stylized facts of auctions for procurement of batteries
  21. Project Implementation – process flow to deploy ESS plant
  22. Analysis and recommendation on energy storage operation
  23. 3rd party aggregators for ESS plant
  24. Available financing options for ESS plants with application mapping – added with case studies – for utilities, commercial industrial, and residential.
  25. Ways to attracts 3rd party financing options (any program or key enabler to boost the development of ESS plants)
  26. Example available experts
    • EPC/ Consultants
    • Commissioning Agent
    • O&M Team
  27. Site Prep process
    • Land Acquisition / Permits
    • Foundation / Pad
    • Equipment delivery / installation
Session 5: BESS Commissioning and Performance Testing
What You Will Learn
  1. Use-cases and Performance Compliance Testing
  2. Battery testing standards as part of the commissioning of battery projects
  3. Grid BESS Performance measures – types of compliance and typical tests to demonstrate use cases.
  4. Commissioning Procedures
  5. Advance battery controls and automation
  6. Testing Protocols
  7. Testing Signals
  8. Battery Communication Systems
  9. IoT Testing Analyzer and Data Collection
  10. Examples of Live Battery Projects and Operational Data
  11. Commissioning process and important testing
  12. Operation and O&M includes important inspections such as safety, mechanical, etc.
Session 6: Forecasting, AI, and Blockchain Applications for BESS
What You Will Learn
  1. Artificial Intelligence applications for battery dispatch
  2. Nodal long-term forecasting for battery valuation
  3. AI predictions for solar, wind, demand and electricity prices
  4. Block Chain Performance Management for Batteries
  5. Big Data Analytics approaches to scanning for battery value across 1000’s of nodes.
  6. Data mining algorithms
  7. Parallelization of battery analytics algorithms
  8. Cloud Computing
  9. ESS applications with EVs

 

How This Online Course Works

Get the best of both worlds with this blended learning approach.

  1. Learn at your own pace and on your own schedule as you first enjoy the internet-streamed, on-demand seminar. Speed up, slow down, or repeat sections of the presentation.
  2. Upon completion, join us for one of our regularly scheduled live online Q&A sessions. A calendar of live Q&A dates and times is provided in the program access instructions you will receive. You can also email your questions directly to the instructor.
Course Access

You will receive immediate online access to the on-demand training presentation. The audio for the online seminar is only available through your computer or other Internet connected device. You will also receive links in your access instructions to PDFs for all the presentation materials in case you want to print or keep a copy.

The on-demand training presentations are available for a total of 72 hours from the time any one of the training presentations is first accessed. After 72 hours, your access to the on-demand presentations will expire. However the PDF formatted training program slides and other documents you receive are yours to keep.

Your Instructor
Dr. Randell Johnson
CEO Acelerex

Dr. Johnson is CEO of Acelerex and has expertise and experience in the Valuation, Design, Procurement, and Operations of Grid Batteries

Dr. Johnson has been involved in the Energy Storage Road Map for the Maldives, Bermuda Energy Storage Sizing Study, New York Energy Storage Road Map, Massachusetts State of Charge Study, MISO Energy Storage Study, Ontario Energy Storage Study, and numerous other energy storage studies. He was selected by the World Bank to study 100% carbon-free grids with energy storage and Acelerex software and methods were selected by the International Agency for increasing penetration of renewables with energy storage. Dr. Johnson has invented and developed software for battery analytics and battery real time control. He is expert at power markets and valuation of energy storage to maximize utilization of existing transmission systems and co-optimization of transmission and other resources in addition of co-optimization of energy and ancillary services. A Harvard Business Case has been written for energy storage that includes methods pioneered by Dr. Johnson.

Dr. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS in Economics from Cass Business School, UK, and a Utility Corporate Finance Certificate for Gas and Electric Utilities from UConn Business School. Dr. Johnson has background in strategy, regulatory finance, economic optimizations, quantitative finance, electricity and energy markets, public policy, technical grid design, real-time optimizations, and high-performance computing.

Program Pricing
$1,795 for single attendee, $1,395 per attendee thereafter.
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Prerequisites and Advance Preparation

This fundamental online training program has no prerequisites. No advance preparation is required.

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