DAY 1
Introduction
Policy and Regulatory: trends, cost and benefit metrics, policy approaches
Valuation: use cases, methods, approaches, techniques, algorithms
Design: cycling, cooling, standards, engineering, connection analysis
Procurement: strategy, documents, vendors, EPC
Operations: outages, dispatch, losses, testing, automation
Policy and Regulatory
Case studies of NY, MA, CA, and others
Policy Approach’s and Mechanisms
Regulatory benefit-cost metrics
Battery Technologies
Overview of battery technologies
Current trends in battery research
Vendors
The good, the bad, and the ugly of battery vendors
Power batteries and Energy Batteries, LFP, Conventional Lithium-Ion, Flow Batteries, others
Battery characteristics and costs
Strategy working with battery vendors
Use Cases
Energy Arbitrage, Spinning Reserve, Non-Sync Spinning Reserve, Regulation, Operating Reserve, Renewables Integration, EV Charging, Frequency Response, Black Start, Others
Planning Processes and Integrated Resource Plans
Case studies of answering questions of the why, where, when, how much
Incorporation of Batteries in Transmission Planning, Distribution Planning, and IRPs
Alternative Analysis Capacity Investment Analysis with BESS
Production cost hourly and sub-hourly for BESS dispatch
Stacked Services Emulator for temporal and simultaneous use cases
System Benefits Metrics with BESS
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
Operations
Outages, losses, fade, Operations and Maintenance Costs
Competitive Market Analysis
Market Revenue Examples ERCOT, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO, CAISO, IESO, AESO, SPP, MISO
Calculating revenue in day-ahead schedule
Calculating revenue in real-time schedule
Calculating frequency response and ancillary services revenues
Valuation of Capacity Value
Cost Analysis
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
Financial Analysis
BESS NPV analysis, DCF, WACC, Gearing, Sensitivities, Others
DAY 2:
Analytical Concepts and Theory Overview for BESS Valuation
Alternative Analysis of answering the Why, Where, When and How Much questions
Production Cost for dispatch and analysis of batteries
Stacked Services Emulator for co-optimization valuation of batteries in competitive markets
