Greening the Grid: Utility-Scale Battery Storage

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Note: The webinar will be happen on 27 February 2019 in the United States, which will be 28 February 2019 in Europe.

9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time | 3:00 a.m. Central European Time
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Register now at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5783716332100546049.

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The Clean Energy Solutions Center, in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), hosted this webinar titled Utility-Scale Battery Storage: When, Where, Why and How Much. The webinar is part of the Greening the Grid platform, a USAID and NREL collaboration designed to support countries in integrating renewable energy into the power system.

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Increasing need for system flexibility combined with rapid decreases in the system costs for battery technology have increased interest from policymakers and system operators about the potential role of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in power systems. BESS can perform a range of grid system services and can provide value to the power system through various applications, including transmission and distribution upgrade deferral, energy arbitrage, “black starts,” demand shifting, capacity firming and reductions in the curtailment of variable renewable energy. However, the value of BESS for system operators or project developers is location-specific and depends on many factors, including penetration levels of renewable energy, existing system flexibility and the regulatory context under which the BESS is deployed. This webinar introduced key concepts for understanding the value of BESS; reviewed the services they can provide to the grid; and explored when, where, why and how BESS can be deployed economically.

The webinar was presented by Paul Denholm of NREL. It was followed by an interactive question and answer session with the audience, moderated by Jennifer Leisch from USAID.