While utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) can provide a variety of transmission and distribution grid services, value stacking can be difficult to implement in practice. A key challenge is the required integration and collaboration between multiple resource scheduling and network management systems – e.g. ETRM, EMS, ADMS, DRMS, and DERMS.

A utility panel will discuss their strategies to maximize the value of BESS investments by enabling intelligent enterprise control collaboration. 

• Identify the various economic, reliability, and resiliency use cases for BESS, including those encouraged by FERC 2222
• Compare different scheduling approaches, processes, and requirements
• Discuss some of the technical challenges of BESS integration and control collaboration
• Utility lessons learned using BESS for peak load shaping, demand response, volt/var control, spinning reserves, frequency regulation, and cold load pickup
• Insights into the architecture, design, and key standards of successful solutions

The panel will be moderated by Qualus and include representatives from NV Energy, Nova Scotia Power, and NREL.