Optimizing Energy Storage for Utility Operations

October 10-11, 2024 | Online :: Central Time

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This course offers a concise overview of energy storage systems (ESS), covering various types, their operational characteristics, and the suitability of different storage technologies to fulfill specific roles on the grid — such as fast frequency response, energy shifting, and smoothing. By understanding these aspects, utility professionals will gain insights into how different storage solutions can support various operational needs in a utility context.

Key elements covered in the program include:

• Limitations of Energy Storage – Understanding the constraints of different storage types and their potential impact on utility operations
• Costing for Storage Facilities – Methods for calculating the costs associated with developing and maintaining each type of energy storage facility
• Complementary Operational Technologies – Exploring alternative and complementary technologies, such as demand-side management, that can work in tandem with energy storage
• Operational Planning and Control – Topics include load flow analysis, operational planning, abnormal operations, and other key issues
• Deployment Scenarios – Assessing various operational scenarios for the deployment of energy storage systems in a utility setting

Learning Outcomes

• Discuss the dozen or so operational roles that ESS can perform
• Review the eight discrete types of ESS and their potential applications in the utility operations context
• Examine the limits that ESS are subject to
• Explain how to assemble a coherent ESS operational strategy and portfolio
• Create ESS costing profiles to guide operations
• Evaluate market bidding, ISO/RTO operations and in-market PPAs scenarios
• Identify transmission and distribution deployment options
• Discuss control, monitoring and regulatory overlays that frame ESS utility operations

Thursday, October 10, 2024 : Central Time

 

9:00 – 9:20 a.m. :: Overview and Introductions

9:20 – 10:30 a.m. :: Review of ESS Types

• Batteries
• Flow batteries
• Gravity storage
• Thermal storage
• Flywheels and kinetic storage
• Pumped storage
• Other forms of storage

ESS Operational Roles

• Smoothing
• Fast frequency response
• Demand shaving
• Short term voltage support
• Curtailment reduction
• Day/night shifting
• Firming
• Long duration load support
• Heavy vehicle charging
• Replacing peaker plants
• Powering microgrids
• Other

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. :: Morning Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. :: ESS Characteristics

• Definitions of the characteristics
• Importance of these characteristics
• How they may interact
• Energy capacity and its impact on “stacking”

12:15 – 1:00 p.m. :: Lunch Break

1:00 – 2:45 p.m. :: Limits to Storage

• Finite energy
• Finite capacity
• Charging (windows and duration)
• Dynamics energy costs
• Fixed number of cycles
• When it is empty
• Storage minimums and maximums for regular charging and system health

Putting the Pieces Together

• What do you have in the way of storage
• What do you need in the way of storage support
• Are the changes seasonal?
• What if any demand side management do you have

2:45 – 3:00 p.m. :: Afternoon Break

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. :: Creating Costing

• What is the best window economically to charge? Discharge?
• What is the best window operationally to charge? Discharge?
• What other programs are available and what is their cost?
• Which roles can other programs fill?
• Creating economic ranking by role, by storage facility
• How to use the costing information
• Distribution
• Transmission
• In a market

Discussion

4:30 p.m. :: Course Adjourns for Day

 

Friday, October 11, 2024 : Central Time

 

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. :: ESS Market Considerations

• Bidding to charge considerations
• Bidding to discharge considerations
• Turning the facility operations over to the ISO/RTO
• Benefits
• Concerns
• Creating in-market PPAs
• Wheeling
• Force majeure on energy availability

ESS Transmission Considerations

• Size is key in comparison to line capacity
• Does the storage help or hurt the capacity when an 8760 analysis is done?
• When does it help to charge? Discharge?
• When does it hurt to charge? Discharge?
• Do you have some say in location of future storage?
• Do you want to own, operate or just host storage
• What is the impact of on-site storage at legacy interconnections
• What else do you want to know

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. :: Morning Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. :: ESS Distribution Considerations

• Do you let them export?
• How do you size Behind the meter systems?
• Do you require them for new solar interconnections?
• Utility owned, third-party owned, premise owner?
• Monitor or just estimate?
• Generation meters
• Storage meters
• Inverter data
• Tariff or rider for storage operations
• Aggregate or not?

Control, Monitor or Ignore?

• FERC 901A and FERC 2023, as well as FERC 841/842 and 2222
• NERC and FERC requirements now and in the future
• Points list
• Operating windows
• Abnormal operations
• Microgrid and gridlets
• Transmission obligations
• Distribution obligations
• Limited and no export

Discussion

12:15 p.m. :: Course Adjournment

Doug Houseman is Senior Managing Consultant & Utility Modernization Lead for 1898 & Co., a division of Burns and McDonnell.  He has been working on storage issues since 1980, when he was involved with a number of DOD projects.  As an industry veteran, he has worked on all seven continents and in more than 70 countries on grid-related issues.  Before joining the Burns & McDonnell organization, Mr. Houseman was Vice President for Technical Innovation at EnerNex, and the CTO for Energy at Capgemini.  He is the Chairman of the IEEE PES Grid and Emerging Technology Coordinating Committee, a member of several standards working groups, and the author of CEATI’s Distribution Utility Technology Roadmap, as well as the Low Carbon Menu.  In addition, Mr. Houseman is a member of the Gridwise Architecture Council (GWAC), chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Intelligent Grid and Emerging Technology Coordinating Committee, and a NIST Resiliency Fellow.

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Optimizing Energy Storage for Utility Operations

October 10-11, 2024 | Online

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Upon successful completion of this event, program participants interested in receiving CPE credits will receive a certificate of completion.

Course CPE Credits: 11.0
There is no prerequisite for this Course.
Program field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based
Advanced Preparation: None

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Who Should Attend

Individuals working in the following areas will benefit from attending this event: 

• Utility resource planning staff 
• Utility project management staff
• Utility ESS interconnection and other technical staff 
• Utility finance staff
• Utility solicitation / procurement staff 
• Regulators and regulatory staff 
• ESS integrators and EPCs
• ESS equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
• ESS consultants