Battery Energy Storage Systems: Design and Performance
This course, developed in partnership with IEEE Power and Energy Society, covers the key technical factors that influence the design, operation, and ultimately the economic success of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in grid-connected projects. It outlines the major sub-systems of a BESS and introduces grid interconnection standards and modeling. These standards and models are used to explain the minimum performance capabilities required for BESS to maintain grid reliability and to provide grid services. The course includes a discussion on Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES), an emerging trend that will shape future BESS design and applications. The course concludes with several brief examples of BESS projects used in grid applications.
What you will learn:
- Explain the design of standalone and collocated BESS configurations
- Describe core aspects of interconnection performance standards and modeling that facilitate grid integration and applications by BESS
- Explain the operational characteristics of Long-duration energy storage (LDES)
This course is part of the following course program:
Battery Energy Storage Technologies and Applications
Courses included in this program:
Who should attend: Practicing engineers, Regulators and policy makers, Power grid operators, Renewable energy integrators, Overall energy market stakeholders
Instructors
Charlie Vartanian
Charlie Vartanian has over 30 years of experience deploying advanced grid technologies, performing electric power system studies, and contributing to technical standards development. Charlie currently consults to the Sandia National Laboratories supporting development of energy storage standards. He previously worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric, DNV KEMA, UET, A123 Systems, Enron, the CA Energy Commission, and Southern California Edison. During his 15 years at SCE, Charlie’s activities spanned grid planning studies through R&D projects including SCE’s Chino and Catalina BESS projects. He is a currently Secretary of the IEEE P1547.4 microgrid interconnection guide and is Secretary of the IEEE ESSB’s Energy Storage Collaboration Team. Charlie received his MSEE from USC. Charlie is a licensed professional Electrical Engineer and a senior member of the IEEE.
Dr. Jay Liu
Jay Liu is currently VP of Transmission at Exus Renewables where he oversees renewable energy resources' grid integration, operation and transmission services. Prior to joining Exus, he worked at PJM and ISO-NE in energy infrastructure development and operation. Jay has been engaging in grid transformation into sustainable and resilient energy infrastructures in the past three decades, with an industry record of adding more than 28,000 MW generation resources and 2000+ Transmission projects ($20B+) in-serviced into the power grids globally. Jay holds a Ph.D. degree (2004) in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada, an MBA degree (2009) from Penn State University, USA, Master (1997) and Bachelor (1992) degrees on Power Systems from Southeast University, China.
Publication Year: 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7281-7879-0