Battery Energy Storage Systems: Implementing Projects
This course developed in partnership with IEEE Power and Energy Society covers Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), from key components and system integration to installation and maintenance. Learners will explore battery modules, management systems, and grid integration, along with real-world applications like Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRES) and Virtual Power Plants (VPPs). The course also details the full BESS lifecycle, including design, operation, and decommissioning.
What you will learn:
- Describe the major components of a battery energy storage system (BESS)
- Explain the project phases in building a BESS plant
- Understand the different scales of BESS plants from residential and commercial to utility scale
- List the best practices for integrating energy storage to the electric grid
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
Waylon Clark
Waylon Clark is the Demonstration Projects Team Lead for Sandia National Laboratories' Energy Storage Program. He is passionate about the role energy storage can play in strengthening grid resilience and reliability. Waylon has over a decade of experience in electrical engineering, project management, and technical leadership. He has worked on both brownfield and greenfield projects, from creating requests for proposals (RFP), to commissioning and operations, to decommissioning and disposal.
Dr. Babu Chalamala
Dr. Babu Chalamala (IEEE Fellow) is a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. In this role, he provides strategic vision for research areas in grid modernization, energy storage technologies, power electronics, and grid components and manufacturing. Earlier, he was head of the Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department and Program Manager for Grid Energy Storage at the laboratory. Prior to joining Sandia in 2015, he was a Corporate Fellow at MEMC Electronic Materials for five years, where he led R&D and product development in grid scale energy storage. Before that, he had founding roles in two startup ventures commercializing large format lithium batteries and digital x-ray sources. Earlier, as a research staff member at Motorola and Texas Instruments, he made significant contributions to vacuum microelectronics and flat panel display technologies.
Publication Year: 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7281-7880-6