We continue our look back at 2024 with a selection of our sponsored webinars broadcast throughout the year.
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In the meantime, here are our picks for your holiday viewing pleasure from among the total 21 webinars we put out this year, spanning topics including trading strategies, fire safety, battery storage procurement, and much more.
Don’t forget, you can watch all of our webinars from the past five years via the On-demand section of the website and our YouTube channel. Keep an eye out, too, for what’s upcoming.
Do higher risks mean higher returns for battery storage investors?
24 January 2024
As the energy storage market matures, a discernible trend suggests increasing investor comfort with associated risks. While tolling arrangements and floor prices act to provide a predictable income, the merchant model, where revenues are tied to market prices, introduces an element of risk, but also the potential for higher returns.
In this webinar with GridBeyond, we explored:
- Key considerations for securing financing and investment for BESS assets
- Trends in price floors and insurance products
- Commercial perspectives around operating and optimising battery storage assets
- The importance of market forecasting, revenue stacking, dispatch optimisation, and auction bidding strategies in ensuring that battery storage assets achieve their full value potential
Lessons in BESS manufacturing quality, learned from 30GWh+ of factory inspections
31 January 2024
In the past six years, CEA has performed factory quality audits on over 30GWh of BESS projects, employing a multi-faceted approach to target these issues. The team’s findings at each manufacturing stage highlight common quality issues that may cause commissioning delays, excessive degradation and even thermal events and fires.
In this webinar, CEA’s BESS experts share:
- The most common issues seen in the factory, their typical root causes, and
- What steps can be taken during the manufacturing process to prevent these issues.
How to generate profit from battery storage beyond ancillary services
4 April 2024
While the business case for battery energy storage system (BESS) technology often begins with ancillary services, as markets evolve, other applications will become more and more important in the BESS asset revenue stack.
In this webinar, experts discuss the evolution of the revenue stack for batteries in Europe. Our speakers are directly involved in building a business case and optimising income on the market, maximising revenues for energy storage assets.
Taking part are Clean Horizon, an energy storage consultancy that helps build an optimal business case for storage, applying its simulation tool COSMOS, and YUSO, which provides route-to-market and energy optimisation services to BESS assets, operating an energy platform to provide market access.
Insurance innovations that unlock the potential of battery storage systems
15 May 2024
The rapid growth of energy storage has created challenges for insurers seeking to identify appropriate risks posed by a new and complex asset class. For owners and operators, this can mean grappling with high premiums that do not always reflect the unique characteristics of their projects.
In this webinar with battery data analytics specialists ACCURE Battery Intelligence, we bring together experts from across the insurance and energy storage landscape to unravel and make sense of the complexities of insuring BESS and reveal how insurance policies can be optimised with a data-driven approach.
The energy storage supply landscape: a guide to BESS procurement
3 September 2024
Experts from Clean Energy Associates discuss how to approach the constantly evolving question of BESS procurement.
The dynamics which determine the pricing, competition and supply chain for batteries and battery energy storage system (BESS) technologies are complex and ever-changing, and the past 12 months has perhaps been the most frenzied yet. That makes it a great time to hear from CEA on how to approach the topic of procuring BESS today.
Battery storage trading strategies for ERCOT and CAISO market success
6 November 2024
As renewable energy and energy storage continue to transform power grids across the USA, it’s crucial for utility-scale battery storage asset owners to understand the changes in market dynamics and changes in trading strategies that will keep providing their target revenues.
In this webinar, we review key market trends in Texas’ ERCOT market and in California’s CAISO market. Experts from GridBeyond assess what changes are here to stay and which were driven by weather conditions.
While a mild summer was a major driver of low power prices in 2024, some market changes added to the downward pressure on prices in ERCOT. Understanding these nuances is crucial for BESS owners who want to forecast market conditions and adjust their strategies for the long term.
Evolving large-scale fire testing requirements for battery energy storage systems
14 November 2024
As the adoption of energy storage systems (ESS) expands across residential, commercial, industrial, and utility sectors, the need for heightened safety measures becomes critical.
Recent incidents involving lithium-ion and other electrochemical batteries highlight the potential fire risks associated with these systems. To help address these concerns, Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) are mandating large-scale fire testing, extending the scope beyond typical UL 9540A evaluations.
This webinar with Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) CSA Group aims to educate AHJs, battery ESS manufacturers, system integrators, insurers, and other key stakeholders involved in the industry by providing valuable insights into the evolving landscape of fire testing for ESS.
Balancing safety and profitability in European BESS asset management
26 November 2024
From 2023 in UK and 2024 in France, BESS owners started to encounter operational challenges as revenues generated by their assets decreased. With the high volatility of market prices and saturation of ancillary services opportunities leading to low clearing prices, it becomes crucial that BESS operation be carried out with a holistic approach to ensure the maximisation of asset value and not just the maximisation of revenues.
That’s where technical and commercial asset management services come in, like the ones proposed by Greensolver. Greensolver supports owners with a continuous holistic approach to maximising the value throughout the operational lifetime of your BESS assets or portfolio, bringing you strong added-value insights to improve your decision-making process.
