A sharp decline in prices of solar PV and wind technologies has inspired exponential deployment of these technologies in the energy market by the order of GWs is being hailed as a landmark towards a carbon neutral future.
With battery production reaching economies of scale, and Lithium-ion chemistry becoming a favorite across the industry for its benefit-cost ratio, BESS has become more viable than ever. Also, in comparison to the conventional counterparts such as, pumped-storage hydropower (PSH) or compressed air energy storage (CAES) which have a geographical constraint and need a certain character of terrain to become operational, BESS is the most efficient, relatively inexpensive and a thorough solution to meeting peak demands or provide ancillary services.
The inclusion of renewables in the energy mix has caused a change in the demand- generation profile, known as the infamous duck curve. BESS has greatly aided in subduing the variability and uncertain nature of renewable power. Although, the intermittent sources of energy offer a great alternative to the fossil-based power generating facilities, they have their hidden drawbacks which limits their capabilities to offer around the year dispatchability, but when coupled with a BESS their true potential is unleashed offering unrivaled benefits.
Performance, stability, reliability, and resilience are the key aspects of any power generation facility. Having realized the enormous and untapped potential of solar and wind energy which has already incentivized us for a carbon-free power generation, integrating it with energy storage technologies has further secured a safer and reliable power transmission and distribution.
Owing to its simplicity in design and modular form it is easy to integrate BESS with power production facilities, as it is it is designed to be easily configurable and highly scalable. There are various configurations of coupling BESS with a Solar PV generation facility. Choosing an optimum BESS solution entails assessing various aspects of the power generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure.
SgurrEnergy takes pride in being one of the most prominent and established names in the industry for having demonstrated our finesse in providing solar engineering consulting services across the globe for utility scale power plants.
SgurrEnergy, can assist you to discover the opportunities to optimize your CAPEX and OPEX while increasing the returns on the project with the introduction of a BESS to your power generation facility or electricity distribution utility. Whilst, Identifying the most pressing problems of your project and addressing the underlying cause in perspective of adding the battery storage to improve plant stability, grid stability or ensuring dispatch of firm capacity.
SgurrEnergy is adept at conducting feasibility studies to assess the viability of adding storage to the generation facility, performing technical due diligence to examine every aspect of the project to ensure that a minimum of all PPA guarantees are met, while also highlighting risks along with mitigation measures and advice to implement the, most relevant and recommended industry practices. SgurrEnergy’s multi-disciplinary engineering and project management teams can support deploying of BESS projects across the world.