Previous Agenda

As many Tier 1 suppliers look to moving their facilities closer to home, how do they plan to ramp up their production and manufacturing capacity in the US, without disrupting the supply chain any further?

• What is the plan to de-risk the move to a more domesticated manufacturing sector?
• Which actual components will be manufactured in the US, and which partnerships should be strengthened in the EU to make sure our supply chains are resilient and globally connected?
• What is the Federal administration doing to boost and incentivize domestic manufacturing capacity?
• Which technologies will fit into an industry which is aiming to manufacture closer to home?
• How does the industry plan to bridge US demand until US supply is ready? How might those ‘bridge years’ be impacted by tariffs, and what lessons can be learnt from the solar industry?
• What does financial support from the government look like, and what are the other resources for capital in this area?

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) promise to smooth out the intermittency of renewable energy production and deliver a consistent, predictable flow of energy to state and national grids. However, asset owners and traders are now faced with new challenges to solve. It is necessary for them to operate in the wholesale and ancillary markets of the various ISOs using BESS provided by multiple OEMs. Therefore, a data platform and several BESS agnostic building blocks such as EMS, SCADA, Storage Fleet Monitoring & Storage Advanced Analytics help to increase efficiency throughout the design life of the BESS supporting both operations and trading teams. A modular architecture and interplay between edge and cloud that adapts to both standalone and co-located storage projects solve the challenges and provide long term, flexibility, scalability, and ultimately profitability.

Storage played a significant role in the recent California heatwaves and outages and is playing a more significant role in ERCOT. This session will examine how energy storage assets have changed (and will continue to change) the grid planning and operations across the US.

• The role of storage in getting around some of the transmission and interconnection issues in areas prone to concerns around power supply reliability caused by extreme weather events
• How Virtual Power Plants and microgrids can help with congestion reduction
• Renewable energy curtailment management which in turn can help meet state policy goals
• The flexible capacity value storage can provide to the grid
• Transmission deferral
• Storage resources providing ancillary services

• Despite increasing adoption of co-located systems, there are considerable industry knowledge gaps about the fundamental differences between the three main solar+storage configurations and which is best-suited to deliver high performing, low cost utility scale PV+storage systems.
• A comparison on the advantages of a Fixed Voltage DC-coupled architecture over competing Variable DC-coupled and AC-coupled designs.
• Discussion around the rapid growth of Fixed DC-coupled solar+storage deployments around the world and how Ampt String Optimizers are enabling various use cases, including “storage as a transmission” assets, peak management, and grid resilience.