WORKSHOPS

Workshop A:
North American Energy Markets: What storage developers and technology companies need to know?

This 4-hour workshop will provide an in-depth tutorial, geared to the needs of new entrants and prospective vendors of grid storage, on what they need to know about the different types of entities (regulated vs. unregulated, investor-owned utilities vs. municipals, coops, merchant power providers, ISOs/RTOs, public utility commissions), the national, state and regional policy drivers that can affect opportunities for energy storage. Workshop will provide overview of different tariffs and market structures and how they vary from region to region, and how different types of utilities and other customers assess and implement storage projects.  We will provide overview of how multiple value streams of the energy storage can be co-optimized through the available markets including Capacity, energy and ancillary services both for utility scale storage projects as well as behind the meter (customer side) installations through demand response programs.  Aside from the overview of the US Energy market for energy storage developers, updates will also be provided on recent changes in new tariffs & storage niches at ISOs, and recent FERC & PUC rulings. These will include FERC Order 890 and 719, as well as market design changes such as small generation interconnection rules, demand response program, New York ISO’s Limited Energy Storage Resource (LESR) and Midwest ISO’s Stored Energy Resource (SER) category to remove barriers for short duration energy storage participation in ancillary service markets. We will also cover some of the recent FERC initiatives and responses of various ISO/RTOs to performance-based payments for frequency regulation. The Workshop will also provide strategic insights into the Ontario power market, the largest and most progressive market for storage and smart grid in Canada.  Insights will be provided also from the operational experience of the Customized team in integrating and operating various energy storage and demand response resources in PJM, NYISO, MISO and CAISO markets. Issues related to data acquisition and communication requirements for integrating energy storage facilities will also be covered.

Instructors:

• Jacqueline DeRosa, Director of Regulatory Affairs, California, CUSTOMIZED ENERGY SOLUTIONS
• Erik Paulson, Vice President, Wholesale Markets, CUSTOMIZED ENERGY SOLUTIONS
• Rahul Walawalkar, Ph.D., CEM, CDSM, Vice President, Emerging Technologies & Markets, CUSTOMIZED ENERGY SOLUTIONS

Workshop B:
Electricity Storage 101

This 2- hour introductory workshop will explain what electricity storage is including its history, its applications to the grid and off the grid, and the benefits it can bring to generation, transmission, distribution, microgrids, and off-grid applications.  We will describe the categories of electrical storage as well as the associated technologies. We will also provide a simple description of how the electric power grid works. The workshop will discuss the policy, cost, and technical challenges facing the wider use of electricity storage and what can be done to address those challenges.

Instructors:

• Georgianne Huff, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
• Haresh Kamath, Senior Project Manager, Power Delivery and Utilization, EPRI

Workshop C:
Valuing Electricity Storage in Utility Applications

This 2- hour workshop will investigate the various considerations and approaches for monetizing the value of electricity storage in various utility applications. The data and calculations necessary to monetize costs and benefits of energy storage vary depending on several parameters including:

• Perspective (traditional business case vs. intangible benefits; business case vs. societal);
• Intended use (power vs. energy applications; frequent vs. occasional applications; primary vs. secondary applications; alternative technology comparisons vs. NPV or ROI analysis); and
• Regulatory environment (deregulated vs. regulated markets, rate basing, market rules).

Direct economic benefits such as market revenue are fairly well understood. However, various approaches for monetizing indirect economic (e.g., improved asset utilization or reduced equipment failures), reliability (e.g., improved power quality, fewer outages), and environmental (e.g., reduced emissions) benefits will be discussed.  This workshop will also provide an overview of tools that have been developed to conceptually and quantitatively monetize the value of electricity storage.

Instructors:

• Colette Lamontagne, Associate Director, Navigant Consulting, Inc.
• Dr. Ali Nourai, Executive Consultant, KEMA