Background

A Tier 1 Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Supplier was accelerating the North American clean energy transition by providing an industry-leading BESS to couple with electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Their product aims to provide reliable, affordable electricity to customers by shifting grid energy consumption from peak periods to off-peak periods, reducing demand on the grid, and reducing customer energy bills.

PassKey’s customer-centric mission requires extensive research and analysis to ensure their BESS can not only provide energy and economic benefits to customers but also mesh with existing grid infrastructure to improve system resiliency.

Services

Turning to Energeia and our partners Black & Veatch (BV), our client required utility needs and distribution-connected BESS forecasting for a country-wide array of cities. Energeia’s research and data engineering expertise proved essential in building a comprehensive custom database of utility grid infrastructure spatial data for each target market. Using feeder-level GIS data and city land use data, Energeia spatially allocated electrical load to assets to forecast demand from 2022 to 2040.

Results

Using Energeia’s battery optimization models and forecasting tools, our client identified nine key U.S. markets for entry. Energeia’s models and tools produced both feeder-level 8760 load profiles and individual customer battery system ROIs for cities from San Francisco to New York in a first-of-its-kind study of this granularity.

Outcome

This Tier 1 BESS Supplier is now partnering with EV charging technology and SmartPower software to enter the EV charging market at airports across the U.S. and continues to leverage Energeia’s forecasting modeling tools to identify markets that will benefit from distribution-connected BESS. These innovative data systems and applications will accelerate the clean energy transition, help reduce emissions, improve grid resiliency, and provide customers with reliable, affordable energy.