Preparing for Energy Storage: Trends & Practical Applications (virtual)

Course Overview

Energy storage, dominated by lithium-ion batteries, is taking on a bigger role in utilities, markets, and behind the meter. Take an in-depth look at the gamut of energy storage technologies and how the costs, practical applications, and limitations of each should factor into your long-term decisions and investments. Examine trends related to this increasingly competitive market, prospects for future growth, and regulations that could support or hinder public power in effectively deploying storage. Finally, the program will review best practices and platforms for implementing battery storage in utility portfolio planning, in supporting intermittent renewable resources, and in providing other grid services.  Click here to view the course agenda.

Course Topics

• Overview of the energy storage market: trends and challenges
• Storage processes, technologies, and applications across the energy industry
• Battery storage technologies: cost and performance
• Lithium ion supply chain dynamics
• Market dynamics and competitive positioning
• Benefits of energy storage and the concept of value stacking multiple revenue streams
• Valuing storage as a resource in utility portfolio planning
• Regulatory frameworks and use cases
• Battery storage and the evolving grid
• End-of-life disposition
• Future outlook for storage

Registration Info

Provider: American Public Power Authority (APPA)

Date: Tuesday, August 11 - Thursday, August 13, 2020

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time

Length: 3 days

Minimum to Open: 22 attendees

Maximum Capacity: 50 attendees

Estimated Enrollment Fee

SCPPA MEMBER RATE

$100~$215

(the actual cost will be based on the final number of attendees.)