BESS Merchant Energy Arbitrage sounds simple on paper: charge when prices are low, discharge when prices are high, and pocket the spread. But if you’ve ever tried to translate that story into a...
A BESS Tolling Agreement sounds almost too easy to model: take contracted capacity, multiply by a fixed $/kW-month price, apply escalation, and you’re done. In practice, that shortcut is...
A battery is sold as an AC product at the point of interconnection (POI): a defined power rating (MW) sustained for a defined duration (hours). The challenge is that the asset behind that product...
AC vs DC in Battery Energy Storage is the single biggest source of confusion in BESS modeling. Batteries store energy on the DC side, but markets, meters, and cash flows live on the AC side—so...
