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Navigating the BESS Landscape for Grid Resilience and a Sustainable Energy Future

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM ET

Location: C202 - C204, Level 2, Building C

BESS is being utilized by utilities for peak load shifting, grid reliability, and reducing voltage fluctuations in various southeastern states. Learn about which utilities/states are actively seeking standalone storage systems and at what scale, what states are doing to bring more BESS to the southeast, and where utilities would view batteries as being most valuable. Listeners will learn how developers can work with utilities to install BESS in areas that create the most value for the utility and the developer, how aggregated distributed generation storage is being rolled out, and whether the PPA approach through an RFP is still the best method for utilities to utilize storage assets.

Moderator(s)

Steve Kalland (he/him/his)

Executive Director
NC Clean Technology Center
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Panelist(s)

Salam Baniahmed (he/him/his)

Director, Energy Storage
Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Tonya Hicks (she/her/hers)

President and Chief Executive Officer
Power Solutions, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Gil Hough (he/him/his)

Executive Director
TenneSEIA (Tennessee Solar Energy Industries Association)
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Ted Ko (he/him/his)

Executive Director and Chief Architect
Energy Policy Design Institute (EPDI)
Denver, Colorado, United States