Director of ESS Solutions Nuvation Energy Sunnyvale, California, United States
As batteries age, their storage capacity decreases over time. An augmentation plan ensures that a storage project will meet electricity needs throughout the life of the installation. Uncertainties involved with predicting battery degradation and future demand make it challenging to decide how much capacity to include up front and what to plan to add later. There are also technical challenges to adding new versions of energy storage to older technologies on an existing site. This presentation will explore different augmentation approaches, and the concept of designing an energy storage site up-front for augmentation.