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Battery storage

Managing excess energy for when it’s needed most

Effective battery storage is a critical part of successful energy transition, especially as the contribution of alternative energy sources becomes increasingly essential. There are two important areas of activity. The first is grid scale storage, where substantial batteries run alongside large solar power plants. And the second is behind-the-meter activities for both domestic and industrial users. As batteries continue to reduce in cost, energy storage is an increasingly attractive opportunity for both user groups.

Grid scale storage technologies are critical in helping the electrical power grid to balance supply and demand by storing excess electricity and releasing it when it’s needed. This excess usually comes from variable renewable sources, like solar power, and inflexible sources, like nuclear power.

Behind-the-meter technologies and infrastructure produce energy that often never passes through the electricity meter. These systems, from solar panels to battery storage units, allow users to produce and store their own energy, then manage their consumption by using it at the optimum time. Less energy is required from the grid, reducing energy bills, and excess energy can be sold back to the grid.

Vehicle-to-grid technologies allow excess energy from increasingly effective electric vehicle batteries to be discharged back into the home. In turn, this helps increase demand for battery powered vehicles.

What we do

Grid scale storage in the national infrastructure

ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ helps in the realization of significant grid scale battery projects, focused on large industrial installations. We can help identify opportunities, build business and investment cases, and design and optimize complex infrastructure.

First, we help with locating optimum sites. Then, we help energy companies develop robust business plans, with multi-threaded commercial environments that maximize return and reduce investment risk. Next, we help identify the optimum battery configuration to satisfy the operating environment and deliver a reliable service. It’s all about designing and configuring the right kit, with the right resilience, at the right cost.

Then, we focus on infrastructure supply chain and construction, advising on sourcing, availability, risk, and obsolescence. Our aim is to optimize the ‘dollar in the dirt’, maximizing the value of investment in infrastructure, while reducing the cost of construction. Our expertise in digitalization and AI enables us to use technology to automate, streamline, and futureproof operations that become blueprints for scalable rollout.
Subsequently, we can help with operation, maintenance, and decommissioning. We use our engineering and digital skills to monitor infrastructure performance, monitor cells, and continuously tune asset performance. When the time comes to decommission, we can identify commercial opportunities or advise on sustainable and responsible disposal, harnessing ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½â€™s expertise in emissions reduction, sustainability, and circularity.

When it comes to behind-the-meter solutions, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ helps make opportunities easily accessible and consumable for your customers. We’ll help you navigate the constantly evolving opportunities for customer engagement and interaction enabled by digitalization and AI.

We can also help you identify which customers will be most open to behind-the-meter propositions. We’ll share ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½â€™s skills in areas like customer segmentation, customer engagement, and digitalization of customer interactions. We can help you roll-out at scale the digital tools that will provide your customers with their personalized solution recommendation, optimum battery configuration, and cost benefit analysis, all through your website. And we can help you integrate innovative tools that will ensure you consistently satisfy constantly evolving market demands, at scale.

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          Meet our experts

          James Forrest

          Group Industry Leader for Energy Transition and Utilities at ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½
          I lead in helping global clients with major business transformations involving smart grid, IoT, the reform of gas and electricity markets, major software and infrastructure changes, and the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to drive significant business performance improvement.

          Mike Lewis

          VP Global Leader Energy Transition
          He is the lead of ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½’s Energy Transition business globally. He is responsible for our client’s success in their move to low carbon energy – both the products and services our clients bring to market, and how their own company transition to low carbon, sustainable business practices.

          Pierre Bagnon

          Vice President, Global Head of Intelligent Industry Accelerator, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Invent
          Pierre is Head of ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Intelligent Industry. As an Industry 4.0 expert, he focuses on the digital and sustainable transformation of the industry, including intelligent operations, intelligent product and services, and digital continuity, notably for the automotive, industrial goods, consumer goods, and life sciences sectors. In addition, he leads the ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Gigafactory practice. Prior to ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½, Pierre served as an executive at Bosch.