Ascend Analytics
Battery Storage
Workshop

With the growth of U.S. renewable generation causing dramatic price volatility in both day-ahead and real-time energy markets and battery storage costs decreasing rapidly, the opportunity for developers and asset owners has never been greater.

• New market dynamics and the role of renewables and batteries
• Forecasting future market conditions
• How energy and ancillary prices are evolving in response to higher levels of renewable penetration
• Understanding the relationship between renewables and energy volatility
• Economics of battery storage
• Location matters: siting a project for optimal arbitrage value
• Optimal storage and renewable configurations
• How to make money with storage
• Leveraging volatility and storage

Day 2
Realizing the Full Economic Value of Battery Storage from Valuation to Live Operations

This workshop is designed to provide expert insight on the rapid expansion of renewables and battery storage, offering practical strategies for valuation, operations and optimal sizing and siting of potential stand-alone battery storage and storage paired with renewables.

• Valuation of battery storage
• The dangers of using legacy trading strategies in the new market environment
• Smart bidding strategies for battery storage operations used by leading firms
• Asset backed virtual or convergence trades
• Review of detailed valuation outputs and dispatch reports
• Keys to improving asset performance and risk-adjusted returns
• Battery as a physical hedge for renewable portfolios
• Case studies of valuation and operations of storage and renewables + storage projects
• Co-optimization of energy and ancillaries