2027 Event Agenda

As utilities face accelerating load growth, increasing renewable penetration, aging infrastructure, and growing reliability and resiliency requirements, battery energy storage systems (BESS) have become a critical planning tool for modern electric grids. However, one of the industry's biggest challenges remains determining where storage should be deployed, how it should be sized, and how to maximize its value over the life of the asset.

This course provides a practical utility-focused framework for evaluating, designing, and deploying battery energy storage systems for transmission and distribution applications. Drawing on real-world experience from Duke Energy and Storlytics, attendees will learn how utilities identify storage opportunities, evaluate storage as a Non-Wires Alternative (NWA), quantify reliability and resiliency benefits, develop use-case-specific dispatch strategies, select appropriate technologies, and optimize system sizing.

The course follows the complete utility decision-making process, from identifying a grid need through technology selection, lifecycle performance evaluation, and long-term asset management. Through utility case studies and hands-on exercises, participants will evaluate actual storage deployment scenarios, compare alternative solutions, and learn practical methodologies that can be applied immediately within their organizations.

Special emphasis will be placed on distribution-connected storage, renewable integration, large-load interconnections, reliability improvement, infrastructure upgrade deferral, and long-term lifecycle performance optimization.

Attendees will leave with a structured framework for evaluating battery storage projects from both utility planning and operational perspectives.