Deploying Microgrids with Storage

Synopsis

This panel will contribute learnings on how can storage be deployed and maintained within microgrids and the considerations needed to ensure a return on investment.

• Best approaches to conducting feasibility studies and system design of microgrids with energy storage.
• Making sure that people are skilled enough to operate and maintain microgrids with energy storage to ensure that they function efficiently.
• Prolonging the lifetime of the microgrid by managing technological challenges, such as the discharge of the battery and errors on the inverter.
• Overcoming land use and permitting issues to deploy energy storage technologies.
• Clarifying if and what type of storage makes sense for an island microgrid given the load sizes it is taking on.