Energy storage power supply product testing specifications and requirements

What are ESS performance specifications & test requirements?

ESS performance specifications and test requirements vary considerably depending on the location of deployment, size, and application. Key parameters include voltage, active power, reactive power, and energy. Additionally, the test labs create application-specific tests related to performance, safety, and environmental aspects.

What are energy storage systems?

Energy storage systems (ESSs), and particularly battery energy storage systems, are finding their way into a very wide range of applications for utilities, commercial, industrial, military and residential power. Applications include renewable integration, frequency regulation, critical backup power, peak shaving, load leveling, and more.

What is energy storage system (ESS)?

Implementing an Energy Storage System (ESS) can reduce that impact. ESS plays an important role in the development of smart grids and micro-grids in balancing the power load, steadying the power supply, and stabilizing the power quality.

What is a battery energy storage system?

“BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM (BESS)” - Stationary equipment that receives electrical energy and then utilizes batteries to store that energy to supply electrical energy at some future time. The BESS, at a minimum consists of one or more modules, a power conditioning system (PCS), battery management system (BMS) and balance of plant components.

What is DTE Energy CES testing?

The testing is being performed for DTE Energy as part of the US Department of Energy’s Energy Storage Smart Grid Demonstration Program. The CES consists of a power conditioning system, and a battery energy storage unit. Testing may include basic operation, round-trip efficiency, peak shaving, and frequency regulation.

What is a target battery energy storage system unit?

TARGET BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM UNIT (TARGET BESS) – The enclosure and/or rack hardware that physically supports and/or contains the components that comprise a BESS. The target BESS unit does not contain energy storage components, but serves to enable instrumentation to measure the thermal exposure from the initiating BESS.