Introduction To Software For Battery Systems
 

Build a solid understanding of how software controls battery operations, enables market participation, and maximizes eco
What you'll learn
Identify the differences between front-of-meter and behind-the-meter battery systems and determine appropriate software architecture strategies for each
Evaluate opportunities for cost savings from behind-the-meter systems using techniques such as energy arbitrage and peak shaving
Evaluate opportunities for revenue from energy markets using techniques such as energy arbitrage and ancillary services
Understand microservices-based software architecture strategies for energy market bidding and behind-the-meter battery management systems
Requirements
No prerequisites. If you aren't interested in software engineering details, you can skip two lessons.
Description
This comprehensive introduction course provides clean energy professionals with essential knowledge for developing and implementing software solutions for utility-scale battery systems. Students will learn the critical differences between front-of-meter and behind-the-meter systems, understand energy market operations and bidding strategies, and explore proven software architectures for battery management systems. By course completion, students will have a solid understanding of how software controls battery operations, enables market participation, and maximizes economic value in utility-scale deployments.
Ideal for managers, project managers, and software engineers, this overview will provide context to the field of software for utility-scale battery systems. Architecture lessons can be skipped if you don't want to get into the software engineering "weeds".
This course does not cover BESS software that interacts directly with hardware, but rather the higher level software the determines when batteries should charge, discharge, and send bids into the energy markets.
The course includes a demonstration of using AI to create a battery simulator that you can use with your battery system software.
The course covers
- The need for software for battery systems
- In front of the meter and behind the meter systems
- Energy markets
- Architecture for energy market bidding
- Behind the meter systems
- Architecture for behind the meter systems
- Using Simulators
- Using AI
Who this course is for
Managers, project managers, and software engineers who want to understand how software controls battery systems.