eBook - Energy Storage and Load Management for Cooperative and Public Power Utilities

Charges for peak demand on the distribution system are an increasingly vexing line item for cooperative and public power utilities. The charges are rising, understandably, due to higher transmission and capacity costs. Yet customers still rely on you to keep their energy affordable. This eBook explains the factors behind peak demand charge hikes and how you can manage them effectively:

• How load management with performance-guaranteed energy storage mitigates capacity and transmission cost volatility and reduces your risk
• How solar PV and wholesale market integrations can make an energy storage project even more productive
• Financing options that make energy storage viable now
• The surprisingly little effort required on your part to deploy and operate an energy storage system
• How one municipally-owned utility in Massachusetts obtained all these benefits with no upfront costs