The British Academy for Training and Development offers a professional training course in Energy Storage to understand the trends in technologies, market developments, and business cases driving energy storage projects of various sizes in the power grid. Significant growth in energy storage is a key feature of low-carbon renewable energy systems. It provides the flexibility and resilience required by systems supporting large capacities such as wind and solar. Energy storage solutions, especially batteries, are already deployed in a variety of sizes and locations, from home systems to utility-scale systems. This course combines fundamental technology and energy systems principles with the latest market information and international examples to demonstrate how and why the energy storage market is evolving. Learn about the problems energy storage solutions solve, the market and political conditions driving the business case, and the risks and challenges faced by projects and deployments. This course is provided by a team of internationally experienced energy engineers.

Who should attend? 

• All experts in the field of energy storage systems.
• Non-engineers who want to understand new approaches to energy storage.
• Individuals Seeking Technical Training in Energy Storage Systems.
• Project Managers, Quality Managers, General Managers and Directors seeking comprehensive training in energy storage applications and operations.
• Energy storage manufacturers looking for alternatives to improve energy storage system design and efficiency.
• Executives and managers looking to invest in energy storage space.
• Investors and contractors planning to invest in the energy storage industry.
• Engineers, operators and maintenance personnel working or planning to work on energy storage projects.

How attendees will benefit? 

After completion of the course, delegates will understand: 

• How to describe the current outlook for the energy transition in the photovoltaic and storage sector.
• Understand battery basics and energy storage concepts.
• Understand the materials used in different types of energy storage and how they work.
• Recognize the parameters that control energy storage performance.
• Describe various uses of energy storage in electrical engineering.
• Describe different applications of energy storage in land, air, or maritime transportation systems.
• Understand the application of energy storage in photovoltaics.
• Solve the challenges associated with energy storage systems.
• Describe supercapacitors and their applications in the system.
• Distinguish between heat storage and hydrogen storage.
• Understand fuel cells and the different uses and types of fuel cells in systems.
• Understand the principles and best practices of solar power plants and their leading best practices.
• Analyse the capital cost of combining solar and storage power plants.
• Identify your company's grid-connected energy storage opportunities and risks.
• Understand the complexities of grid-connected energy storage projects, make decisions, and engage with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

• Battery technology (lithium-ion, flow, etc.).
• Cost components of energy storage projects.
•  Flexibility requirements in low-carbon energy systems.
• Energy Storage Market Segments and Revenue Sources.
• Power and energy capacity requirements for various applications.
• Lessons learned from energy storage projects around the world.
• Batteries of various scales, from home to public.
• Tiered storage cost.
• Requirements for long-term energy storage (and battery-free solutions).
• Types and main features of energy storage devices.
• Electrical energy storage parameters.
• Operating characteristics of storage.
• Integrating energy storage into electrical networks.
• Off-grid system, architecture, dimensions.
• Small storage battery system.
• Future development of energy storage.