Enstorm (Energy Storage Manager)

Enstorm ("Energy Storage Manager") is PCE's cutting-edge intelligent solution that leverages AI technologies to seamlessly integrate energy storage resources (battery, pump storage, etc) into the automatic generation control process. Enstorm connects planning tools (whether unit commitment or market day-ahead results) and the dynamic nature of real-time operation. Enstorm enables power systems to fully benefit from energy storage to reduce energy costs, reduce emissions, and improve reliability.

Why does every energy storage resource owner need Enstorm?

Because Enstorm bridges the crucial gap between plans and real-time operation of energy storage resources, enabling a massive increase in energy arbitrage and reliability gains from these improvements.

Features of Enstorm:

• Real-time Adaptation. Planning tools, constrained by their inability to adapt to real-time deviations, produce a charge/discharge plan that does not provide any of the information the automatic generation control (AGC) processes need to optimally use energy storage. Enstorm, however, focuses specifically on this, intelligently adjusting its projections every few seconds in response to real-time conditions, while continually looking multiple days ahead.
• Economic Dispatch. Enstorm enables optimized dispatch of batteries with all other controllable resources.
• All types of resources. Enstorm is effective for all controllable storage types, from batteries to pump storage, both in RTO markets and in Balancing Authorities.

Enstorm for Market Participants

For markets like MISO, where energy storage owners are required to submit energy price offers, Enstorm is a game-changer. It takes all the information available from the market and determines the optimum offer for an energy storage resource at every moment. Not just that, Enstorm automates the offer submission process (under operator oversight) to ensure that offers are consistently aligned with evolving market conditions. It will learn as it goes, in order to make better projections. It also forecasts the remaining energy in storage resources for each hour and the following day, a necessary element for accurate day-ahead storage offers.

Enstorm for Balancing Authorities

Adhering strictly to a unit commitment (UC) plan without adjusting for changing real-time conditions is guaranteed to lead to inefficiencies. Many battery cycles performed by AGC, blindly following such plans without considering changing conditions, result in charging at high system marginal cost and discharging at a lower one.

Enstorm is the solution to this challenge.

• It provides essential information for adapting to real-time changes,
• Economically optimizes the utilization of energy storage resources in coordination with other units, such as fossil and renewables.
• Enables efficient provision of regulation and other services from storage resources, as needed, based on real-time conditions.

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