Battery energy storage technology is causing a revolution in how consumers use electric power. These systems (hereafter, battery energy storage systems or BESS) are making large impacts in transportation, consumer electricity-usage patterns and renewable energy sources. Whether BESS are imbedded in vehicles (battery-electric vehicles, a.k.a. BEVs or fuel-cell electric vehicles), major facilities, or residences (like your author’s), they are completely changing the electric-utility landscape.
I’m sure everyone reading this paper has heard the phrase “fight fire with fire,” well I have a new one for you, “accommodate consumers’ BESS through your utility’s own (larger and longer-duration) BESS.” This will be the subject of this paper.
