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Lesson Downloads
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Intro to Batteries 4 min
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Battery Co-Optimization 4 min
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Batteries and Ancillary Services 4 min
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Dampening 4 min
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Battery Charging From Solar and Energy Limiting Contracts 6 min
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Load Signaling 3 min
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Slides
- Certificate
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Batteries Certificate
Batteries
Welcome to this course on Batteries in PLEXOS. You will be asked to pause the videos several times to complete the exercises. Make sure and download the exercise files in the first lesson.
Learning Objectives
1. Explain how batteries are represented in PLEXOS as arbitrage resources, including their role as price takers that shift energy across time based on market prices and losses.
2. Configure and evaluate basic battery operational settings in PLEXOS, including capacity, power limits, state of charge constraints, efficiencies, and initial conditions, and assess how these settings influence charging and discharging behavior.
3. Analyze battery participation in energy and ancillary service markets, including co-optimization with regulation and spinning reserves, and explain the importance of state-of-charge feasibility and reserve duration constraints.
4. Apply dampening strategies to produce realistic battery dispatch outcomes, using mark-ups, bid/offer curves, and scheduling constraints, and compare their impacts on transaction frequency and profitability.
5. Assess advanced battery modeling considerations, including charging from renewables, energy-limiting contracts, chronological resolution, and load signaling, to understand their effects on system outcomes and long-term planning results.