If you break it down, battery storage systems consist of three main components: the battery, including monitoring (BMS), a conversion unit, typically an inverter, and a controller - the energy management system (EMS). The EMS is the brain of the system and its tasks used to be relatively simple. It retrieved values from the power meter and used them to calculate a target value for the use case, which it then transmitted to the inverter. It also monitored the inverter's and the battery's functionality. Today, we also use the EMS of a battery storage system to simultaneously control or optimize other devices in a local energy system, such as EV chargers, heat pumps and other controllable consumers or generators. Modern energy management systems optimize assets for not just one use case (e.g., solar self-consumption) but multiple use cases (e.g., atypical grid usage, solar self-consumption and dynamic electricity tariffs). Learn more about the latest trends in this session, including the use of artificial intelligence in energy management systems, for example in battery storage systems.
04:30 pm - 06:00 pmEnergy Management Systems: Not Just For Battery Storage?