Why should data centers use Bess technology?

The rise of BESS technology presents a compelling opportunity for data centers to address energy challenges, reduce energy costs, deploy faster when constrained by genset permitting, and to help achieve sustainability goals.

Should data centers embrace Bess technology?

Several key trends are pushing data centers to embrace BESS technology: With vast deployments of solar and wind energy growing greener energy globally, their intermittent supply and low inertia, however, creates grid stability challenges for grid operators.

What are the potential KPIs of a Bess system?

In the case of BESS system potential KPIs include Availability, Efficiency, and Capacity. It is not possible to ascertain a value for Availability based on meter data alone because there are often hours with zero battery throughput even if the battery is operational.

How does a Bess system work?

BESS systems usually involve short, high ampacity underground runs from the battery rack containers to the inverters or DC/DC converters. In order to avoid excessive cable derates and resulting in larger cables and costs for short underground runs, you will need to consider:

Can a Bess model be compared to a PV+Bess model?

However, with BESS any error in the charge and discharge of the battery tends to accumulate so in terms of hour-by-hour time series data, the model of a BESS or PV+BESS system status quickly deviates from the measurements, and an hour-by-hour comparison of model to measured values is not meaningful.