Description

This study reviews and documents:

• Available battery technology proven for stationary substation applications;
  

• Good practices for battery maintenance and their alignment with NERC requirements;
  

• Functionality of available battery monitoring systems used by electrical utilities, economic justification for their use, and the experiences of utilities sin using such systems;
  

• End of life/replacement criteria for batteries used by utilities; and
  

• Good practice for station battery system design, construction and procurement.
  

Value to Electric Cooperatives

Station battery systems are one of the most critical substation and generation station assets.  Co-ops can leverage the extensive literature search and survey of utilities documented in this report to learn best practices for using these systems.

Audience

Engineering & Operations Staff

Documents

Report Brief
Report Presentation
Full Report

For more information about this project, please contact Business and Technology Strategies.