1. Energy Storage
a USA Perspective
Mick Barlow, Business Development Director
S&C Electric Europe Ltd
KBIA– October 2013
www.sandc.com

2. Who is S&C Electric?
• Established in 1911
• Employee owned company with
2500 full-time employees
• Headquartered in Chicago
• 6 global business units
• Specialists in electric power
switching , protection and power
quality equipment, including
storage.
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3. Energy Storage Capabilities
• peak shaving / load management
• load following / balancing
• renewable generation smoothing /
dispatch
• islanding
• frequency regulation / grid
stabilization
• voltage / power factor regulation
• facility power protection (UPS)
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4. S&C Electric Energy Storage Applications
1-MW System – Minnesota
1-MW System – Canada
1-MW System – Canada
1-MW System – Scotland
4-MW System – California
2-MW System – Ohio
6-MW System – England
2-MW System – Alameda
2-MW System – Indiana
1-MW System – West Virginia
1-MW System – Missouri
2-MW System – California
1-MW System – New Mexico
1-MW System – Australia
4-MW System – Texas
2-MW System – West Virginia
1-MW System – Catalina
2 x 1-MW System – North Carolina
1-MW System – New Mexico
Islanding
Ren integration
MicroGrid
T&D Deferral
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5. How do we make storage happen?
• Problems
– Technology is new and still expensive.
– Often the regulators consider storage as just another form of
generation – IT IS NOT!!
– Often support mechanisms are not in place in the way they
are for solar and wind.
We Needmulti-facited and can contributeApproach
– Storage is To Take a Holistic to many markets.
– It spans across market segments – generation, transmission
and distribution.
– In the Carbon Trust report in 2012 it stated that in the UK
 15GW of storage by 2030 it would save £2bn/annum
 25GW of storage by 2050 it would save £10bn/annum
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6. Recent Energy Storage Developments in the US
• Argonne National Labs in Chicago, IL recently received a
$120M funding commitment to research and advance
Energy Storage
• Called Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
(JCESR)
• George Crabtree, the director of JCESR stated his 5-5-5
vision at a recent energy storage conference in New York
– 5x the energy density of current lithium ion technology
– At 1/5 the cost
– Within 5 years
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7. Recent Energy Storage Developments in the US
• FERC order 755
– Frequency Regulation, market pays more for the best:
 Speed – storage responds in seconds
 Accuracy – typically 98+% accurate
– One large (32MW) energy storage installation in the
PJM area displaces 70-80MW of traditional spinning
reserve.
 Usable band
 Doesn’t require base loading, can stand-by idle
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8. Recent Energy Storage Developments in the US
• Lack a cohesive National policy
– Rules change:
 By state
 By Independent system operator
– NE-ISO recently asked to delay opening their market to
Energy storage (FERC 755) until January 1, 2015
– NY-ISO use of each resource’s six-second Regulation
Movement Response Rate
 By Public Utilities commission
“It’s no coincidence that our facility is located in New York, a competitive market.
By providing clear market tariffs for different technology solutions, competitive
electricity markets level the playing field and drive innovation.”
-- Beacon Power Director of Corporate Communications, Gene Hunt
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9. Recent Energy Storage Developments in the US
• California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
ordered Southern California Edison (SCE) to install
50MW of Energy Storage in the Los Angeles Basin
• The CPUC ordered an additional total of 1300MW of
capacity be procured from preferred resources –
including energy storage.
• This action has already spurned a call for energy
storage proposals in multiple locations in California
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10. California PUC recently released order
A Total of 1.325GW
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11. Conclusions
• Storage can make a big contribution to the development of our
changing network.
• However, it is important that the right Market Mechanisms are in
place to support this.
• Storage costs will come down.
• But we do need to consider the impact on total system savings.
• The answer is not always to put more copper in the
ground!!!
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12. Thank you!
Mick.Barlow@sandc.com,
KBIA– October 2013
www.sandc.com