- Make intermittent renewable energy sources into firm supply and enable an increasing portion of renewable energy to be utilized by society.
- Manage an increasingly large portfolio of wind assets
- Enhance renewable energy delivery (e.g. peak/time shifting, baseload bottoming avoidance, smoothing, ramp rate control)
- Wind curtailment avoidance
- Maximize value and profit of existing utility assets
- Shifting and arbitraging under-utilized off-peak base-load generation to flexible peak utilization
- Reduce power plant cycling and availability requirements (O&M and capital savings, spinning reserve)
- Simultaneously perform increasingly valuable ancillary services to grid (regulation, reserve, capacity)
- Hedge natural gas prices and carbon costs
- Make the grid more efficient, sustainable and “smart” with the adoption of storage assets and tools that also generate recurring returns for their owners and operators
- Manage grid peaks and outage mitigation
- Create emergency backup capability and greater local islanding
- Improve power quality
- Minimize dispatch and integration costs
- Enable utilities to add value and develop new storage-related assets in a low cost and profitable way, in scale, with sensitivity to the environmental and safety impacts, in the near term, in a wide geographic area
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