Download Free (.pdf)Energy Toolbase – BYD Energy Storage Integration Resource Guide
1. Overview – Energy Toolbase BYD Commercial ESS Integration
Energy Toolbase has integrated BYD’s (Build Your Dreams) energy storage solutions onto the Energy Toolbase (ETB) Platform. This integration enables ETB users to run energy storage dispatch simulations and savings analysis that are representative of how BYD Energy Storage Systems (ESS) products controlled by the Energy Toolbase Acumen EMS™ controller would operate in the field.
BYD’s integrated all-in-one energy storage solutions feature Lithium-ion Iron-Phosphate battery technology, paired with a bidirectional power conversion system (PCS), packaged into a modular system design for easy transportation, installation, and maintenance. The BYD products that Energy Toolbase is integrating its control software with, include BYD’s CHESS and BHIVE product lineup, which come in both 2 and 4-hour configurations.
Energy Toolbase has worked with BYD to validate the ESS hardware specifications which have been pre-loaded onto the ETB platform. This allows users to quickly evaluate their standalone-ESS projects or PV+ESS projects, on any of Energy Toolbase’s 60,000+ utility rate schedules. The BYD integration streamlines the project development workflow for commercial storage developers and gives them the confidence to know they are running validated savings and economic analysis.
2. Energy Toolbase’s Acumen EMS™
It’s important to note the two different tracks for export rates that NBT customers can be on: those with locked-in values or those with floating values. Customers who receive permission to operate (PTO) in a certain year will lock in the estimated export rates for the next nine years based on that current year’s version of the ACC. (The ability to lock in nine years of export rates only applies to customers that PTO within the first five years of the NBT program.) The year that a customer locks in their export rates is referred to as their “vintage year”. All other customers that either opt out of the locked-in values or PTO after the five-year cutoff will receive the floating export rates that change every year when the ACC is updated. The update to the ACC that goes into effect in January 2025 will provide a new set of nine-year export rates for customers to lock in for vintage years 2025 and 2026, and it will provide new floating export rates for customers that do not have locked–in rates.
3. Signing up for the BYD Commercial ESS Integration
Energy Toolbase has integrated BYD’s (Build Your Dreams) energy storage solutions onto the Energy Toolbase (ETB) Platform. This integration enables ETB users to run energy storage dispatch simulations and savings analysis that are representative of how BYD Energy Storage Systems (ESS) products controlled by the Energy Toolbase Acumen EMS™ controller would operate in the field.
BYD’s integrated all-in-one energy storage solutions feature Lithium-ion Iron-Phosphate battery technology, paired with a bidirectional power conversion system (PCS), packaged into a modular system design for easy transportation, installation, and maintenance. The BYD products that Energy Toolbase is integrating its control software with, include BYD’s CHESS and BHIVE product lineup, which come in both 2 and 4-hour configurations.
Energy Toolbase has worked with BYD to validate the ESS hardware specifications which have been pre-loaded onto the ETB platform. This allows users to quickly evaluate their standalone-ESS projects or PV+ESS projects, on any of Energy Toolbase’s 60,000+ utility rate schedules. The BYD integration streamlines the project development workflow for commercial storage developers and gives them the confidence to know they are running validated savings and economic analysis.
4. Using the BYD ESS Integration
It’s important to note the two different tracks for export rates that NBT customers can be on: those with locked-in values or those with floating values. Customers who receive permission to operate (PTO) in a certain year will lock in the estimated export rates for the next nine years based on that current year’s version of the ACC. (The ability to lock in nine years of export rates only applies to customers that PTO within the first five years of the NBT program.) The year that a customer locks in their export rates is referred to as their “vintage year”. All other customers that either opt out of the locked-in values or PTO after the five-year cutoff will receive the floating export rates that change every year when the ACC is updated. The update to the ACC that goes into effect in January 2025 will provide a new set of nine-year export rates for customers to lock in for vintage years 2025 and 2026, and it will provide new floating export rates for customers that do not have locked–in rates.
5. Transactions when using the BYD ESS integration
Energy Toolbase has integrated BYD’s (Build Your Dreams) energy storage solutions onto the Energy Toolbase (ETB) Platform. This integration enables ETB users to run energy storage dispatch simulations and savings analysis that are representative of how BYD Energy Storage Systems (ESS) products controlled by the Energy Toolbase Acumen EMS™ controller would operate in the field.
Energy Toolbase has integrated BYD’s (Build Your Dreams) energy storage solutions onto the Energy Toolbase (ETB) Platform. This integration enables ETB users to run energy storage dispatch simulations and savings analysis that are representative of how BYD Energy Storage Systems (ESS) products controlled by the Energy Toolbase Acumen EMS™ controller would operate in the field.
6. Final Checklist
It’s important to note the two different tracks for export rates that NBT customers can be on: those with locked-in values or those with floating values. Customers who receive permission to operate (PTO) in a certain year will lock in the estimated export rates for the next nine years based on that current year’s version of the ACC. (The ability to lock in nine years of export rates only applies to customers that PTO within the first five years of the NBT program.) The year that a customer locks in their export rates is referred to as their “vintage year”. All other customers that either opt out of the locked-in values or PTO after the five-year cutoff will receive the floating export rates that change every year when the ACC is updated. The update to the ACC that goes into effect in January 2025 will provide a new set of nine-year export rates for customers to lock in for vintage years 2025 and 2026, and it will provide new floating export rates for customers that do not have locked–in rates.
