pv magazine Webinar | Designing BESS for the future: Sizing, augmentation, and layout

For complex utility-scale BESS projects, decisions made in the early design phase can really affect long-term performance and scalability. Join us for this pv magazine Webinar where we’ll consider factors such as project requirements, battery sizing, installation strategies, and site layout to identify risks and preserve useful options before committing to a design.

A BESS project’s first layout sets the stage for decisions that will matter years later. How much capacity should you install today? When does adding more later make sense? And will the site be ready when the time to scale comes?

In this pv magazine Webinar, we’ll follow one project through different design scenarios, exploring how operating requirements, changing battery performance, and augmentation strategies shape sizing and layout.

From upfront installation to staged expansion, we’ll examine the trade-offs and show how early design choices can leave room for the project’s future and provide much-needed certainty.

Talking us through all these points will be our speaker Dhruv Shah, Technical Sales Engineer, Business Development, at PVFARM.

Shah will also give a demonstration of PVFARM’s recently launched software platform for battery project design. He will show us how RE STACK generates and compares possible layouts that can guide utility-scale BESS project decisions down the line.

Overall, if you’re interested in making your early-stage design process more accurate and efficient, you’ll find some practical pointers from this session.

Key takeaways:
• Understand how to turn a project’s operating and delivery requirements into a clearer early design brief.
• Recognize how lifetime performance and augmentation plans affect initial sizing and layout.
• Compare the practical trade-offs between installing capacity upfront and adding it later.
• Identify the space, access, electrical, and civil provisions needed to support future work.

pv magazine Webinar content:
• Shaping early-stage BESS sizing and design
• How operating requirements, lifecycle strategies, and site constraints impact project decisions
• RE STACK platform demonstration
• Comparing design options and planning for future challenges
• Q&A

Questions for this webinar can be submitted when registering or in the chat during the live webinar.
This webinar will be moderated by pv magazine Features Editor, Blathnaid O’Dea.
Registration for this webinar is free of charge.