By:
Andy Colthorpe
Software is rapidly becoming recognised as key to the value proposition and bankability of energy storage, which in turn lies at the heart of the energy transition. Andy Colthorpe speaks to three providers of software aimed at the energy storage industry. The full version of this article appeared in Volume 26 of the quarterly technical journal, PV Tech Power. Subscribe to the journal or buy individual issues here.
If energy storage is the great enabler of the clean energy transition, then software is the great enabler of energy storage. A lot of discussion rightly focuses on hardware: the types, sizes and quality of batteries, the right configurations of power conversion equipment and so on. Yet it is software that drives the systems to deliver their optimal value and allows both the machines themselves and the humans operating them to make the right decisions.