Distributed Energy Innovation (DEI) provides go-to-market and project development consulting services on clean energy projects, specializing in those that include battery storage. DEI assembles expert teams with hands-on experience. Our consultants have been developing commercial & industrial, residential, and utility-scale battery projects in CA since 2013.
Providing the insight necessary to help your company understand opportunities for renewable energy and battery storage, as well as the experience required to help develop projects.
Whether you’re an organization considering clean energy, a developer looking to leverage changing regulations, an investor analyzing clean energy projects, or a utility working to create solutions for your ratepayers, we can put together the right team of experts to help you.
Demand Charge Management: Delivering savings to commercial & industrials customers.
Microgrids: Developing solar / storage / diesel microgrids that make sense for customers.
Virtual Power Plants: Aggregating residential solar + storage to create small, virtual power plants.
Market Prioritization: Customized go-to-market analysis of opportunities in the US and internationally.
Revenue Stacking Strategy: Revenue strategies for large-scale battery storage systems.
Due Diligence: Vetting battery storage project pro forma and developing strategies to increase revenue streams.
Wind go-to-market strategy: Analysis of on-shore and off-shore wind opportunities.
Due Diligence: Vetting and analyzing solar projects for acquisition by investor.
Zoning, Permitting, Interconnection: Ranging from working with local communities on zoning to engineers on interconnection.
Solar + Storage
(Photos from Stem and Engie)
While many companies know solar, few understand the unique challenges of developing solar + storage projects, much less the implications of quickly changing regulations – federal, ISO/RTO and state.
From different incentives to interconnection processes, solar + storage projects require real experience to ensure the project goes smoothly from start to finish. With experience dating back to 2013, and direct involvement in developing some applicable regulations, we know how to make these projects work.
Battery Storage
Photos from Tesla, Enel and Fluence
Hailed as a game changer, battery storage projects will be ubiquitous one day. Until then, making each project a reality requires breaking through barriers. Knowing the roadblocks that lie ahead, and potential options to avoid them, is critical to choosing the right opportunities to pursue.
ISO/RTO interconnection queues are quickly filling with battery storage projects and growth is nearly exponential. Yet, many of these projects will fail without the experience needed to stack or de-risk revenue streams, choose sites wisely, or manage other critical factors. Experience from working on some of the earliest projects in the US that participated in ISO/RTO markets will help ensure your project’s success.
While changing, the regulatory challenges for storage remain significant. FERC has worked to open ISO/RTO markets to energy storage, but most grid operators are still defining participation rules. Transmission planners are only beginning to understand the potential of energy storage and continue to seek clarification from FERC. Utilities, uncertain of stacked revenues, are often approaching battery storage projects cautiously. Through Center for Renewables Integration, we have been at the forefront working at FERC and ISO/RTOs on regulations that enable front-of-meter battery storage, participating directly to help shape rules and create markets.