Webinar: Emerging US Market Requirements for Grid Forming BESS, and a Practical Exercise...

Emerging US Market Requirements for Grid-Forming BESS, and a Practical Exercise for a Potential Plant Design Approach
Featured Speakers: Frank Berring, Director of Business Development, Large Scale at SMA America; Lucas Meubrink, Senior Applications Engineer, SMA America
Webinar Abstract: The Energy Transition to renewable generation is happening right now. Renewable generation is dominating the interconnection queues, and legacy synchronous generators are scheduled for decommissioning in the coming years. These are exciting trends, yet these market dynamics create new challenges to maintain grid stability and enable additional new renewables generation to come online. Grid Forming BESS has become a well-recognized contributor toward grid stability, and several ISOs have announced plans to implement grid forming requirements in recent months.
In this webinar, SMA’s Director of Large Scale Business Development, Frank Berring, and Senior Applications Engineer, Lucas Meubrink, will share recent market news pertaining to Grid Forming BESS adoption and functional test requirements, as well as the impact of two common inverter control modes on the inverter’s behavior, and lastly a practical exploration of what a future approach of designing a plant based on a required short circuit contribution could look like.