Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are central to managing energy supply and demand, particularly when combined with renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, which can be intermittent. The biggest challenge to ensuring their safe and efficient operation is the lack of accurate methods to calculate DC Arc Flash Incident Energy. This case study by Nexamp Energy evaluated how battery chemistry affects short circuit behavior by modeling a DC BESS for a project in California.
The Transient DC Arc Flash solution provided by ETAP was also examined to highlight the usefulness of model validation and the importance of high-quality analysis methods to provide better accuracy in DCAF analysis for BESS.
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Improving DCAF incident energy analysis for BESS
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are central to managing energy supply and demand, particularly when combined with renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, which can be intermittent. The biggest challenge to ensuring their safe and efficient operation is the lack of accurate methods to calculate DC Arc Flash Incident Energy. This case study by Nexamp Energy evaluated how battery chemistry affects short circuit behavior by modeling a DC BESS for a project in California.
The Transient DC Arc Flash solution provided by ETAP was also examined to highlight the usefulness of model validation and the importance of high-quality analysis methods to provide better accuracy in DCAF analysis for BESS.
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