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Storage Wars: Industrial Energy Storage
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July 9, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm ET
Andrew Whitlock
U.S. Department of Energy
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Energy Storage Overview

Onsite Energy Generation

Energy Flow
Energy Storage
System
Behind the Meter: Battery Energy Storage Concepts, Requirements, and Applications - IEEE Smart Grid
Examples of Energy Storage Technologies

Mechanical Thermal Electrochemical Chemical

Chilled
Pumped
water/Ice Lead Acid Hydrogen
Hydro
Storage

Compressed Ceramic
Lithium-ion Ammonia
Air Bricks

Flywheels Flow
Potential Benefits of Energy Storage

Energy Arbitrage Charge when costs are low and discharge when costs
are high

Demand Charge
Management Discharge when approaching peak load to reduce
demand
Renewable
Energy Enables intermittent renewable energy sources to be
Integration dispatched

Resilience Can serve as an uninterruptable power supply for

critical loads or reliable backup energy source

Grid Services Provides frequency regulation and voltage support

among other ancillary services
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY | INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY & DECARBONIZATION OFFICE 10
Onsite Energy Program

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Onsite Energy Program provides technical
assistance, market analysis, and best practices to help industrial facilities and other
large energy users increase the adoption of onsite clean energy technologies.

battery storage | combined heat and power | district energy | fuel cells | geothermal | industrial heat pumps
| renewable fuels | solar PV | solar thermal | thermal storage | waste heat to power| wind
Getting Started: How to Work with Your Onsite Energy TAP
Today’s Presenters

Denise Breitneicher Dan Gentry Adam Jacobson

Massachusetts Water Resource Trane Technologies Trane Technologies
Authority
Denise Breitneicher
Massachusetts Water Resource Authority
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority

Industrial Energy Storage Solutions

BESS Deployment by a Large Water and Wastewater Utility

Denise K. Breiteneicher
Program Manager, Energy & Environmental Management
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
 Massachusetts Water Resources Authority

• MWRA is a quasi-state agency

established by the Legislature in 1984

• Provides wholesale water and wastewater services

– 3.1 million people and more than 5,500 large industrial users in 61
communities (and growing)

• Water comes from protected Quabbin and Wachusett Reservoirs in Central MA

– Treated at the Carroll Water Treatment Plant in Marlborough
– Average 200 million gallons per day of water supplied

• Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in Boston Harbor

– Average 350 million gallons per day of wastewater treated
MWRA Service Area
MWRA Battery Energy Storage Systems Background

• MWRA’s Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) at the Chelsea

Administration building and Brattle Ct. water pump station are 250
kW/500 kWh systems.
• BESS were installed under a pilot demonstration program funded by
local electric utility (Eversource)
• BESS are used strictly to:
– Reduce demand costs ($ saving)
– Participate in grid peak reductions (earn
revenue)
• These BESS are not large enough to provide
any resiliency for these critical facilities.
• MWRA has a performance guarantee, so no payments made unless
our savings exceed guarantee amount ($30,000)
Contracting/Operational Complexities

• MWRA was able to take advantage of Eversource’s BESS demonstration

program because:
– Batteries provided at no cost to the MWRA
– Eversource went out to bid for the BESS supplier
• Operationally, Stem Inc. owns the batteries and MWRA has a 10 year lease.
– At the end of 10 years, Stem will either remove the batteries and leave
the site as it was or MWRA can work out a contract to keep the
batteries
– If a problem is detected with the BESS, Stem dispatches its local
electrical contractor to diagnose and remedy the problem and notifies
MWRA – almost always within 24 hours
– Stem monitors the AI controlling the BESS and reprograms as necessary
to maximize savings and revenue
MWRA Operational Considerations

– Administration building operates on a fairly regular schedule –

the HVAC system begins to ramp up at 6 am and begins set-
backs at 4 pm.
– Brattle Ct. Water PS operates primarily on water demand– the
pumps are the primary electricity users and operate more
frequently when more water is being called for in our service
area.
– Additionally, this water pump station operates in tandem with
another pump station.
– The pumps can operate for short periods of time or for several
hours/days.
Chelsea Admin Building BESS data 7/31/23-8/29/23
Chelsea Admin Building BESS data for 7/14/23
Brattle Court BESS data for 4/8/23-5/8/23
Brattle Court BESS data for 4/8/23
Savings/Revenue to Date

• Demand (kW) Savings to Date:

– March 1, 2021-March 1, 2022: $1,115
– March 2, 2022-March 1, 2023: $25,032

• Utility’s Revenue from participation in grid peak reductions to

Date:
– Summer of 2022: Not enrolled in the program
– Summer of 2023: $16,081
– Summer of 2024: enrolled in a new Eversource peak reduction
program that pays substantially more for discharging the
batteries
Dan Gentry
Trane Technologies

Adam Jacobson
Trane Technologies
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Industrial Energy Storage Solutions
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Combined with Thermal Energy Storage
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Heat Pumps and Thermal Energy Storage Discussion Topics
• Types of thermal energy storage systems available

• Factors for effective and efficient heat pumps & thermal storage

• Water – the unique thermal storage substance

• Combined heat pumps and thermal storage solutions

• Case study for Trane Technologies, La Crosse, WI

Subject Matter Experts at Trane Technologies deliver Thermal Energy Storage (TES)
solutions to customers worldwide by using a wide range of products and systems to
reduce energy consumption/carbon footprint and realize sustainability goals.
Types of Thermal Energy Storage Approximately 1/3 of energy use for all U.S.
• Ice commercial buildings in 2018 was for space
heating
• Chilled Water Source: Use of energy in commercial buildings
• Hot Water - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Means of Storage
• Modular – Calmac Ice Tanks can used in parallel to
provide thermal storage. The quantity of tanks required
is determined by the needs of the building

• Custom Builds – steel or concrete singular capable of

storing millions of gallons of water

Trane Scope of Services

• Trane provides modular solutions, chillers, and heat
pumps required to make the ice
Thermal Energy Storage - Modular
• You know these as “Ice Storage Tanks.”

• They are thermal energy storage devices (Thermal

Energy = Heat).
o When you take heat out  the water turns to ice.
o When you put heat in  the ice melts.

GOALS
Thermal Energy Storage
Thermal Energy Storage
• Components of a typical ice storage tank

Tank Expansion
Chamber

Insulation
Heat
GOALS Exchanger
 Heat pumps with ice AWHP
storage Source and Sink Loop
68° F M

• System loops – small to M

medium sized building 57° F

AWHP
M
Heat Source
Heat Sink
Cooling Distribution Loop
Heating Distribution Loop
M M M

SSHP Energy
Chiller-Heater Transfer Loop
57° F
100°F M

M
TES
42° F
Heating coils
Cooling coils
115°F SSHP Energy Storage Transfer Loop
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Trane Technologies La Crosse Site – Training Facility Building
• Originally built in 1951, final expansion 1982

• 79,338 ft2

• Two-stories
o First story – shop space, weld and braze
training, office space
o Second story – offices, breakout rooms,
lecture hall, student lounge

• Building needed renovation and refresh,

completed 2023

• Aging HVAC system was replaced with ACX

Heat Pump/RTWD Heat Pump/Calmac Ice
Storage Tanks
 Heat Pump/Thermal Storage System* addresses these
challenges, and more!
1. Thermal Balancing 4. Peak electrical demand and energy cost reductions
2. Space for heat pumps outdoors 5. Affordable, reliable solution for electrification
3. Efficient use of heat pumps in colder climate

Sustainability Efficiency Reliability

• Enables elimination of fossil fuels for • Reclaims excess energy (heat) from • Uses stored heating until more
heating to reduce carbon. Estimated impact the building, stores and uses it to heat favorable conditions are available for
for Training Facility – 21 mtCO2e annually the building at other times AWHP operation such as extreme
cold/defrost cycle
• Makes electrified heat pump heating • Captures other sources of thermal
possible in cold, dense urban environments energy, above 32°F, to be stored for • Backs up AWHP with stored energy
where there is limited roof space later use (domestic wastewater, for 12-24 hours depending on system
exhaust air, etc.) and economic parameters
• Avoids wasting water required to reject heat
through a cooling tower. Estimated impact • Collects ambient energy when • Downsizes back up heating and power
– 30-40 million gallons of water usage temperatures are warm and when it is sources such as electric boilers and
annually beneficial to customer generators
• Aligns with our 2030 Sustainability • Ice making COP during heating is • Adds “Storage” to be used as a Grid
Commitments and will save significant much better than AWHP at very cold Resource
amounts of water by eliminating the once ambient temperatures
through water cooled systems.
Trane Thermal Battery Storage Source Heat Pump System 36

*Source: Electrification, HP’s and TES-ASHRAE Journal July 2020

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Additional Denise Breitneicher
Massachusetts Water Resource
Authority

Questions? denise.breiteneicher@mwra.com

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