Market Support for Utility-Scale PV+BESS

DEC’s advanced controls open market opportunities for BESS and PV+BESS resources. Trimark’s DEC determines the baseload power that the battery and/or PV can support. That’s critical information Scheduling Coordinators need for market bids. DEC applies advanced algorithms that let you sell power (discharge) or charge the battery (from PV or Grid) based on bid obligation
and current market rates.

Reserve and Regulation Markets

DEC supports BESS participation in the lucrative reserve and regulation markets. The system can accept and execute secure AGC dispatches for regulation up and regulation down at the specified ramp rate.

DEC lets your BESS act as a peaker in 5-minute, spin, or non-spin markets. Trimark’s DEC also manages balance of plant, emergency ride through, active power management, and reactive power.

Support for Scheduling Coordinators

Trimark’s DEC provides sophisticated dispatching workflows required to manage BESS in open energy markets. DEC allows SCs to:

• Easily respond to pricing signals.
• Define output according to forecast load profile.
• Schedule control modes to deliver the desired shape and grid services (e.g. min-max with Active Power Response).
• Define algorithms to optimize output shape using normalized utility input and hourly dispatch.
• Validate the proposed schedule using day-ahead generation forecast and load profiles.
• Schedule operating modes and adjust generation with AGC.

Unify PV+BESS Management for Stability

DEC lets you manage PV and BESS in a coordinated way. DEC will balance plant generation and storage to automatically:

• Regulate voltage, power factor, and real power.
• Manage balance of plant, emergency ride through, active power smoothing.
• Maintain power production within interconnection limit.
• Support frequency response.
• Comply with volt-VAR requirements.

Intelligently Manage Charge/Discharge Events

DEC lets you make informed decisions about resource charge/discharge based on total state-of-charge, generation forecast, contract, etc. It helps:

• Manage charge/discharge decisions based on state-of-charge, generation forecast, contract, etc.
• Prevent violations with finely tuned ramp rate control.
• Comply with regulation and utility requirements.
• Prioritizes battery charge during PV curtailment.
• Avoid grid charging (for sites with ITC considerations).

Supports Dispatchability

DEC can accept commands from the balancing authority so you can:

• Operate as Baseload plant in day-ahead market.
• Perform as a peaker to fulfill 5-minute, spin/non-spin dispatches.
• Provide ancillary services.