Introduction to Software for EMS Battery Systems

This comprehensive introduction course provides clean energy professionals with essential knowledge for developing and implementing energy management (EMS) software solutions for utility-scale battery systems. Students will learn the critical differences between front-of-meter and behind-the-meter systems, understand energy market operations and bidding strategies, and explore proven software architectures for battery management systems. By course completion, students will have a solid understanding of how software controls battery operations, enables market participation, and maximizes economic value in utility-scale deployments.

Ideal for managers, project managers, and software engineers, this overview will provide context to the field of software for utility-scale battery systems. Architecture lessons can be skipped if you don't want to get into the software engineering "weeds".

This course does not cover BESS software that interacts directly with hardware, but rather the higher level software the determines when batteries should charge, discharge, and send bids into the energy markets.

The course includes a demonstration of using AI to create a battery simulator that you can use with your battery system software.

The course covers:

• The need for software for battery systems

• In front of the meter and behind the meter systems

• Energy markets

• Architecture for energy market bidding

• Behind the meter systems

• Architecture for behind the meter systems

• Using Simulators

• Using AI