Battery Energy Storage System - technology for storing electrical energy in batteries to balance production and consumption.
BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) is a large-scale battery installation used to store and release electricity - for grid stabilisation, peak shaving, frequency regulation or trading. BESS can be grid-connected at transmission or distribution level, or co-located with renewable generation. Response times are typically milliseconds to seconds, making BESS suitable for frequency regulation and primary reserve services.
Distributed Energy Resource Management System - system for managing distributed energy resources such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles.
Industry & actorsVPP →Virtual Power Plant - aggregation of distributed energy resources controlled as single unit in the power market.
Nordic-specific termBalancing power →Power that Statnett buys and sells in real-time to maintain system frequency stability at 50 Hz.
System typesEMS →Energy Management System - system for monitoring, control and optimisation of energy consumption in buildings or industry.