The PJM capacity market is in acute stress. Capacity auction costs have grown 7x, from $2.2 billion to roughly $16 billion in under three years, and the latest auction still cleared nearly 7,000 MW short of reliability targets.
Battery energy storage systems can add capacity quickly. Under bring-your-own-capacity (BYOC) arrangements like the one Voltus and Google are deploying in PJM, large new loads such as data centers fund the capacity directly, making distributed energy resources bankable. The challenge now is finding enough DER supply. C&I facilities are the low-hanging fruit for siting batteries. They account for more than 60% of U.S. electricity use and are well suited to host, so why aren’t they yet?
In this Frontier Forum, Latitude Media senior reporter Maeve Allsup and Tim Hade, Senior Vice President of Battery Energy Storage at Voltus, explore what it will take to deploy more batteries, faster. They’ll cover what BYOC offers a C&I host site, what stands in the way of putting a battery on its property, how distributed battery portfolios can deliver the reliability grid operators and large loads need, and how to simplify the process for hosts from deployment through aggregation and accreditation.
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