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Operations for an Independent Battery Energy Storage System

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Ryan Knapp

Hello IMPLAN team,

I hope this message finds you doing well!

I'm in the midst of a project where we are modeling the construction and operations of a stand-alone Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). The BESS will be unmanned, but will require intermittent maintenance through a contract agreement. We have some information on how operations purchases are disaggregated, but not enough to create a fully customized spending pattern. We could modify a few commodities but we don't have full information otherwise.

For operations, what would you recommend is the best industry to model within? We're curious about the industry selection because we want to model the BESS operations by itself, independent of solar facilities. We suspect the LPF would be different from say industry 42 ("Electric power generation - Solar") because the BESS will have uses beyond solar power generation. As a side note, the county we are modeling within does not have industry 42; however, we've utilized other geographies to inject industry 42 into the county of analysis to test operations spending in that industry.

Please let me know if I can clarify any of my remarks above! Thank you so much for your assistance.

Kind regards,

Ryan

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    Michael Nealy

    Hello Ryan!

    After looking through the 2022 NAICS Manual, I am not finding a great fit for a 6 digit NAICS code that would capture Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), only the manufacturing of these storage systems. This means that there is not a great way to find an IMPLAN Industry that has an LPF completely representative of the operations you want to model. With this in mind, you would want to choose the IMPLAN Industry that most closely resembles the production makeup of the BESS based on the underlying data in the Region. As opposed to an electric power generation Industry, such as Industry 42, you may want to consider looking into Industry 47 - Electric Power Transmission and Distribution. The default Spending Pattern for Industry 47 is primarily made up of purchasing Commodity 3039 - Electricity (which is produced by all of the electric power generating Industries). However, if there is no presence of Industry 42 in the Region, the purchase of electricity will not be assumed to be coming from solar power generation (without first customizing the Region as you have noted). 

    Ultimately, the best thing to do here would be to utilize an Industry Impact Analysis (Detailed) Event, while specifying as many known characteristics for the facility as you can (Output and its individual components, Employment, and Spending Pattern) based on the data you have (regardless of the Industry chosen). Apologies that I do not have a better answer for you, but please feel free to follow up with any additional questions you may have.

     

    Best,

    Michael Nealy

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    Ryan Knapp

    Thank you so much, Michael! This suggestion is perfect. We were running some tests with industry 42 before I posted this message, but ultimately wanted to make sure we were on the correct track and were considering all valid industry modeling options. We are going to run some models using industry 47 to compare to the results we've produced for industry 42.

     

    Warm regards,

     

    Ryan

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