Recording of Friday, May 09, 2025 | The smarter E Europe Exhibition Program 2025 | Exhibition Program | Language: English | Duration: 11:35 .

Exploring the Monetization and Optimization of Co-Located Battery Storage Systems in Renewable Energy Projects

The speaker discusses the monetization of large-scale battery storage systems, focusing on co-located projects that combine batteries with solar or wind energy. These setups are essential for optimizing grid connection usage and addressing issues like negative pricing in solar markets by creating a natural hedge between renewable sources and batteries. Suena GmbH, based in Hamburg, manages 400 megawatts of assets including standalone and co-located projects. They specialize in flexibility trading across various revenue streams such as wholesale power markets and balancing services to maximize profits from these flexible systems. To effectively trade across multiple revenue opportunities requires advanced software due to the complexity involved with millions of data points needing analysis every day. The presentation emphasizes determining optimal battery sizing—whether overbuilt at 100% capacity or smaller—and how this impacts business cases when integrating them into existing infrastructure like solar farms. Suena recommends using hybrid models where one trader optimizes both renewables and storage operations together for better control over production outputs while considering financial strategies like profit-sharing agreements tailored towards maximizing returns under different market conditions.

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Speaker

Lennard Wilkening
CEO & Co-Founder
Suena GmbH

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