Date: May 2025

Designing and launching cost-effective and customer-centric battery storage programs involves complex decisions, such as choosing technologies, setting incentive levels, and identifying metrics for utility and customer benefits. In this session, E Source will host a conversation with three utility battery program and technology leaders to discuss different stages of program development and the future of batteries in utility portfolios. We’ll also explore how load management teams can leverage granular data on market trends, pricing, and technologies to quantify the value of battery programs, set incentive levels, and justify programs to regulators. Xcel Energy will also discuss how they incorporated scalable solutions for grid flexibility into their most recent distribution plan filing. Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power will share considerations that could impact their future battery value-capturing strategy, including experience with current programs and forecasted improvements in pricing and performance.

Speakers:
Michael Hartnack, E Source
Kristin Gasper, Xcel Energy
Bryan Jungers, Tucson Electric Power