The Brattle Group’s experts have a deep understanding of the market and regulatory fundamentals that affect existing energy storage resources and will drive future energy storage developments.
Energy storage will be transformative to the power industry. Thus, the policies and market features that drive new opportunities for storage will be examined over the next few years. Utilities, investors, technology firms, project developers, system operators, and regulators rely on our team of experts to tackle their most challenging storage issues. Our client engagements draw on our depth of storage knowledge, our storage modeling tools, and our understanding of markets and regulation. We are currently evaluating distributed and utility-scale battery, thermal, compressed air, and hydro storage resources.
Our energy storage modeling platform, bSTORE, is built specifically to evaluate the economics and operations of energy storage facilities. We have utilized bSTORE on behalf of project developers, investors, and utilities for asset valuation, assessing customer benefits, and conducting market impact analyses. We use bSTORE to provide clients with insights about their projects while simulating real-world complexities, such as important regulatory requirements, technical capabilities, market structure, multiple wholesale and retail value streams, and day-ahead and real-time energy and ancillary services markets with imperfect foresight.