REopt Assesses the Value of Storage in Microgrid Design for DOD ESTCP

A live microgrid demo in the NLR Energy Systems Integration Facility Power Systems Integration Laboratory. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, National Laboratory of the Rockies

In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), NLR is conducting REopt^® modeling to assess the value of integrating large-scale battery energy storage into current and future microgrids at military installations. NLR will model seven conceptual microgrid designs with and without energy storage to quantify the economic and resilience benefit of energy storage. These results will be used to benchmark comparisons from ESTCP awardees' model outputs.