Hugh McDermott is Sr VP Business Development and Sales at ESS, INC. He tells us more about ESS and its innovative developments in energy storage as well as their Iron Flow Chemistry Technology, and shares some project examples ESS has delivered on and how this could benefit a market like Hawaii or similar islands.

This tech is competitive with existing utility scale energy storage systems in relation to:

•  Cost

•  Size or footprint

•  Environmental impact

•  Scalability

•  Dispatchability

•  Other benefits

Since there are growing numbers of utilities also looking at energy storage as a blackstart resource, there may be an application of ESS systems for this purpose.

For BES system operators, next day planners and system engineers, dispatch of this resource is a topic of great interest. This leads to system operator and dispatcher training with simulation and how they can both benefit system reliability.

Finally, this tech may be applicable to the individual prosumer or DERs.

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