Guides and analysis on battery energy storage: EMS control, power plant controllers, sizing, economics, and the market rules that shape revenue.
New project in Des Plaines, IL pairs WATTMORE's patented Intellect Operate EMS platform with GTI Energy to work on advancing hydrogen-based microgrid research through battery energy storage initiative...
Companies combine WATTMORE's Intellect OperateTM EMS/PPC/SCADA platform with Eos' Z3TM technology to simplify deployment in a fully integrated solutionDENVER, CO and PITTSBURGH, PA (August 24, 2026) –...
Ask three vendors what a battery energy storage system costs and you will get three numbers, all of them incomplete. Not because anyone is lying, but because the number they quote is the price of the...
WATTMORE is proud to announce that it has been approved by the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) Working Group (WG) to provide Performance Data Provider (PDP) services for SGIP projects, using...
Across the country, there are solar and storage energy management systems sitting idle for one reason only: the controls have failed. The panels are fine. The batteries are fine. The inverters are fin...
WATTMORE is the mission critical operations solution for facilities that cannot blink: certified hardware and certified software, delivered end to end by one company. EMS, PPC, SCADA, DAS, metering, recloser and transformer monitoring, weather integration, and microgrids, with the certifications and proof points behind them.
Intellect PLAN, WATTMORE's financial planning and system sizing platform at wattmoreplan.com, now includes a full front of the meter (FTM) solar and storage sizing tool for ERCOT. Developers and asset...
WATTMORE is proud to announce that our patented Intellect Operate Battery Energy Management System (EMS) has successfully passed functional and safety testing with top tier hardware partner Yaskawa So...
Solar panels and batteries are going up everywhere;on homes, businesses, and industrial sites at record pace. But here is the uncomfortable truth: most of those batteries are dumb. They sit on the wal...
Intellect PLAN now ships with two new application types built specifically for the Northeast: Connecticut Storage Sizing and Massachusetts Storage Sizing. With these additions, PLAN covers eight purpo...
For seventeen months, a battery storage system at a Seattle apartment community ran itself. At 303 Battery, a residential tower in Belltown wrapped in solar, WATTMORE’s Intellect Operate ran a d...
In rural Delta, Utah, a 1.75 MW solar plant was fully built but never connected, the grid upgrade needed to energize it was too costly, leaving a valuable asset idle. WATTMORE’s Intellect O...
At an industrial fabrication facility in Thorold, Ontario, a 150 kW / 444 kWh battery is quietly rewriting the monthly power bill. E.S. Fox Limited’s behind-the-meter storage system, c...
If you operate battery energy storage in Texas, four fifteen-minute windows each summer determine a significant share of your annual transmission costs. These are the ERCOT 4CP intervals, the four coi...
The energy landscape shifted permanently in 2025. According to the new U.S. Energy Storage Market Outlook from SEIA and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the U.S. storage industry didn’t just grow, it e...
Selecting the best energy management system for a battery storage project is one of the highest-leverage decisions a developer or asset owner will make. The energy management system controls every dis...
If you are developing, financing, or operating a battery energy storage system, you have almost certainly encountered two terms that cause persistent confusion: energy management system and power plan...
Every utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) that connects to the grid needs a power plant controller. This is not optional. Without a power plant controller, your project will not pass in...
WATTMORE is launching Intellect PPC: our Power Plant Controller: as the newest product in the Intellect platform. Every utility scale battery energy storage system connected to the grid needs a PPC. I...
WATTMORE is an energy management system (EMS) and data acquisition system (DAS) company. That is what we do. We do not sell batteries. We do not install solar panels. We do not build substations. We b...
Energy storage operators should not need five platforms to run one battery system. They need one. WATTMORE's Intellect Operate is the single solution that controls your battery, monitors every compone...
Every grid connected energy storage and solar facility needs a power plant controller (PPC). It is not optional. Your interconnection agreement requires it. Your utility demands it. And if your PPC fa...
The energy storage industry has spent years separating SCADA, EMS, and power plant controller (PPC) functions into different vendor buckets. Developers end up with three contracts, three integrations,...
A microgrid is a local energy system that can run connected to the grid or islanded from it, with generation, storage, and loads coordinated by a controller. This guide covers the components, how islanding actually works, why the battery and its EMS are the enabling pieces, and the use cases where microgrids earn their keep.
No single value stream usually justifies a battery on its own; stacked together, the same asset can pay. This guide explains the main revenue streams for battery storage, why they compete for the same energy, how a storage EMS jointly optimizes them, and how market rules like FERC Order 2222 keep widening the menu.
A credible financial model is what turns a battery project into a financeable investment. This guide explains ROI, NPV, IRR, and payback for energy storage, the revenue and cost inputs that belong in the model, the pitfalls that quietly inflate projections, and why models built on real dispatch algorithms hold up.
An undersized battery leaves revenue on the table; an oversized one wastes capital. This step by step guide covers the data you need, how the tariff and use case drive the power and energy ratings, how to model the economics honestly, and why sizing with real dispatch algorithms beats simplified models.
Demand charges are set by a single fifteen minute peak each month, which makes them a natural target for a fast battery. This guide explains how peak shaving with battery storage works, what drives the savings, why forecasting decides success, and what the results look like on a live industrial site.
In energy storage, "storage EMS" and "SCADA" are sometimes used interchangeably, but they are different systems with different jobs. SCADA supervises equipment and records data; a storage EMS decides what the battery should do and does it. This guide explains the difference, where the two overlap, and when a project needs both.
A battery energy management system (battery EMS) is the software that decides when a battery charges, when it discharges, and how it takes part in energy markets. This guide explains how it works, what it controls, how it differs from a BMS and SCADA, and why it is the largest single driver of project revenue.
The storage EMS controls every dispatch decision for the life of a battery asset, which makes choosing one a bigger economic decision than most hardware line items. This guide walks through the six criteria that separate a real EMS from a monitoring portal, the mistakes buyers repeat, and the questions that expose the difference.