The technical literature on batteries published in the last five years is incredibly vast. It is an enormous challenge to separate relevant publications to provide an up-to-date overview on the subject. We selected a small group but representative of key themes to guide professionals interested in grid-scale battery applications. All publications of the list below can be downloaded from the web.

We hope this list can be a valuable tool for practitioners and the academic community. If you have any additional publication considered relevant for expanding the knowledge in the BESS area, please let send it to knowbess@gmail.com

We organized the publications in four groups:

(1) Utility-Scale Applications;

(2) Battery Technology and Performance Assessment;

(3) Regional Studies and Cases;

(4) Market Development Studies

1. Publications in the Area of Utility-Scale Applications

Rancilio G, Rossi A, Di Profio C, Alborghetti M, Galliani A, Merlo M. Grid-Scale BESS for Ancillary Services Provision: SoC Restoration Strategies. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10(12):4121. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10124121

Ashton, C. et al., Energy Storage Primer, IEEE, 07 Apr 2020.Available online: https://resourcecenter.ieee-pes.org/publications/white-papers/PES_TP_WP_NRG-STORAGE.html

Marnell K, Obi M, Bass R. Transmission-Scale Battery Energy Storage Systems: A Systematic Literature Review. Energies. 2019; 12(23):4603. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12234603

Faunce, T.A., Prest, J., Su, D. et al. On-grid batteries for large-scale energy storage: Challenges and opportunities for policy and technology. MRS Energy & Sustainability 5, 10 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/mre.2018.11

R. H. Byrne, T. A. Nguyen, D. A. Copp, B. R. Chalamala and I. Gyuk, "Energy Management and Optimization Methods for Grid Energy Storage Systems," in IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 13231-13260, 2018, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2741578

International Renewable Energy Agency-IRENA, Utility´Scale Batteries Innovation Landscape Brief, 2019. Report available online: https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2019/Sep/IRENA_Utility-scale-batteries_2019.pdf

2. Publications in the Area of Battery Technology and Performance Assessment

Daniel Kucevic, D. et al. Standard battery energy storage system profiles: Analysis of various applications for stationary energy storage systems using a holistic simulation framework, Journal of Energy Storage. Volume 28, April 2020, 101077, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2019.101077

Nikiforidis, G., Van de Sandenac, M. C. M, Tsampas, M.N., High and intermediate temperature sodium–sulfur batteries for energy storage: development, challenges and perspectives, RSC Advances, Issue 10, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RA08658C

Neha Chawla, N., Safa, M., Sodium Batteries: A Review on Sodium-Sulfur and Sodium-Air Batteries, Electronics 2019, 8(10), 1201; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8101201

Jansson, Samuel, Evaluation of KPIs and Battery Usage of Li-ion BESS for FCR Application, Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Technology, Department of Engineering Sciences, Electricity, 2019. available online: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1356610&dswid=307

Abbas M, Kim E-s, Kim S-k, Kim Y-s. Comparative Analysis of Battery Behavior with Different Modes of Discharge for Optimal Capacity Sizing and BMS Operation. Energies. 2016; 9(10):812. https://doi.org/10.3390/en9100812

3. Publications in the Area of Regional Studies and Cases

International Renewable Energy Agency-IRENA, Utility´Scale Batteries Innovation Landscape Brief, 2019. Report available online: https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2019/Sep/IRENA_Utility-scale-batteries_2019.pdf

Shiraki, H., Sugiyama, M., Matsuo, Y. et al. The role of renewables in the Japanese power sector: implications from the EMF35 JMIP. Sustain Sci 16, 375–392 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-00917-y

Madjid Kübler et al., German Experiences with Large-Scale Batteries: Study in the Context of German-Turkish-Cooperation in the Energy Sector, Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena), June 2020. Available online: https://www.dena.de/fileadmin/user_upload/200716_short_study_Large_scale_batteries_dena_final.pdf

European Commission, Strategic Research Agenda for batteries 2020, Available online: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/topics/technology-and-innovation/batteries-europe/news-articles-and-publications/sra_en

World Nuclear Association, Electricity and Energy Storage, 2020. Available online: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/electricity-and-energy-storage.aspx

U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Storage Grand Challenges, Washington, Dec.2020. Available online: https://www.energy.gov/energy-storage-grand-challenge/articles/energy-storage-grand-challenge-roadmap

The World Bank, Korea's Energy Storage System Development : The Synergy of Public Pull and Private Push. 2020. Available online: https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/152501583149273660/pdf/Koreas-Energy-Storage-System-Development-The-Synergy-of-Public-Pull-and-Private-Push.pdf

The Lantau Group, Opportunities for Battery Storage in Asia and Australia, July 2019. Available online: https://www.lantaugroup.com/file/ppt_global19_sf.pdf

Handbook on Battery Energy Storage System, Asian Development Bank, December 2018. Available online: https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/479891/handbook-battery-energy-storage-system.pdf

Delloit, Supercharged: Challenges and opportunities in global battery storage markets, 2018. Available online: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/bg/Documents/energy-resources/gx-er-challenges-opportunities-global-battery-storage-markets.pdf

Stein K, Tun M, Musser K, Rocheleau R. Evaluation of a 1 MW, 250 kW-hr Battery Energy Storage System for Grid Services for the Island of Hawaii. Energies. 2018; 11(12):3367. https://doi.org/10.3390/en11123367

Renewable Energy Association, Energy Storage in the UK: An Overview, 2nd edition, 2016. Available online: https://www.r-e-a.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Energy-Storage-FINAL6.pdf

4. Publications in the Area of Market Development Studies

World Bank, Economic Analysis of Battery Energy Storage Systems, May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1596/33971

Robson, P., Bonomi, D., Dufresne Research, Growing the Battery Storage Market 2020: Exploring Four Key issues, Munich, Germany, 2020. Available online: http://www.energystorageforum.com/

U.S. Department of Energy, 2020 Grid Energy Storage Technology Cost and Performance Assessment, Technical Report Publication No. DOE/PA-0204 December 2020 Available online: https://www.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/media/file/Final%20-%20ESGC%20Cost%20Performance%20Report%2012-11-2020.pdf

Brun, L.C., Gereffi, G., , Lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage Systems: North Carolina's Company Footprint in the Global Value Chain, Audubon North Carolina, June 2020, doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10329.54886

Braeuera, F., Romingerb, J., McKennac, R., Fichtnera, W., Battery storage systems: An economic model-based analysis of parallel revenue streams and general implications for industry, Applied Energy, February 2019 doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.01.050

Roland Berger, Business models in energy storage: Energy storage can bring utilities back into the game, May 2017. Available online: https://www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/Publications/Business-Models-in-Energy-Storage.html