Economic opportunities and challenges of behind-the-meter BESS installations

Economic opportunities and challenges of behind-the-meter BESS installations

by	Wardi Hussein
Supervisor(s)	Josef.Noll, Frederik Huld
Due date	2026/05/15
Status	Ongoing
Problem description:	Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) adoption in Norway has historically been very low compared to its neighbours in Sweden, Denmark, the UK, and Germany. The reason for this has been an abundance of energy generation and associated low prices due to large reserves of hydroelectric power. However, the increase in electric vehicle (EV) purchases and sudden increase in fast-charging installations, as well as the North Sea Link has put pressure on an ageing power network and caused price instabilities far outside historical norms. Behind-the-meter (BTM) BESS is a BESS connected to a power generator or power consumer, without direct connection to the energy grid. The potential of such BESS for energy shifting, trading (NODES, Nord Pool) and peak shaving make it attractive for generating revenue, reducing costs, and reducing stress on the Norwegian grid. However, determining the optimal factors necessary for BESS to be profitable is not trivial. Energy tariffs, grid connection fees, BESS lifetime and power capabilities vs cost are just some of the aspects that can cause a BESS business case to fail. The current project proposes to explore the revenue generation potential of a BTM BESS installation and determine the main (monetary) risk factors associated with such an installation.
Methods and Tools:	The tools and methods in this thesis are based on A set of scenario, describing the challenges A list of requirements being extracted from the scenarios A description and evaluation of technologies and tools being candidates for solutions A functional architecture/description of the envisaged system An implementation of the core concepts A demonstration of the solution An evaluation of the solution, including a critical review of the descisions taken earlier Conclusions References
Time schedule	The envisaged time schedule (for a long thesis/60 ECTS) is: T0 0 starting month, T0+m denotes the month where the contribution to a certain chapter shalle be finalized T0+2 months: create an initial page describing the scenario T0+3: Provide a list of technologies which you think are necessary for the thesis T0+4: Establish the table of content (TOC) of the envisaged thesis. Each section shall contain 3-10 keywords describing the content of that section T0+7: Provide a draft of section 2 (scenario) and 3 (technologies) T0+10: Establish a draft on what to implement/architecture T0+11: Set-up an implementation, testing and evaluation plan T0+15: Evaluate your solution based on a set of parameters, keep in mind there is no such thing as a free lunch T0+17: Deliver the thesis
Pre-Knowledge	This thesis includes a reasonable amount of programming. The envisaged thesis is based on radio communications, thus expects the user to have followed at least two radio-related courses
Approved	Pending by
Keywords	Battery
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TOC

Title page, abstract, ...

1. Introduction, containing: short intro into the area, what is happening

1.1 Motivation, containing: what triggered me to write about what I'm writing about

1.2 Methods, containing: which methods are you using, how do you apply them

2. Scenario, optional chapter for explaining some use cases

2.1 user scenario, (bad name, needs something bedre)

2.2 Requirements/Technological challenges

3. State-of-the art/Analysis of technology, structure your content after hardware/SW (or other domains). Describe which technologies might be used to answer the challenges, and how they can answer the challenges

3.1 technology A

3.2 technology B

4. Implementation

4.1 Architecture, functionality

4.2

5. Evaluation

6. Conclusions

References

Comments

Red line

Your thesis should have a "red line", which is visible throughout the whole thesis. This means you should mention in the beginning of each chapter how the chapter contributes to the "goals of the thesis".

Use of scientific methods

A thesis follows a standard method:

• describe the problem (problemstilling)
• extract the challenges. These challenges should be measurable, e.g. method is too slow to be useful to voice handover.
• Analyse technology with respect to challenges. Don't write & repeat "everything" from a certain technology, concentrate on those parts (e.g. protocols) which are of importance for your problem

References

• Wikipedia is good to use to get an overview on what is happening. But there is not scientific verification of Wikipedia, thus you should use wikipedia only in the introduction of a chapter (if you use text from wikipedia). Use scientific literature for your thesis.
• Scientific library is "at your hand", you can get there directly from UiO: [[How to get access to IEEE, Springer and other scientific literature -> Unik/UiOLibrary]]
• I suggest that references to web pages, e.g. OASIS, W3C standards, are given in a footnote. Only if you find white papers or other .pdf documents on a web page then you refer to them in the reference section.

Evaluation of own work

Perform an evaluation of your own work. Revisit the challenges and discuss in how you fulfilled them. Provide alternative solution and discuss what should be done (or what could have been done).