Energy Storage 101

Day 0 Masterclass

Energy Storage 101

12 April 2027 | Utrecht

Energy storage masterclass

This half-day masterclass provides the foundational knowledge needed to fully benefit from our Energy Storage The Netherlands conference. Covering market mechanics, storage technology, revenue models, and insights into project development, this session is ideal for newcomers, cross-sector professionals, or anyone seeking a clear, practical understanding of the BESS landscape.

The masterclass will be delivered by Jan Willem Zwang from Stratergy, whose rare combination of deep market expertise and extensive teaching experience in corporate energy trading workshops has made him a go-to authority for energy storage education.

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Energy Storage Germany Masterclass

Energy Storage 101 is part of:

Solarplaza Summit

Energy Storage The Netherlands

Utrecht
13 April 2027

Monday 12 April 2027

Program

13:00

Arrival & registration

Register, grab your badge, and get settled with a fresh coffee and light refreshments before the opening presentations begin.

Session Topics:
13:30

Electricity market fundamentals

presentation

60 min.

Understand how electricity markets work and where the opportunities for battery storage come from. This session connects the physical electricity system to trading, balancing, and congestion management, with a focus on the Netherlands and comparisons with neighboring markets. Using market data and practical examples, we follow the trading timeline, show how the markets interact and examine what drives price spreads and balancing revenues.

Session Topics:
  • From forward and day-ahead to intraday, real-time balancing and imbalance settlement
  • Why prices differ between markets and how early commitments limit later flexibility
  • The impact of renewables, gas prices and growing battery deployment
  • System balancing vs. local grid congestion
  • What this means for storage strategies
14:30

The storage asset: technical foundations & lessons learned

presentation

60 min.

Understand how a battery’s technical characteristics determine what it can earn. We connect key specifications to the requirements of different markets and walk through the main BESS components and how they interact. Lessons from existing projects show why actual performance often differs from supplier specifications and how this affects financial results, so participants can translate operational limitations into realistic business-case assumptions.

Session Topics:
  • Power, duration, usable capacity, state of charge, and round-trip efficiency
  • How the BMS, inverters, EMS, and trading optimizer work together
  • Conversion losses, auxiliary consumption, temperature restrictions, and downtime
  • Degradation, cycle and throughput limits, warranties and availability guarantees
  • Which KPIs to measure and contract, and how to coordinate suppliers and service providers
15:30

Mini coffee break & Q&A

Refuel with a quick coffee while diving deeper into the morning's topics during an interactive audience Q&A session.

Session Topics:
16:00

Revenue stacking and commercial mechanics

presentation

90 min.

Explore how to combine trading and balancing opportunities while respecting the physical and contractual limits of the asset and its grid connection. We then extend the optimization to batteries sharing a connection with solar or wind, with a focus on the financial performance of the combined site, and connect operational strategy to commercial arrangements. Throughout the session, participants work through practical trading and dispatch decisions and discuss how the best strategy changes with prices, asset availability, and grid restrictions.

Session Topics:
  • Day-ahead, intraday, imbalance exposure, FCR, aFRR and mFRR, and capacity payments vs. energy revenues
  • Allocating power and energy between markets, managing state of charge, and the opportunity cost of reserving capacity
  • Why revenues from individual strategies cannot simply be added together
  • Co-located sites: when to export, store or curtail, when grid charging adds value, and the role of shared import/export limits, forecasts and contractual obligations
  • Merchant, profit sharing, floors, tolling and benchmark-based contracts, their impact on risk and financing, and using backtesting and benchmarking to assess realistic revenue capture
17:30

Networking drinks

Unwind after the masterclass with a well-deserved drink, catch up with peers, and discuss the day's key takeaways in a relaxed setting.

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