Webinar – BESS procurement and QAQC – Challenges and best practices to maximise ROI

A well-structured procurement framework is key to ensure a successful execution of BESS projects: from RFQ planning, through suppliers levelisation, and up to the verification of execution quality throughout the whole execution and until commissioning. While BESS products tended towards technical homogeneity in the past few years (20 ft containers, 314Ah cells), the landscape is today evolving again towards a wider technical differentiation (stacked systems, higher capacity cells, new chemistries). This wider market offering provides much greater flexibility for particular project needs, but brings along technical risks and new challenges, in a field where technology expertise and track record is still lacking. Besides, maintenance and performance guarantee structures from different suppliers are often far from comparable, and there are quite a few remaining challenges as per how to clearly define, in contracts, and how to properly monitor, in the field, key quality and performance KPIs such as availability or state-estimation precision (SOC, SOH). Also, there is still a lack of knowledge and standardisation on how to assess the occurrence and severity of different failure modes (FMECA) and how to assess the potential implications of such operating failures (CBA), which drives most owners and sponsors no other alternative than to take the commercial decisions purely based on OEMs recommendations. But it is not only about technical excellence and quality assurance. But also, bankability. In this regard, innovative solutions such as vendor financing structures can pose significant advantages in the negotiation of project finance terms and in the final cost of capital. In this webinar we will deep dive into BESS procurement, covering both technical and commercial structures, highlighting the most common challenges and introducing innovative practices that can effectively improve TCO, LCOS and ROI. You will obtain a critical perspective on: 

• Relevant design and quality assurance aspects that are often unaddressed in procurement processes
• The range and differences of commercial structures and performance guarantees that are available on the market and their later implications throughout assets operation
• Best practices and innovative solutions that can improve your projects’ bankability conditions

 If you are working in BESS procurement, quality, or project financing, and you want to go beyond CAPEX comparison to ensure technical excellence, reduce procurement and execution risks, and improve financing costs, this webinar is for you.