Agenda

• How can the revenue stack be aligned for German assets for maximum value?
• Evaluating valuation benchmarks for ready-to-build pipelines
• What role do refinancing, recapitalisation, and capital recycling play in unlocking additional value from operating assets?
• How can project developers and asset managers optimise position assets ready for high performance and investor returns over the long term?

This room will be for asset managers, operators, utilities, TSOs/DSOs, regulators and market specialists focused on battery deployment and system integration.

How do FCAs influence battery operation, market participation, and wider system outcomes?

• The future of fully merchant BESS models: how will the volatile merchant cash flows be financed moving forward?
• How has the day ahead market’s shift to 15-minute settlement benefited the merchant case and wider flexibility?
• Anticipating and combatting price spread cannibalisation
• Managing multi-market optimisation: creating value between DA & ID and attacking the upside
• How can AI & software integration improve trading opportunity in Germany?

• Strategies for cross-technology portfolios: co-location trading plans
• Geographical trading dynamics and cross border bidding strategies
• Does scale win in Germany?
• The LDES shift: how does longer duration change trading strategy?

As BESS portfolios grow in scale and complexity, asset managers are being asked to make faster, better-informed decisions across performance, availability, maintenance, warranties, commercial impact, and stakeholder reporting. AI is opening new possibilities for how this work gets done, from faster analysis and reporting to more proactive decision support.

This session explores how AI could transform BESS asset management from reactive, manual coordination into AI-supported operational intelligence. It will look at where AI can add practical value today, what needs to be solved before it can become truly operational, and how the role of the asset manager may evolve as specialist AI assistants become part of the daily operating model.

• Understand how AI could reshape the role of the BESS asset manager as portfolios become larger and more complex.
• Explore where AI can create practical value across asset management workflows, from analysis and reporting to prioritization and decision support.
• Learn what needs to be solved for AI to move from ad hoc assistance to secure, connected operational use.
• See how specialist AI assistants could support workflows such as performance monitoring, maintenance, reporting, warranty management, and stakeholder communication.
• Consider why the future of asset management is not autonomous decision-making, but human-led operational intelligence supported by AI.

• Germany's FCAs are reshaping how storage projects get built and financed, with four main types used to manage congestion: time-based/scheduled constraints, event-based constraints, ramp rate and ancillary service restrictions, and wholesale/order book schedule freezes
• Uses Gridcog modelling data to show the real revenue impact of these constraints on a standalone 50MW/2hr BESS and a co-located BESS plus solar project, comparing scenarios across constraint types and severities (e.g. 1%, 5% and 10% ramp limits, plus scheduled and event-based restrictions)
• Aimed at developers, IPPs, investors and asset managers who need bankable numbers for BESS projects constrained by FCAs
• Grid congestion and FCAs aren’t unique to Germany: dynamic operating envelopes in Australia and active network management in GB show how other markets are solving the same underlying problem in different ways

• The biggest revenues are earned on a handful of critical days – being available when market opportunities peak matters more than marginal optimisation gains every other day.
• Availability is a revenue strategy – maintenance, degradation management, and operational resilience should be designed around capturing the most valuable market windows.
• The best optimiser isn't the one that wins every day – it's the one that consistently positions the asset to perform when the stakes, spreads, and revenues are highest.

• How has procurement strategy evolved in Germany?
• What impact will the European Commission’s Industrial Accelerator Act have on procurement?
• Cybersecurity considerations in line with technology choices
• Future proofing assets for ancillary services
• How should developers be considering duration in the German market?

• Perspective of a TSO: Why do BESS offer both value and risk?
• How can BESS become an essential part for transmission system stability
• Why does the surge in BESS grid connection requests requires new coordination and regulation mechanisms?