On september 30, IMDEA Energy hosted the workshop “Empowering Grid Stability with PV &BESS: Trackling Safety Challenges”, organized with the sponsorship of Sungrow and the collaboration of DNV. The workshop served as the technical seminar complementing the activities of Sungrow Day and brought together around 100 participants from renewable power generation companies, grid operators, battery manufacturers and integrators, technology firms, and engineering companies in the energy, renewable, power electronics, and storage sectors, as well as energy-intensive industries and researchers in renewable integration and storage systems. 

The morning session focused on the safety and performance of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). It was opened by Jesús Palma, Deputy Director of IMDEA Energy and Vice President of Batteryplat, and included contributions from Sungrow experts Juan Espinoza, Jaime Sánchez, and Yimig Li, together with Carlos Hernández from DNV, who highlighted the importance of safety, new regulations, and available solutions. 

The afternoon session addressed grid stability and renewable integration. Milan Prodanovic, Head of the Electrical Systems Unit at IMDEA Energy, discussed enhancing grid resilience and flexibility with high shares of renewable energy through BESS. Sungrow experts Henry Henry Liu and Federico Feuchter presented on grid-forming technologies, black start capabilities, and solutions for photovoltaic (PV) generation. 

Both sessions concluded with a lively open debate fueled by audience questions. Attendees also had the opportunity to visit the Smart Energy Integration Laboratory (SEIL), where three batteries of different technologies and capacities are currently available for testing.