Technical Training - Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Practice: Strategies to Enable Return on Investment

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Time: 4:00pm–6:00pm
Hall: 1st floor
Room: Jaçanã 2

The course offers a comprehensive technical and economic vision of the battery energy storage sector in Brazil. The presentation covers everything from fundamental concepts and battery technologies to selection criteria based on power, energy, and life cycles. The content explores several practical applications, including solar self-consumption, peak shaving, and grid support, detailing through an electric vehicle (EV) charging station case study how the integration of photovoltaic systems with BESS can optimize contracted demand and improve financial indicators such as NPV (VPL) and payback. Finally, the course concludes that the viability of these systems depends on "revenue stacking" and a careful analysis of operational strategies to address current investment costs.

4:00pm–6:00pmBattery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Practice: Strategies to Enable Return on Investment

Flavio da Silva Vitorino Gomes

Professor de Engenharia de Energias Renováveis

Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

Dr. Ademar Virgolino da Silva Netto

Professor do departamento de engenharia elétrica

Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

Dr. Kleber Carneiro de Oliveira

Professor

Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

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Speakers

Speaker

Flavio da Silva Vitorino Gomes, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

Professor de Engenharia de Energias Renováveis

Flávio da Silva Vitorino Gomes holds a Bachelor's degree from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB, 2002), specialization degrees from UNIUBE/SENAI (2005/2006), an M.Sc. (2010), and a Ph.D. (2016) in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES). He has 15 years of industry experience in Electrical Engineering, with emphasis on instrumentation, control, and process automation. Since 2017, he has been working as a higher education professor and is currently a faculty member in the Renewable Energy Engineering program at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), in João Pessoa, Brazil. He has experience in R&D projects funded by ANEEL, focusing on forecasting systems, automation, and control.

Speaker

Dr. Ademar Virgolino da Silva Netto, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

Professor do departamento de engenharia elétrica

Ademar Virgolino da Silva Netto received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2008, M.Sc. in 2010, and Ph.D. in 2014 from the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), including a doctoral exchange period at the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. He has been a Professor at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) since 2016, working in the fields of Automation and Intelligent Systems and affiliated with the CEAR/UFPB Embrapii Unit. He has extensive R&D experience through ANEEL-funded projects and international collaborations, with a focus on energy optimization, advanced control, and digital transformation applied to power generation systems.