en.Wedoany.com Reported - enSights, a provider of distributed clean energy infrastructure operational intelligence and energy business management software, has announced the launch of the enSights Battery Economics Calculator for the PJM market, designed to help developers and owners assess the economic viability of energy storage projects.
The PJM market is the world's largest competitive wholesale electricity market, responsible for managing power delivery across 13 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. Operated by PJM Interconnection, it schedules real-time, day-ahead, and capacity auctions, determining the generation mix and prices for approximately 65 million people. Currently, market reforms are underway to address the massive demand from data centers.
The calculator integrates battery capacity configuration, revenue modeling, return on investment analysis, and operational assumptions into an auditable framework. Unlike traditional battery modeling tools, the calculator connects to enSights' EMS and energy business management platform, enabling organizations to carry investment assumptions through deployment, operation, and optimization.
In the PJM region, energy storage deployment is growing rapidly due to rising electricity demand, renewable energy integration, and the need for grid flexibility. However, many organizations struggle to confidently assess storage opportunities and forecast returns due to the increasing complexity of battery economics.
Project returns are no longer driven by a single revenue stream but by a combination of utility savings, demand charge reductions, energy arbitrage, capacity opportunities, market participation, and incentives. While more tools are helping to model storage economics, most stop at project evaluation. Organizations often need to manage operations, market participation, performance tracking, and revenue realization through different systems and tools, creating a disconnect between expected and actual results. At the same time, they need to justify large-scale storage investments to internal and external financial teams, investors, lenders, and stakeholders, creating an urgent need for reliable data and insights on project economic feasibility.
The enSights Battery Economics Calculator aims to address this challenge by using site-specific inputs, including utility bills, tariff structures, annual energy consumption, peak demand, and operational goals. The calculator can model battery capacity configuration scenarios and assess revenue opportunities, generate project-specific ROI, payback periods, and investment recommendations, and quantify the operational assumptions required to achieve expected returns. These insights help organizations create a clear, auditable investment case, reduce uncertainty in storage economics, and enhance investor and lender confidence in the long-term viability of projects.
Alon Mashkovich, CEO and co-founder of enSights, stated that as energy storage projects rely on multiple value streams, market participation programs, and evolving regulatory requirements, battery economics are becoming increasingly complex. Most organizations can model storage projects, but few can connect forecasts to ongoing operational execution. The company aims to help customers understand whether a project should be built, how it should be configured, and how to maximize performance once it is operational. By combining battery modeling capabilities with strategic partners supporting PJM storage development, they have created a solution that allows customers to confidently assess storage opportunities, create clear investment cases, and optimize assets once they go live.
The calculator is part of the enSights Energy Business Management platform. Organizations can use the calculator to evaluate investment opportunities and then directly transition to asset management, market participation, operational optimization, performance monitoring, and EMS control within the same platform, creating a continuous workflow from investment decision to revenue realization, helping organizations measure actual performance against the assumptions used to justify the project.
