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Why do BESS Operators
need an independent tech platform?

Warranty and Benchmarking
at a glance 

Contextualise underperformance using physical and financial inputs and compare your assets’ efficiency against maximum revenue opportunities. Establish a useful understanding of downtime due to operational constraints. Identify where the biggest losses are occurring and improve your assets’ availability. Increase risk-adjusted returns and gain counterparty accountability.

2016

Live battery installed and operated in Origami's Applications Laboratory 
(Apps Lab)

2017

First battery deployed via Origami's independent BESS portfolio management platform
(Fenchurch Station in
central London)

2019

Project development and subsequent full equity divestment of two
10MW BESS projects

2020

Origami providing software-based asset management solutions, monetised in numerous value pools

Unlock your assets' true value

As part of an on-going series in our News Channel, we'll explain how owners and operators of battery energy storage systems (BESS) must change their approach to asset management in response to ever-increasing market complexity.
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The world for owners of battery energy storage systems (BESS) has fundamentally changed. The growth of BESS and renewable energy around the world is always gathering pace. Assets have become larger, as have the amounts of money involved. This means BESS operators need to change their approach to asset management. Owners and operators have spent most of the last decade finding their feet, figuring out systems on the fly and using generic low-tech digital tools. It has been easy for them to outsource the management of BESS assets to third parties which offer highly-bundled services. Most of these services cover three main areas:

 

EPC contracting: To help operators get assets developed and built.

O&M contracting: To help operators maintain and service their assets.

Route-to-Market: To help operators ensure assets are well monetised.

 

The deficiencies of this approach are now becoming clear. In such a highly fragmented market, it has become tougher for owners to track performance data. Operators need a digital platform which provides them with reliable, independent data about the physical and financial performance of their BESS assets. This is why working with an independent BESS portfolio management platform like Origami can help. We support owners to move beyond passive outsourcing and a reliance on multiple third parties; and ultimately become more active asset managers. This helps to boost profitability, maximise asset value, and attract investment on better terms.

Warranty and Benchmarking at a glance

 

Our platform combines physical, financial and analytics data with the BESS operator’s targets, and so provides a transparent 360-degree view around the performance of their assets and portfolios. As a result, our system helps BESS operators to benchmark the performance of both their assets and route-to-market providers, and then rectify under-performance. Our granular asset performance data empowers owners to act fast.

 

Our platform can simulate BESS asset behaviour and provide owners with information and simulations about how their assets are likely to behave. This supports best practice in operations and maintenance by providing predictive fire safety alerts and insights about when an asset is likely to require repairs. This information helps BESS owners to claim on warranty and insurance policies should the worst happen; and ensures they can deliver higher returns for longer.

 

2020

Origami wins BESS assets from 3 new customers

2021

Origami successfully pioneers the de-coupling of Control & Dispatch from Optimisation & Scheduling for operational asset management of 50MW of BESS

2023

Origami signs 20yr SaaS deal to on-board all of a single customer's future assets, including rapidly growing BESS pipeline

2024

Origami provides a cutting-edge independent BESS portfolio management platform which combines physical and
financial data

BESS operators will need these insights to keep pace in the market

Our independent digital platform gives BESS operators more control. BESS asset owners and operators need to find ways to reduce costs and improve asset values. Owners with strong internal capabilities will be able to show that they are effective partners, with access to actionable real-time data. The shift is underway.



Origami provides a cutting-edge independent BESS portfolio management platform which combines the physical and financial worlds to allow Asset Owners and Operators total visibility of their portfolio of assets across all markets, creating actionable insights, streamlining performance and generating optimal risk-adjusted returns throughout the asset lifecycle.

Sophisticated
Scalable
Adaptable

Origami has invested heavily in building a sophisticated, scalable, adaptable, and secure cloud platform.

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