Director of Product Engineering / BESS Vancouver, BC

Practical BESS engineering
for bankable projects.

Field-tested BESS notes, tools, and training covering design decisions, project delivery, vendor evaluation, commissioning, and bankability.

Experience
15+ years
Project scale
10+ GWh delivered
Training
1,000+ engineers

20-ft BESS Container - Concept to Finished Product

Engineering blueprint to integrated system to finished unit
20-ft LFP / liquid-cooled
01
Concept
Sizing, layout and blueprint
02
Model
Racks, BMS and integration
03
Finished Product
Enclosed, integrated unit
BESS container blueprint to commissioned unit
FIG. B / 20-ft containerized BESS
Container - concept to solution
The practice

Helping deliver bankable, buildable battery energy storage projects - from spec to commissioning.

Storage is being built faster than the industry can train the people who will deliver it. This site, and the course it grew into, is one engineer's contribution to closing that gap: practical engineering experience written down and passed on to the next engineer in the chair.

01 / On Udemy

The course.

Everything I wish I had when I started in storage: sequenced, illustrated, and built around projects I have actually delivered.

03 / The author
Sergey presenting at a podium during an engineering session

Sergey Syrvachev

An engineer who writes things down.

I write as BESS.engineer: a working notebook from product engineering in the battery energy storage industry, based in Vancouver, BC.

The focus is grid-scale BESS delivery: system architecture, integration, certification, project execution, and the engineering decisions that lock in for decades of operation.

If this site helps you make one better project decision, it has done its job.

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Energy & product engineering
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Grid-scale BESS projects delivered
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Engineers, PMs & developers trained
04 / The toolkit

What I actually use.

The working set for BESS delivery: proven on real projects, kept around long enough to recommend without caveats.

P6
Primavera P6
Schedule, critical path, milestones
ET
ETAP
Short circuit, arc flash, power flow
CAD
AutoCAD
One-lines, site layouts, markups
SAM
NREL SAM
Performance, dispatch, revenue cases
py
Python + Pandas
BESS logs, data wrangling, reporting
BI
Power BI
Project dashboards, KPIs, reports
Cf
Confluence
Project docs, RAID, spec libraries
Ob
Obsidian
Field notes, linked notebook, backlinks
05 / From the notebook

Latest notes.

Recent LinkedIn posts and working entries on BESS delivery, updated as the projects update.

BESS container anatomy

A field-oriented look at racks, BMS, HVAC, fire safety, auxiliary power, access, and the service zones that matter in a container layout.

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PCS efficiency dispatch profile

Why part-load operation changes round-trip expectations, and how a dispatch profile should be read before promising project-level efficiency.

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Battery storage commissioning

Commissioning is not a single test. It is a chain of factory, site, controls, protection, and revenue-readiness gates that protect COD.

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Standards I work to, every day.
Reference frameworks
UL 9540A
Fire propagation
NFPA 855
Installation
IEC 62933
Storage systems
IEEE 1547
Interconnection
UL 1973
Battery safety
NERC CIP
Cyber / reliability
Get in touch

Running a BESS project?

Reach out for project direction work, consulting on storage delivery, course collaborations, or a second pair of eyes on a one-line.