Engineering Design Platform Training

Practical BESS engineering
for bankable projects.

Field-tested engineering notes, a design platform for sizing and single-line diagrams, and structured training - from first sizing pass to commissioned, bankable site.

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.

03 / The author
Sergey Syrvachev, Product Director for grid-scale BESS, presenting at an industry event

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.

0+years
Energy & product engineering
0+GWh
Grid-scale BESS projects delivered
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Engineers, PMs & developers trained
04 / Flagship course

The course.

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

05 / From the notebook

Latest notes.

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

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

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