Standard battery energy storage system profiles: Analysis of various applications for stationary energy storage systems using a holistic simulation framework

•Standard storage profiles are defined and published as open source data for the applications self-consumption increase, industrial peak shaving and frequency containment reserve.•Open source simulation framework SimSES is used to derive storage profiles from input profiles and various system topologies.•Profiles are defined by the six characteristics: full equivalent cycles, efficiency, cycle depth, number of changes of sign, length of resting periods, energy between changes of signs.•The six characteristics, which differ greatly depending on the battery energy storage system’s application, are essential for the design of the storage system.