Systems and methods for energy distribution for one or more grid - scale Energy Storage Systems ( ESSs ) , including generating one or more time series models to provide forecasted pricing data for one or more markets , determining battery life and degradation costs for one or more batteries in or more ESSs to provide battery life and degradation costs , optimizing bids for the one or more markets to generate optimal bids based on at least one of the forecasted pricing data or the battery life and degradation costs , and distribut ing energy to or from the one or more ESSs based on the optimal bids generated .