scholarly journals Competition between simultaneous demand-side flexibility options: the case of community electricity storage systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 269 ◽  
pp. 114969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Scheller ◽  
Robert Burkhardt ◽  
Robert Schwarzeit ◽  
Russell McKenna ◽  
Thomas Bruckner
Biomimetics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Alisson Dodón ◽  
Vanessa Quintero ◽  
Miguel Chen Austin ◽  
Dafni Mora

This work has its origin in the growing demands of energy regulations to meet future local targets and to propose a global implementation framework. A literature review related to conventional electrical energy storage systems has been carried out, presenting different cases analyzed at building scale to deepen in nature-inspired processes that propose reductions in environmental impact and present improvements in these storage devices. The use of batteries, especially lithium-ion batteries, is the most prominent among the electrical storage applications; however, improvements have been proposed through hydrogen batteries or the implementation of more environmentally friendly materials to manufacture the electrodes. In this sense, oriented to creating systems designed to protect the environment, important advances have been made in the development of storage systems based on biomimetic strategies. The latter range from the generation of energy through the respiratory processes of microorganisms to the recreation of the generation, storage, and release of energy using the thermoelectric and thermoregulatory characteristics of some insects. These facts show that the trend in research towards improving existing systems continues but reinforces the idea that new solutions must be environmentally friendly, so there is still a long way to improving the processes established thus far.


Author(s):  
Juan Aurelio Montero-Sousa ◽  
Luis Alfonso Fernández-Serantes ◽  
José-Luis Casteleiro-Roca ◽  
Xosé Manuel Vilar-Martínez ◽  
Jose Luis Calvo-Rolle

The successive energy crises, usually linked to the rising prices of oil, bring about new topics of the energy systems management in general terms. Over all, the electrical system is one of these cases. In addition, a greater concern for environmental issues has introduced, to a greater or lesser extent, the generation from renewable sources in the electrical system. In this context, the possibility of developing and using electricity storage systems would manage mismatches between generation and demand at electricity networks, making them more efficiently. In this research, we propose a number of possible strategies based on technical peak shaving and valley filling. The tool is used as energy storage systems in general terms, regardless of the accumulation technique used. The classification of strategies essentially serves two criteria: optimization service and increased profitability.


2017 ◽  
pp. 1500-1514
Author(s):  
Juan Aurelio Montero-Sousa ◽  
Luis Alfonso Fernández-Serantes ◽  
José-Luis Casteleiro-Roca ◽  
Xosé Manuel Vilar-Martínez ◽  
Jose Luis Calvo-Rolle

The successive energy crises, usually linked to the rising prices of oil, bring about new topics of the energy systems management in general terms. Over all, the electrical system is one of these cases. In addition, a greater concern for environmental issues has introduced, to a greater or lesser extent, the generation from renewable sources in the electrical system. In this context, the possibility of developing and using electricity storage systems would manage mismatches between generation and demand at electricity networks, making them more efficiently. In this research, we propose a number of possible strategies based on technical peak shaving and valley filling. The tool is used as energy storage systems in general terms, regardless of the accumulation technique used. The classification of strategies essentially serves two criteria: optimization service and increased profitability.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byuk-Keun Jo ◽  
Seungmin Jung ◽  
Gilsoo Jang

Energy storage systems are crucial in dealing with challenges from the high-level penetration of renewable energy, which has inherently intermittent characteristics. For this reason, various incentive schemes improving the economic profitability of energy storage systems are underway in many countries with an aim to expand the participation rate. The electricity charge discount program, which was introduced in 2015 in Korea, is one of the policies meant to support the economic feasibility of demand-side energy storage systems. This paper quantitatively evaluated the impact of the electricity charge discount program on the economic feasibility of behind-the-meter energy storage systems. In this work, we first summarized how electricity customers can benefit from behind-the-meter energy storage systems. In addition, we represented details of the structure that make up the electricity charge discount program, i.e., how the electricity charge is discounted through the discount scheme. An optimization problem that establishes a charge and discharge schedule of an energy storage system to minimize each consumer’s electricity expenditure was defined and formulated as well. The case study results indicated that the electricity charge discount program has improved the profitability of behind-the-meter energy storage systems, and this improved profitability led to investment in behind-the-meter energy storage systems in Korea. As a result of the electricity charge discount program, Korea’s domestic demand side energy storage system market size, which was only 27 billion dollars in 2015 in Korea, has grown to 825 billion dollars in 2018.


2018 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 1119-1133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomos Georgiou ◽  
Nilay Shah ◽  
Christos N. Markides

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