Applying battery energy storage to enhance the benefits of photovoltaics

Cheng, Feng; Willard, Steve; Hawkins, John N.; Arellano, Brian; Lavrovа, Olga; Mammoli, Andrea

doi:10.1109/energytech.2012.6304684

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“…As a result, concerns are growing on the ability of the utility to maintain uniform power quality over the length of a distribution feeder. Recent work has demonstrated that a battery energy storage system (BESS) can effectively perform two important tasks: shifting renewable power delivery to times of peak demand, and smoothing intermittent PV generation before it is injected into the feeder [1]. While this approach demonstrably works, batteries are still very expensive, and their lifetime is limited.…”

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Integrating heterogeneous distributed energy resources to manage intermittent power at low cost

Abdollahy

Heine

Poroseva

et al. 2013

2013 1st IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)

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A power distribution feeder where a heterogeneous set of distributed energy resources is deployed is examined by simulation. The resources include PV, battery storage, natural gas genset and fuel cells, and active thermal storage for commercial buildings. The resource scenario considered is one that may exist in a not too distant future, and is based on an existing demonstration system in Albuquerque, NM (USA). The operation of individual DERs, and its effects on the global power flow on the feeder, are considered. Two cases of interaction between different resources are examined. One interaction involves a genset used to partially offset the duty cycle of a smoothing battery connected to a large PV system. The other example involves the coordination of twenty thermal storage devices, each associated with a commercial building. The storage devices are intended to provide maximum benefit to the building, but it is shown that this can have a deleterious effect on the overall system, unless the action of the individual storage devices is coordinated -in which case there is overall benefit to the system. The main finding is that it is possible to achieve synergy between DERs on a system, however this required a unified strategy to coordinate the action of all devices in a decentralized way. I. BACKGROUNDRecent trends in small-scale distributed generation, particularly drastic price reductions of photovoltaic (PV) systems, will soon result in high penetration levels of variable generation, some of which is not directly controlled by a utility. Moreover, much of this generation is highly intermittent. As a result, concerns are growing on the ability of the utility to maintain uniform power quality over the length of a distribution feeder. Recent work has demonstrated that a battery energy storage system (BESS) can effectively perform two important tasks: shifting renewable power delivery to times of peak demand, and smoothing intermittent PV generation before it is injected into the feeder [1]. While this approach demonstrably works, batteries are still very expensive, and their lifetime is limited. In the present work, two examples are provided to show how distributed energy resources (DERs) other than batteries can be used to achieve similar or compleFig. 1. The Studio 14 distribution feeder in Albuquerque, NM, hosting a number of DER demonstration projects that could interact to maximize economic value and system performance.mentary goals at lower cost. One type of DER that is gaining increasing interest is the microgrid, in light of increased needs for both energy efficiency and high reliability. A microgrid is a collection of DERs that, from the viewpoint of the utility, is controllable, acts as a single load, and is able to function in both grid-tied and islanded mode [2]. An islanded micro-grid must have enough storage to compensate for any mismatch between load and generation while islanded. A second type of DER that is receiving renewed attention is thermal storage [3]. In the commercial and residential buildi...

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Integrating heterogeneous distributed energy resources to manage intermittent power at low cost

Abdollahy

Heine

Poroseva

et al. 2013

2013 1st IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)

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“…Having the ability to sub-divide into independent island operation regimes will be a vital function for reconfigurable and flexible power delivery within Smart Grids [5]. Such functionality will also be extremely useful for having reconfigurable power buses and/or power islands of variable levels (3.3V, 5V, 12V, 18V, etc) based on specific real-time power requirements.…”

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Reconfigurable power management using novel monolithically integrated CMOS-on-PV switch

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Imani

Lavrovа

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC)

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This paper presents a novel reconfigurable power management architecture for PV modules. This architecture allows for operation or isolation (islanding) of individual or groups of cells. Flexible Voc and Isc combinations may be achieved with switching speeds up to 1MHz. Multiple advantages and functionalities can be achieved, such as lower power losses if one cell is shaded or degrading, variable optimized maximum power point tracking, integrated monitoring and communication from PV modules, longer lifetime and others. In order to properly understand the benefits of cell-level switching, bypassing and MPPT, a simulation framework was developed using NGSPICE and Octave which allows component-level simulation of PV modules.

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“…Moving average, dual moving average and moving median method for deciding the window size for BESS charge/discharge are analysed by Cheng et al . . A detailed study on voltage regulation in DG PV using step voltage regulator is conducted by Shirek et al .…”

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“…Here, the authors pointed out the importance of lead acid battery and concluded that Li-ion batteries have high density making them suitable for large scale applications, but limited by higher cost. Moving average, dual moving average and moving median method for deciding the window size for BESS charge/discharge are analysed by Cheng et al [37]. A detailed study on voltage regulation in DG PV using step voltage regulator is conducted by Shirek et al [38].…”

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Development of battery intervention power supply for solar roof top installations

Valsala¹,

Premkumar²,

Beevi³

2019

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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In India, battery storage and time‐based tariff are yet to be introduced in solar microgrid tied inverters. Here, the authors propose an improved multistage converter topology intended for single phase solar roof top applications with battery storage. It works in six modes depending on solar‐load‐battery‐grid profiles. The whole strategy is implemented in a battery intervention power supply (BIPS) that uses energy storage integrated with the solar generator that helps in smoothing of power, load shifting, load dispatch, and load angle control. Notably, load dispatch decision is arrived based on several independent parameters that take different values at a time. A Boolean equation is derived relating the different parameters so as to arrive at a single decision. This is achieved by a variable entity k‐map. A voltage control is also implemented which is done by load angle control of the inverter current. © 2019 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 38: 570–583, 2019

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Applying battery energy storage to enhance the benefits of photovoltaics

Cited by 28 publications

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Integrating heterogeneous distributed energy resources to manage intermittent power at low cost

Integrating heterogeneous distributed energy resources to manage intermittent power at low cost

Reconfigurable power management using novel monolithically integrated CMOS-on-PV switch

Development of battery intervention power supply for solar roof top installations

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