Community and Residential Energy Storage in Smart Grids

Abstract

This paper reviews the most important energy storage systems for applications in residential environments. Normally, these systems are associated with renewable energy in order to achieve specific characteristics, although new possibilities and challenges are implemented over them in any residential places. Nowadays, the development of such kind of energy systems represents a technical challenge in the market. In residential and small building applications, energy storage solutions supply the demanded power by consumers of residential areas or small stand-alone buildings placed on isolated zones. In context of smart grids, energy storage management systems are not only concerned about energy storage, also inefficiency optimization and power consume. This work presents INTELEM, a new smart storage architecture which integrates the energy storage and the intelligent energy management in communities and in residential applications.

On the integration of the energy storage in smart grids: Technologies and applications

“…Various efforts have been performed to analyze the role of storage systems in the future development of smart grids and their interconnection in building, community, and city scale. [19][20][21][22] The smart grids' implementation, the zero energy and carbon communities' targets, the distributed energy generation, and the increased penetration of renewables are mainly influenced by the successful integration of energy storage systems. 23 The EES in power systems and utilities infrastructure stability and quality is also an important aspect and focus of research from various researchers.…”