On-grid batteries for large-scale energy storage: Challenges and opportunities for policy and technology

Faunce, Thomas; Prest, James; Su, Dawei; Hearne, Sean J.; Iacopi, Francesca

doi:10.1557/mre.2018.11

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“…It can also be seen from Figure 1 that BESS represented by the different types of batteries can provide services across all the electricity network whether it is for short duration power supply, transmission/distribution or bulk power management. Recently, Lithium ion batteries have been used also to provide 100 MW bulk power management for the electricity grid in South Australia [34]. Many network operators use BESS to support grid reliability and initiate services to help BESS quantify its value.…”

Section: Energy Storage Classificationmentioning

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On the Role of Regulatory Policy on the Business Case for Energy Storage in Both EU and UK Energy Systems: Barriers and Enablers

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This paper presents a SWOT analysis of the impact of recent EU regulatory changes on the business case for energy storage (ES) using the UK as a case study. ES technologies (such as batteries) are key enablers for increasing the share of renewable energy generation and hence decarbonising the electricity system. As such, recent regulatory changes seek to improve the business case for ES technologies on national networks. These changes include removing double network charging for ES, defining and classifying ES in relevant legislations, and clarifying ES ownership along with facilitating its grid access. However, most of the current regulations treat storage in a similar way to bulk generators without paying attention to the different sizes and types of ES. As a result, storage with higher capacity receives significantly higher payment in the capacity market and can be exempt from paying renewable energy promotion taxes. Despite the recent regulatory changes, ES is defined as a generation device, which is a barrier to a wide range of revenue streams from demand side services. Also, regulators avoid disrupting the current energy market structure by creating an independent asset class for ES. Instead, they are encouraging changes that co-exist with the current market and regulatory structure. Therefore, although some of the reviewed market and regulatory changes for ES in this paper are positive, it can be concluded that these changes are not likely to allow a level playing field for ES that encourage its increase on energy networks.

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On the Role of Regulatory Policy on the Business Case for Energy Storage in Both EU and UK Energy Systems: Barriers and Enablers

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“…The idea of using battery systems in power grids first emerged in the 1980s. Notable examples since the 1980s are the BESS in Berlin, Lausanne, South Korea, Jeju Island, and other small island systems [133][134][135][136][137][138]. The integration of BESS in the power grid helps to solve many problems of the power grid [139][140][141][142][143].…”

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“…As another example, the USA provides a 20% tax credit for energy storage investments that contribute directly to the electricity grid through 2020 [160]. In Germany, nearly every project that contributes to the generation and storage of electricity through renewable energy resources and storage systems is a feed-in tariff project [138,161].…”

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Assessment of Battery Storage Technologies for a Turkish Power Network

Kocer

Cengiz²,

Gezer³

et al. 2019

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Population growth has brought an increase in energy demand and cost that has a meaningful impact on personal and government expenses. In this respect, governments attach importance to investments in renewable energy resources (RER), which are a sustainable and clean energy source. However, the unpredictable characteristics of RER are a major problem for these clean sources and RER need auxiliary assets. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are one of the promising solutions for these issues. Due to the high investment cost of BESS, governments act cautiously about accepting and implementing BESS in their power network. Recently, with the improvement of technology, the cost of BESS has been reduced, and therefore battery technologies have begun to be applied to conventional systems. In this study, first, we will review and discuss the current globally state-of-the-art BESS and their applications. Later, attention will be turned to a country-specific study for Turkey.

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“…Of course, some of the batteries are at research phase with much more advantages. With the vast information of some current installations of 'big batteries' (such as battery built by Tesla in Australia [60]), [20] discussed on battery energy storage systems (BESS) with well explanation of lithium-ion batteries as a better storage option against leadacid batteries. Also limitations of lithium-ion batteries, how its lifetime gets down and safety methods are expressed in brief along with large scale introduction of storage systems and related policies which can help to tackle with such problems are expressed.…”

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“…Where [20] explain benefits of using lithium-ion batteries on small as well as large scale, a new idea of 'artificial photosynthesis' for energy is proposed in [21], this method presents an approach by which energy is produced and in addition it supports some biological processes for example making food and more. As discussed in section IV (B), the size and modelling of battery is also a big challenge to be solved.…”

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A comprehensive review on integrating renewable energy sources into smart grid : Challenges and Solutions

Sarda¹,

Pandya²

2019

IJET

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Smart grid is considered as future grid having numbers of advantages, not only for owners but customers also. One of the advantages of this future grid is, it is more reliable and environment-friendly grid as it helps to reduce greenhouse gases emission by integrating renewable energy sources with it. Renewable integration brings lots of benefits but before that numbers of challenges are needed to be solved and hence large-scale renewable penetration is considered as one of the biggest challenges to future smart grid. Researches are going on to deal with these hurdles and to make this integration obstacle-free. This paper presents a literature survey on these challenges and their possible solutions to give a brief view on current research scenario on this topic.

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On-grid batteries for large-scale energy storage: Challenges and opportunities for policy and technology

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Cited by 51 publications

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On the Role of Regulatory Policy on the Business Case for Energy Storage in Both EU and UK Energy Systems: Barriers and Enablers

On the Role of Regulatory Policy on the Business Case for Energy Storage in Both EU and UK Energy Systems: Barriers and Enablers

Assessment of Battery Storage Technologies for a Turkish Power Network

A comprehensive review on integrating renewable energy sources into smart grid : Challenges and Solutions

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