Toward a Realistic Performance Analysis of Storage Systems in Smart Grids

Solar Power Shaping: An Analytical Approach

“…1 (Please see [11] for the details). Solar power is used to serve the target output power directly as much as possible (i.e., it departs the system without going through the storage).…”

“…We adopt the performance bound formulation from our earlier work in [11]. We have shown in that work that the system model in Fig.…”

“…This simple model leads to a loss of power formulation given in Theorem 1 in [11], which we use in the following corollary for solar power shaping (Please refer to the appendix for the proof):…”

“…The existing analytical methods [11], [26], [27], [28] are more efficient than repeated simulations, but have two drawbacks. First, they are based on strong assumptions, throwing into question the validity of the obtained results.…”

“…We have used this analytical model, along with a unified analytical ESS model from our prior work [11], to accurately estimate loss of power performance and optimally size an ESS. Our key contributions are: 1) We provide a new analytical model for solar power shaping which characterizes both the short-term and longterm variations in daily solar power.…”