Battery Energy Storage Systems in the United Kingdom: A Review of Current State-of-the-Art and Future Applications

Mexis, Ioannis; Todeschini, Grazia

doi:10.3390/en13143616

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“…The study does not cluster different ancillary service applications of BESS, instead focuses on the ESS placement, sizing, operation and power quality areas. A study of BESS in the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) was presented in Mexis and Todeschini (2020), which describes the BESS-based projects in the United Kingdom and different BESS technologies. The ancillary services provided by BESS were briefly explained.…”

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A review of battery energy storage systems for ancillary services in distribution grids: Current status, challenges and future directions

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Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are essential for increasing distribution network performance. Appropriate location, size, and operation of BESS can improve overall network performance. The appropriately scaled and installed BESS helps meet peak energy demand, improve the advantages of integrating renewable and distributed energy sources, improve power quality control, and lower the cost of expanding or re-configuring the distribution networks. This paper investigates the feasibility of BESS for providing short-term and long-term ancillary services in power distribution grids by reviewing the developments and limitations in the last decade (2010–2022). The short-term ancillary services are reviewed for voltage support, frequency regulation, and black start. The long-term ancillary services are reviewed for peak shaving, congestion relief, and power smoothing. Reviewing short-term ancillary services provides renewable energy operators and researchers with a vast range of recent BESS-based methodologies for fast response services to distribution grids. Long-term ancillary services will provide the distributed network system operators and researchers with current BESS-based bulk-energy methods to improve network reliability and power quality and maximize revenue from renewable energy generation. The review presents a list of energy storage policies and BESS projects worldwide with a cost-benefit analysis. The challenges for deploying BESS in distribution grids recommended solutions for the implementation challenges, and future research directions are also presented.

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“…Among the potential benefits of incorporating battery energy storage systems (BESS) into electrical power systems are: improvement of the transmission of electrical energy, damping of power oscillations, dynamic voltage stability, short-term power reserve, leveling of the demand profile, reduction of power supply interruptions due to low-frequency load shedding processes, sub synchronous resonance damping, and improvement of power quality [32,33].…”

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“…eling of the demand profile, reduction of power supply interruptions due to low-frequency load shedding processes, sub synchronous resonance damping, and improvement of power quality [32,33].…”

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Analysis of Control Strategies Based on Virtual Inertia for the Improvement of Frequency Stability in an Islanded Grid with Wind Generators and Battery Energy Storage Systems

2021

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Rising levels of non-synchronous generation in power systems are leading to increasing difficulties in primary frequency control. In response, there has been much research effort aimed at providing individual electronic interfaced generators with different frequency response capabilities. There is now a growing research interest in analyzing the interactions among different power system elements that include these features. This paper explores how the implementation of control strategies based on the concept of virtual inertia can help to improve frequency stability. More specifically, the work is focused on islanded systems with high share of wind generation interacting with battery energy storage systems. The paper presents a methodology for modeling a power system with virtual primary frequency control, as an aid to power system planning and operation. The methodology and its implementation are illustrated with a real case study.

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“…On the one hand, multi-megawatt standalone energy storage systems have been implemented during recent years to enhance system stability [7,8]. On the other hand, MMCs have energy stored within their submodules (SMs).…”

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Design Methodology Based on Prebuilt Components for Modular Multilevel Converters with Partial Integration of Energy Storage Systems

2022

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To provide ancillary services in HVDC applications, modular multilevel converters (MMCs) with integration of energy storage systems are a promising solution as they take advantage of the modularity and the controllability of the stored energy. In these solutions, an energy storage system is connected to the DC capacitor of a submodule (SM) to make an energy storage submodule (ES-SM). An MMC with partial integration (MMC-PIES) is an MMC with each arm made of a mix of SMs and ES-SMs. In this paper, we propose a novel design methodology for these converters considering they are built based on existing prebuilt submodules, while design methodologies in the literature consider the SM and ES-SM characteristics to be degrees of freedom. Therefore, the proposed approach is closer to an industrial standpoint and computes the minimum number of ES-SMs to comply with requirements. We also include a new optimization method for the circulating currents needed to balance the energy in the SM and ES-SM capacitors. Design scenarios are presented. The results show that the value of the DC capacitance and the current limitation of the switches highly influence the design, restricting the possible operating points. In addition, half-bridge ES-SMs seem to be a more promising solution than full-bridge ES-SMs, reducing the number of ES-SMs.

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Battery Energy Storage Systems in the United Kingdom: A Review of Current State-of-the-Art and Future Applications

Cited by 45 publications

References 98 publications

A review of battery energy storage systems for ancillary services in distribution grids: Current status, challenges and future directions

A review of battery energy storage systems for ancillary services in distribution grids: Current status, challenges and future directions

Analysis of Control Strategies Based on Virtual Inertia for the Improvement of Frequency Stability in an Islanded Grid with Wind Generators and Battery Energy Storage Systems

Design Methodology Based on Prebuilt Components for Modular Multilevel Converters with Partial Integration of Energy Storage Systems

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