This paper describes optimal scheduling of largescale price-maker energy storage and revenue maximization for storage owners. With the penetration of storage eminent, the sizing and scheduling of the storage system must be studied to fully benefit from this enabling technology. Energy storage systems are attractive for providing various services to the electrical grid. Energy arbitrage, being one of them, enables electricity demand to be temporally decoupled from generation. While small-scale storage systems should be considered as price-taker, large-scale aggregated storage can affect the price by increasing and decreasing the required power on the generation side. Purchasing and selling power at the spot price can create a revenue based on the power transferred and the difference in price between two periods. The paper derives a dispatch schedule based on the current load and the forecasted average demand to maximize the storage owner's revenue and discusses the effect of size on price making mechanisms.Index Terms-Energy Arbitrage, Energy Storage Systems, Price-maker.
I. NOMENCLATURE, , Quadratic fuel cost function coefficients ESS Energy Storage Systems Linear ESS cost function coefficient LMP Localized Marginal Prices Demand power at period t Clearing price at period t Power generated at period t Power provided by the ESS at period t ROI Return-On-Investment SO System Operators SoC State-of-Charge II. INTRODUCTIONnergy Storage Systems (ESSs) will inevitably have a large impact on the electrical infrastructure whether is it to support non-dispatchable resources or to reduce the overall cost of energy. The current state of operation of the electrical grid in the US requires real-time balancing of the production and consumption of electricity. This characteristic of the grid creates challenges in the daily operation and increases the overall cost of electricity. ESSs, whether it is centralized or distributed, can allow the demand to be decoupled from the generation regarding instantaneous balancing requirements. Commonly known as energy arbitrage, temporal energy shifting can provide either peak-shaving or load-leveling capabilities dependent on the scale and objective of the system. Additionally, ESSs can provide a number of benefits such as different ancillary services or renewable integration support. The authors in [1] detail the various applications of ESSs both at the transmission and distribution level. One reason why ESS have not yet been largely introduced is the high capital cost of some storage technologies [2]. Thus, it becomes important to study various options for daily operation of ESSs and the revenue streams it creates, which may results in grid benefits and attractive return-on-investment to energy storage.In this paper, we discuss the scheduling of energy storage systems to reduce the global cost of energy and provide a revenue for storage-owners through energy arbitrage. Furthermore, large-scale ESSs is considered in this paper as price-maker. We study the dispatch and size of storage to max...