The role of large scale storage in a GB low carbon energy future: Issues and policy challenges

Economic and environmental impact of lead-acid batteries in grid-connected domestic PV systems

“…At the national transmission system level, large-scale 36 storage could help system balancing with high penetrations of wind power [1]. At 37 the level of the local distribution network, intelligent management of battery 38 charging in electric vehicles could help prolong the use of existing network 39 assets, avoiding unnecessary costs [2].…”

Developing pathways for energy storage in the UK using a coevolutionary framework

“…We believe this type of qualitative analysis provides a useful complement to the recent quantitative modelling studies that have looked at the value of energy storage to a low-carbon energy system (Grünewald et al, 2011;Strbac et al, 2012a;Strbac et al, 2012b;Wilson et al, 2011). The coevolutionary framework and pathways approach has allowed us to explore storage in its wider system context and to analyse how different storage technologies, as part of a suite of solutions incorporating demand response, interconnection and back-up plant, could contribute to delivering flexibility in a low-carbon energy system.…”

“…In the case of the UK energy system, notable exceptions include an early techno-economic analysis by UMIST for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI, 2004) and more recent work on the role of storage by Grünewald et al (2011) and Wilson et al (2011). One of the few studies to look at the broader regulatory and policy issues is (ERP, 2011).…”

Impact of wind curtailment and storage on the Irish power system 2020 renewable electricity targets: a free open-source electricity system balancing and market (ESBM) model

“…and provide the price curve with an appropriate shape. Similar to [17] a value of 50 was chosen for and 5 for . Table 1 shows the marginal costs that were used.…”

“…The method for dispatching generation and modelling the wholesale electricity market is based on work by Grünewald [17], who developed a model of the GB wholesale electricity market to estimate the commercial viability of electrical energy storage on the GB power system with high penetrations of wind power. A capacity margin is specified such that the total capacity thermal plant (baseload, mid-merit and peaking) exceeds the peak demand by 20%.…”