Maintaining Balance: The Increasing Role of Energy Storage for Renewable Integration

Paul Denholm; Derek Stenclik; Babu Chalamala

doi:10.1109/MPE.2017.2729098

Maintaining Balance: The Increasing Role of Energy Storage for Renewable Integration

Paul Denholm, Derek Stenclik, Babu Chalamala

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Abstract

For nearly a century, global power systems have focused on three key functions: Generating, transmitting, and distributing electricity as a real-time commodity. Physics requires that electricity generation always be in real-time balance with load-despite variability in load on time scales ranging from subsecond disturbances to multiyear trends. With the increasing role of variable generation from wind and solar, the retirement of fossil-fuel-based generation, and a changing consumer demand profile, grid operators are using new methods to maintain this balance.

Original language	American English
Article number	8070540
Pages (from-to)	31-39
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
Volume	15
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MPE.2017.2729098 https://doi.org/10.1109/MPE.2017.2729098
State	Published - 1 Nov 2017

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Keywords

frequency control
market research
power system economics
power system planning
power system reliability
real-time systems
renewable energy sources

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