Abstract
In this work, we examine the potential advantages of co-locating wind and energy storage to increase transmission utilization and decrease transmission costs. Co-location of wind and storage decreases transmission requirements, but also decreases the economic value of energy storage compared to locating energy storage at the load. This represents a tradeoff which we examine to estimate the transmission costs required to justify moving storage from load-sited to wind-sited in three different locations in the United States. We examined compressed air energy storage (CAES) in three "wind by wire" scenarios with a variety of transmission and CAES sizes relative to a given amount of wind. In the sites and years evaluated, the optimal amount of transmission ranges from 60% to 100% of the wind farm rating, with the optimal amount of CAES equal to 0-35% of the wind farm rating, depending heavily on wind resource, value of electricity in the local market, and the cost of natural gas.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3149-3158 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Energy Policy |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2009 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/JA-6A2-46122
Keywords
- Energy storage
- Transmission
- Wind