Title :
The role of electricity storage and pump storage with adjustable speed machines
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Pump storage is a mature technology that has been used to store electricity on the bulk power grid for many years. The traditional use of pump storage has been to store electricity by pumping water to an upper reservoir, with low cost base-load energy during early morning hours, and generating during peak load hours during the work day. This form of arbitrage has provided the economic basis for pump storage projects. In addition conventional pump storage units can provide frequency regulation and load following in the generation mode.
Keywords :
AC machines; power generation economics; power grids; pumped-storage power stations; adjustable speed machines; bulk power grid; electricity storage; frequency regulation; generation mode; load following; low cost base-load energy; pump storage unit projects; pumping water; Carbon; Economics; Electricity; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Power systems; Pumps; Rotors;
Conference_Titel :
Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1000-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1944-9925
DOI :
10.1109/PES.2011.6039600
