Battery storage plant within large load centres

Author

Lachs, W.R. ; Sutanto, D.

Author_Institution

New South Wales Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

Volume

7

Issue

2

fYear

1992

fDate

5/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

762

Lastpage

767

Abstract

As a long-term strategy, the installation of numbers of battery storage plants (BSPs) in urban centers would significantly raise power system levels of reliability and security. The first large commercial application of a BSP, the Bewag 8.5/17 MW installation, has been in successful operation since January 1987. A brief history of the Bewag development is provided. There are three important advantages of BSP: there are no environmental difficulties to placing them within urban areas; there is an instantly accessible output of MW and MVAr; and commercial consumers requiring a higher reliability will meet much of the capital cost. Utilities would need to offer tariff incentives to gain an operational control of the BSP. The ability for extremely fast output changes of MW and MVAr outputs, coupled with their energy storage, would make BSPs useful for normal and emergency operation as well as speeding up system restoration

Keywords

battery storage plants; economics; energy storage; load management; power system control; power system protection; power system restoration; reliability; secondary cells; 17 MW; 8.5 MW; Germany; battery storage plants; capital cost; energy storage; load management; power system; reliability; restoration; security; tariff; Batteries; Costs; Power generation; Power industry; Power system reliability; Power system restoration; Power system security; Retirement; Secure storage; Senior members;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/59.141783

Filename

141783