TY - GEN
T1 - Energy storage sizing and location in distribution networks considering overall grid performance
AU - Stecca, Marco
AU - Ramirez-Elizondo, Laura
AU - Soeiro, Thiago Batista
AU - Bauer, Pavol
N1 - Funding Information:
VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This research is partly financed by the project “Research, Demonstration and Commercialisation of DC Microgrid Technologies (RDC2MT)”. The RDC2MT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 734796.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/8/6
Y1 - 2020/8/6
N2 - Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) are promising solutions for mitigating the technical problems created by high penetration of Distributed Generation (DG) in distribution grids. This paper presents a methodology for the ESS sizing and placement within the distribution networks. Those are found through an optimization routine that considers the impact of the use of storage on voltage regulation and system losses. Several scenarios, varying the load and PV panels power, are investigated. In addition, the impact on the energy storage requirements of a basic residential self-consumption scheme is evaluated. The proposed method has demonstrated to be effective in determining the ESS size in the studied scenarios. Furthermore, the results show that the location that requires the lowest ESS rating does not necessarily offer satisfactory performances in terms of losses reduction and voltage control. Also, the paper shows that by encouraging residential users to self-consume the energy produced by the PV panels installed in their house, the grids ESS requirements can be significantly reduced.
AB - Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) are promising solutions for mitigating the technical problems created by high penetration of Distributed Generation (DG) in distribution grids. This paper presents a methodology for the ESS sizing and placement within the distribution networks. Those are found through an optimization routine that considers the impact of the use of storage on voltage regulation and system losses. Several scenarios, varying the load and PV panels power, are investigated. In addition, the impact on the energy storage requirements of a basic residential self-consumption scheme is evaluated. The proposed method has demonstrated to be effective in determining the ESS size in the studied scenarios. Furthermore, the results show that the location that requires the lowest ESS rating does not necessarily offer satisfactory performances in terms of losses reduction and voltage control. Also, the paper shows that by encouraging residential users to self-consume the energy produced by the PV panels installed in their house, the grids ESS requirements can be significantly reduced.
KW - Distribution networks
KW - Distributed power generation
KW - Voltage control
KW - Optimization
KW - Energy storage
KW - n/a OA procedure
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U2 - 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281432
DO - 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281432
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-1-7281-5509-8
T3 - IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
SP - 1
EP - 5
BT - 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020
Y2 - 2 August 2020 through 6 August 2020
ER -
