Expected community benefits of energy storage power stations

What is community energy storage?

Community energy storage (CES) is emerging as another form of decentralized solution in the changing energy landscape to confront with technoeconomic, environmental, and societal challenges of the present energy systems. Based on current developments, the two dominant options for CES, namely, local and virtual can be identified.

What is Community Energy Storage (CES)?

Community energy storage (CES) is one of the recent advanced smart grid technologies that provide distribution grids with lots of benefits in terms of stability, reliability, quality, and control. As it benefits both customers and utilities, this technology has become a crucial element of recent microgrids.

How a residential community can use energy management system?

Since the main objective of the proposed energy management system is minimizing total cost of a residential community, energy storages may be charged during some periods through electricity network. In other words, residential community is programmed to purchase electricity from network during the off-peak period even for charging its batteries.

What are the different types of Community Energy Storage (CES)?

Community energy storage main structure. Generally, CES such as any battery ESS has three modes of operation: discharge, standby, and charge. According to the four-quadrant inverter capability, CES discharge can be fully active power, active/reactive (inductive), and active/reactive (capacitive).

Does energy management algorithm work in residential communities?

The proposed energy management algorithm is tested on two residential communities, and the results are shown for both thermal part and electrical part of residential community, which are illustrated in Figs 11.8–11.11.

What happens if internal energy resources cannot supply electrical demand?

If internal energy resources cannot supply electrical demand of residential community No. 2, extra power is bought from network or another residential community. Furthermore, surplus power can be sold to electricity network in order to increase profit, so electricity is sold to network between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m.