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Battery Energy Storage in Smart Grid

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2020) | Viewed by 9803

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Francesco Conte

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Department of Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Genoa, 16145 Genova, Italy
Interests: power systems; smart grid; energy storage devices; renewable energy
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Prof. Dr. Stefano Massucco

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DITEN—University of Genova, via all’Opera Pia 11a, 16145 Genova, Italy
Interests: electric energy systems and distributed generation modeling; control and management; power systems analysis and simulation; smart grids; controllable loads and energy storage systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Today, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) are gaining importance in all sectors of power system. They can be used for providing many services at generation level, such as energy arbitrage, contingency service, area control and frequency regulation, and at transmission and distribution levels, for supporting voltage regulation and providing synthetic inertia and oscillation damping. Moreover, BESSs can support the renewable integration since they can allow time shifting, grid frequency regulation services and fluctuation suppression.
It is therefore clear that BESSs will play a crucial role in the development of smart grids.  With this Special Issue, we are looking for works that proposes and eventually validate, via real-time/real field experiments or co-simulation/hardware-in-the-loop simulations, strategy of management and control of BESSs providing efficient and multi-functional services to the grid, considering all possible future and current scenarios.

Dr. Francesco Conte
Prof. Dr. Stefano Massucco
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Regulation services from BESS
  • Integrated PV-BESS systems
  • Integrated Wind-BESS systems
  • Multi-functional systems with BESS
  • Voltage support from BESS
  • BESS in smart homes
  • BESS in smart cities

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Uncertainty Reduction on Flexibility Services Provision from DER by Resorting to DSO Storage Devices
by Gianni Celli, Marco Galici, Fabrizio Pilo, Simona Ruggeri and Gian Giuseppe Soma
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(8), 3395; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11083395 - 10 Apr 2021
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Current trends in electrification of the final energy consumption and towards a massive electricity production from renewables are leading a revolution in the electric distribution system. Indeed, the traditional “fit & forget” planning approach used by Distributors would entail a huge amount of [...] Read more.
Current trends in electrification of the final energy consumption and towards a massive electricity production from renewables are leading a revolution in the electric distribution system. Indeed, the traditional “fit & forget” planning approach used by Distributors would entail a huge amount of network investment. Therefore, for making these trends economically sustainable, the concept of Smart Distribution Network has been proposed, based on active management of the system and the exploitation of flexibility services provided by Distributed Energy Resources. However, the uncertainties associated to this innovation are holding its acceptance by utilities. For increasing their confidence, new risk-based planning tools are necessary, able to estimate the residual risk connected with each choice and identify solutions that can gradually lead to a full Smart Distribution Network implementation. Battery energy storage systems, owned and operated by Distributors, represent one of these solutions, since they can support the use of local flexibility services by covering part of the associated uncertainties. The paper presents a robust approach for the optimal exploitation of these flexibility services with a simultaneous optimal allocation of storage devices. For each solution, the residual risk is estimated, making this tool ready for its integration within a risk-based planning procedure. Full article
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Grid-Scale BESS for Ancillary Services Provision: SoC Restoration Strategies
by Giuliano Rancilio, Arianna Rossi, Claudio Di Profio, Martino Alborghetti, Andrea Galliani and Marco Merlo
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(12), 4121; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10124121 - 15 Jun 2020
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The future power system, characterized by lower inertia, reduced programmability and more distributed architecture, will depend on prompt and reliable control systems. Quick ancillary services provided by battery energy storage systems (BESS) could be a resource in order to deliver fast and precise [...] Read more.
The future power system, characterized by lower inertia, reduced programmability and more distributed architecture, will depend on prompt and reliable control systems. Quick ancillary services provided by battery energy storage systems (BESS) could be a resource in order to deliver fast and precise response to frequency events. Degrees of freedom in the design of innovative products traded on ancillary services markets give the asset manager room for developing state-of-charge (SoC) restoration mechanisms. These are necessary to effectively exploit BESS as key resources for electricity balancing. This study compares the main SoC restoration strategies. It aims to define which ones are suitable for guaranteeing the reliability of the provision and the return on the investment. A robust regulatory framework analysis describes the degrees of freedom guaranteed by the main experiences around Europe. In this paper, a BESS model with variable efficiency is used to compare the provision of Frequency Containment Reserve (FCR) with different SoC restoration strategies exploiting one or more degrees of freedom. Here, we show that the degrees of freedom are key to the reliability of provision. Among most diffused mechanisms, dead-band strategies secure the desired consistency, but require large energy flows for SoC management. Thus, BESS life and economics decrease. The strategies based on minimum available energy guarantee assured reliability while being fair with BESS life and operation costs. Full article
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Utilizing Energy Storage for Reliability Solutions in Active Distribution Systems
by Prajjwal Gautam, Prasanna Piya and Rajesh Karki
Appl. Sci. 2019, 9(20), 4392; https://doi.org/10.3390/app9204392 - 17 Oct 2019
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Stochastic failures in a distribution network result in different reliability events, such as voltage sags and momentary and sustained interruptions, causing significant financial losses for many customers. Strategic utilization of energy storage system (ESS) can help mitigate these reliability events. This paper investigates [...] Read more.
Stochastic failures in a distribution network result in different reliability events, such as voltage sags and momentary and sustained interruptions, causing significant financial losses for many customers. Strategic utilization of energy storage system (ESS) can help mitigate these reliability events. This paper investigates the role of ESS toward providing reliability solutions in the context of an active distribution system. In this regard, scenario-based probabilistic modeling of reliability event mitigation with the ESS is presented, which is integrated into the reliability evaluation framework. The proposed approach is efficient in assessing reliability solutions with ESS considering storage technology type, power/energy rating, hardware availability, presence of other distributed energy resources, etc. A range of case studies is conducted to evaluate mitigation of reliability events at a different level of the distribution system. Valuable insights into the efficient utilization of ESS are provided based on findings. Full article
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