Pure electric energy storage system

Electrical Energy Storage, EES, is one of the key technologies in the areas covered by the IEC. EES techniques have shown unique capabilities in coping with some critical characteristics of electricity, for example hourly variations in demand and price.

Energy storage systems allow energy consumption to be separated in time from the production of energy, whether it be electrical or thermal energy. The storing of electricity typically occurs in chemical (e.g., lead acid batteries or lithium-ion batteries, to name just two of the best known) or mechanical means (e.g., pumped hydro storage).

Abstract: In order to mitigate the power density shortage of current energy storage systems (ESSs) in pure electric vehicles (PEVs or EVs), a hybrid ESS (HESS), which consists of a battery and a supercapacitor, is considered in this research. Due to the use of the two ESSs, an energy management should be carried out for the HESS.

Batteries and the BMS are replaced by the “Energy Storage Medium”, to represent any storage technologies including the necessary energy conversion subsystem. The control hierarchy can be further generalized to include other storage systems or devices connected to the grid, illustrated in Figure 3-19.

However, such storage systems become vi-able and economically reasonable only if the grids have to carry and distribute large amounts of vol-atile electricity from REs. The fi rst demonstration and pilot plants are currently under construction (e.g. in Europe).

The integrated storage system is designed to cover 100 % of the demand with the energy generated by the PV system during the summer. During the rest of the year a little additional energy has to be purchased from the grid.