Assessment of utility side cost savings from battery energy storage

Author

Alt, J.T. ; Anderson, M.D. ; Jungst, R.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Missouri Univ., Rolla, MO, USA

Volume

12

Issue

3

fYear

1997

fDate

8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1112

Lastpage

1120

Abstract

A method of determining the dynamic operating cost benefits of energy storage systems for utility applications is presented. The production costing program DYNASTORE is used to analyze economic benefits for “utility B,” an isolated island utility, using heuristic unit commitment algorithms. The unit commitment is done using chronologic load data and a detailed model of the utility characteristics. Several unit commitment scenarios are run for utility B, and the results are presented. Comparisons between various battery energy storage system (BESS) applications, as well as cases with and without battery storage, are shown. Results show that for utility B, a BESS of 300 MW size used for spinning reserve provides the greatest economic benefit

Keywords

battery storage plants; economics; power system analysis computing; 300 MW; DYNASTORE; battery energy storage system; chronologic load data; economic benefits analysis; heuristic unit commitment algorithms; production costing program; spinning reserve; utility characteristics model; utility side cost savings; Batteries; Costing; Costs; Logic programming; Monte Carlo methods; Power generation economics; Production; Random number generation; Spinning; Strontium;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/59.630450

Filename

630450