Analysis of cycling within a PV sourced battery energy storage system

With continued demand for “smart” technologies, implementation of hardware such as batteries and renewable energy sources (i.e. solar panels) has become a huge economic undertaking. In order to better utilize these resources and thus maximize their lifetimes, control schemes looking to both maximize the economic/financial gains while also preventing over usage have become even more important. Past works from the authors examined an optimization without placing limits on cycling. Continuing from a software perspective, this work aims to place limits on the battery dispatch specifically relating to the cycling of the storage. The goal is to study dispatches for the battery and grid to see what changes occur while increasing the allowable number of cycles. Work discussed here will eventually be applied within the alternative source lab setup within Drexel´s Center for Electric Power Engineering (CEPE).