Technical review of energy storage technologies when integrated with intermittent renewable energy

Author

Alamri, B.R. ; Alamri, A.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Technol., Makkah Coll. of Technol., Saudi Arabia

fYear

2009

fDate

6-7 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind power, solar power and wave power are highly variable output. Theses energy sources are most of the time not load following. Consequently, renewable energy has limited contribution in power generation and it is difficult to be controlled. It is often stated that, this problem of intermittent renewable can be solved by integration with energy storage. This paper presents an up-to-date technical review for different energy storage systems. It explains the main working principle of each storage technology and highlighting the key advantages, disadvantages and main applications when integrated with power systems.

Keywords

electric power generation; energy storage; renewable energy sources; energy storage technologies; intermittent renewable energy; power generation; solar power; wave power; wind power; Costs; Energy storage; Hydrogen storage; Power generation; Power system reliability; Power systems; Renewable energy resources; Reservoirs; Solar power generation; Wind energy generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sustainable Power Generation and Supply, 2009. SUPERGEN '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4934-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERGEN.2009.5348055

Filename

5348055