Abstract
Electrical energy storage is one option for making the environmental impact of households’ energy usage smaller. A storage could improve the profitability of household level electricity production and could also decrease the load in the electricity networks. So far, poor profitability has been the greatest barrier to the use of storages. The battery systems prices have been high and the benefits difficult to predict. The benefit of the use of storage and the factors affecting to the benefits are studied in this paper. For this purpose, a simulator has been designed for modelling the energy storage as part of the household’s electricity grid. The control of the storage significantly affects to the amount of benefits. The developed control method of the simulator aims to maximize the benefits. The simulations took into account the variables that are not accurately known when the storage is controlled. For these variables, such as e.g. future consumption, various forecasts were formed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 607-617 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | International Review of Electrical Engineering: IREE |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Feb 2017 |
Publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
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