Tag Archives: Energy storage
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An Untold Success Story
As battery energy storage proliferates, fires and safety incidents remain rare. Research and collaboration explain why. By Chris Warren It’s not hyperbole to say that April 19, 2019, marked a sharp turn in how North American utilities, manufacturers, safety code and standards developers, and other stakeholders view battery energy storage system (BESS) safety. It was […]
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Solar Plus Storage Cost Assessment and Design Considerations: Executive Summary
The is an executive summary of a study that evaluated the costs and market applications for solar-plus-storage systems. It examines project design considerations such as sizing systems and configuring them to provide grid services. It provides estimates for turnkey installed costs, maintenance costs, and decommissioning costs.
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Guidance on Integrating Energy Storage into Distribution Planning: Using Energy as a Non-Wires Alternative for Distribution Capacity
Deployment of energy storage can potentially enable utilities to defer or avoid the need for traditional grid upgrades, but it can be challenging to evaluate storage as part of distribution planning. This report provides guidance for distribution planners on how to effectively evaluate energy storage to mitigate system overloads or cases where grid components have […]
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Strategic Intelligence Update: Energy Storage & Distributed Generation, July 2018
This newsletter informs the electric power industry about developments with technology, markets, regulatory matters, and demonstrations in the energy storage and distributed generation fields.
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Energy Storage Demonstration Project Final Report: An EPRI Energy Storage Demonstration Report
This research assessed control systems and modeled economics at four utility-scale energy storage sites. At a fifth site, researchers installed an energy storage system; modeled the feeder to align commissioning with system capabilities, and documented lessons from the installation.
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Energy Storage Landscape
This report is an overview of energy storage technologies, applications, cost and installation estimates, and regulations and policies to encourage deployment.
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Energy Storage Cost Summary for Utility Planning: Executive Summary
This report projects installed costs for various energy storage systems and technologies assuming deployment in 2017.
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Strategic Intelligence Update: Energy Storage & Distributed Generation
This newsletter is intended to keep utilities informed on technological advances, markets, regulatory news, and demonstration developments in energy storage and distributed generation. It is the third of four issues planned for 2016.
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Program on Technology Innovation: Assessment of Flow Battery Technologies for Stationary Applications
This paper examines the state of the technology of flow batteries—electrochemical devices that store electrical energy in liquid electrolytes that are pumped through a stationary stack. The research draws on requests to more than 20 commercial flow battery companies for information on their products, chemistry, and strategy to overcome limitations. Researchers also conducted phone interviews […]
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Energy Storage Valuation Tool (ESVT) Version 4.0
EPRI’s Energy Storage Valuation Tool 4.0 simulates the cost-effectiveness of energy storage systems as they provide a combination of grid services.
