As renewable energy use expands there will be a need to develop ways to balance its variability. Storage is one of the options. Presently the main emphasis is for systems storing electrical power in advanced batteries (many of them derivatives of parallel developments in the electric vehicle field), as well as via liquid air storage, compressed air storage, super-capacitors and flywheels, and, the leader so far, pumped hydro reservoirs. In addition, new systems are emerging for hydrogen generation and storage, feeding fuel cell power production. Heat (and cold) is also a storage medium and some systems exploit thermal effects as part of wider energy management activity. Some of the more exotic ones even try to use gravity on a large scale. This short book looks at all the options, their potentials and their limits. There are no clear winners, with some being suited to short-term balancing and others to longer-term storage. The eventual mix adopted will be shaped by the pattern of development of other balancing measures, including smart-grid demand management and super-grid imports and exports.


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    Title :

    Energy storage systems


    Contributors:


    Edition :

    Version: 20170701


    Publication date :

    2017


    Size :

    1 Online-Ressource (viii, 17 Seiten)


    Remarks:

    Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Gesehen am 17.07.2017




    Type of media :

    Book


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    621.042
    BKL:    52.57 Energiespeicherung / 53.36 Energiedirektumwandler, elektrische Energiespeicher



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