Energy storage applications offer potential benefits to the transmission and distribution system because of the ability of modern power electronics, and some electro-chemistries, to change from full discharge to full charge, or vice versa, extremely rapidly.
These characteristics enable energy storage to be considered as a means of improving transmission grid reliability or increasing effective transmission capacity. At the distribution level, energy storage can be used in substation applications to improve system power factors and economics and can also be used as a reliability enhancement tool and a way to defer capital expansion by accommodating peak load conditions.
Energy storage can also be used to alleviate diurnal or other congestion patters and, in effect, store energy until the transmission system is capable of delivering the energy to the location where it is needed.
Other technical applications of electric energy storage include:
Grid stabilization
Grid frequency support
Grid reserves
Grid voltage support
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These characteristics enable energy storage to be considered as a means of improving transmission grid reliability or increasing effective transmission capacity. At the distribution level, energy storage can be used in substation applications to improve system power factors and economics and can also be used as a reliability enhancement tool and a way to defer capital expansion by accommodating peak load conditions.
Energy storage can also be used to alleviate diurnal or other congestion patters and, in effect, store energy until the transmission system is capable of delivering the energy to the location where it is needed.
Other technical applications of electric energy storage include:
Grid stabilization
Grid frequency support
Grid reserves
Grid voltage support
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