ES Project
Description of the issue
- The Institute quickly learned that it would need to put a large amount of time and effort into understanding the market and visiting different manufacturers to understand their products. This was the main lesson learnt during the selection and building of the storage system.
- Another lesson learned is that the whole system needs be integrated to work together. The turbines SCADA system along with the storage SCADA and the local utility should be integrated together to have an integrated approach to the entire system.
Recommandations
- The local utility indicated that 1 MW should be a minimum size considered by the Institute for the project to have relevance to the utility and system operator. The Institute also desired a minimum of 1MWh to be able to commit the unit at full capacity in order to demonstrate a significantly relevant capacity input equivalent to a generator between 100 kW and up to 1 MW, depending on the application for a ignificantly relevant period of time.
- Upon reviewing EPRI’s general storage application requirements the Institute noted that a 1 MW/2 MWh storage system would be able to perform most of the typical storage applications.
Project Stage
Energy System Component
Storage Technology