Energy storage has been a repetitive problem; the energy supply depends on variable climatic conditions, and mass renewables generation has the question of meeting supply and demand. Batteries can store energy for rainy weather, but are they possible?
FREMONT, CA: Reliance on variable resources has created an excess of economic and volatility issues. In addition, the problems such as non-dispatchable renewable sources have made it challenging to achieve a 100 percent renewable grid. Nevertheless, energy storage and battery technology are improving with the increased feasibility of renewable mass integration.
Batteries Reduce Renewable Integration Challenges:
Traditional power systems have addressed load fluctuations through peaker plants’ capacities. The Storage provides the renewables the functionality to decrease congestion and fluctuation concerns in the resource. Batteries can execute the same purpose for distributed and residential renewables on a small scale.
With batteries, the renewable generation capabilities can store energy generated in excess during the availability of resources and supply it after that during deficits to the grid. The storms also allow operators to control power dispatch to the grid to avoid congestion issues.
Batteries Reduce Renewable Volatility:
The renewable generation facilities rely upon the weather to generate power, and the constantly changing weather patterns create instability in the grid. Batteries are the solution; they permit power generation in favorable conditions and automatically dispatch it as available resources fluctuate. Implementing batteries in the systems will allow for time-shifting of the production, and utilization will address the concerns of frequent fluctuations in scenarios such as “duck-curve.”
Batteries have reduced congestion and volatility from erratic weather patterns and have enhanced the stability of renewable energy, making the renewable grid 100 percent efficient.
Batteries and Storage cannot be managed yet:
Though battery and storage technologies have managed the two critical problems, it isn’t easy to implement. There exist important hurdles that the industry must jump over to make mass integration feasible. The factors include:
• Cost optimization.
• Supply infrastructure that needs to be upgraded.
• Planning and modeling of the process adaptive to that particular region.
• Dispatch scheduling.
As the generation from renewable energy progress towards a mature state, the Storage and batteries have gone over shifts that have resulted in growth and the ability to address drawbacks. Despite this, large-scale thermal and hydro Storage have been challenging to scale, and batteries are not yet made viable.
