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What is Power System Energy Storage Technologies about?

Energy storage plays a vital part in the modern global economy. At a national level, oil and gas are regularly stored by both utilities and governments, while at a smaller scale petrol stations store gasoline and all cars carry a storage tank to provide them with the ability to travel a significant distance between refueling stops. Domestic storage of hot water is also usual in modern homes. Yet when it comes to electrical energy, storage on anything but a small scale in batteries is rare.Part of the reason for this is that storage of electricity, although it can be achieved in a number of ways, is difficult. In most storage technologies the electricity must be converted into some other form of energy before it can be stored. For example, in a battery it is converted into chemical energy, while in a pumped storage hydropower plant the electrical energy is turned into the potential energy contained within an elevated mass of water. Energy conversion makes the storage process complex and the conversion itself is often inefficient. These and other factors help to make an energy storage system costly.In spite of such obstacles, large-scale energy storage plants have been built in many

Author

Paul Breeze

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2014

Language

EN