Battery energy-storage systems

perhaps most, of recent (since 1980), utility-scale BESSs are presented in Table 10.1. For each BESS, details are given of the location, rated capacity, principle applications, and date of installation. The more familiar systems, i.e., those for which descriptive information is reasonably available, are discussed below. In recent years, the lead-acid battery, energy-storage, and related industries have often been involved in acquisitions and other corporate structure changes such that name changes have taken place. The following discussion uses names that were appropriate when the BESSs came to public attention. 

Hammermuehle is a small distributor of electric energy with a single customer that accounts for about 70% of its total load. The company purchases over 99% of its energy from a bulk power supplier and produces the remaining 1% via hydroelectric generation. The 400-kW, 400-kWh BESS at Hammermuehle has been used for peak shaving and the attendant reduction in demand charges. After 20 years of service (from 1980), this BESS was shut down in 2000 when the battery reached the end of its service life. The battery was not replaced and 

BESS Location System capacity Applications Date  

BEWAG AG Berlin, Germany 17 MW, 14MWh Frequency control Spinning reserve 1986  

Kansai Power Co. Tatsumi, Japan 1 MW, 4MWh Multipurpose demonstration 1986  

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BATTERY ENERGY-STORAGE SYSTEMS FOR POWER-SUPPLY NETWORKS... 

Table 10.2. Costs of battery energy-storage systems ...

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S. Euruta, NEDO s Research and Development on Battery Energy Storage System, Utility Battery Group Meeting, Valley Forge, Pa., Nov. 1992. 

T. Hirabayashi, S. Furuta, and H. Satoh, Status of the Moonlight Project on Advanced Battery Energy Storage System, Proc. 26th lECEC, Boston, Mass., 1991, vol. 6, pp. 88-93. 

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