Research Article
Investigation of Energy Storage Systems, Its Advantage and Requirement in Various Locations in Australia
Table 1
Applications of different energy storage technologies [
9,
12].
| Energy storage applications |
Pumped hydro |
CAES |
SMES |
Lead-acid battery |
Flow batteries |
Flywheels |
Super capacitors |
Hydrogen/fuel cell |
TES |
| Load levelling | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | | | ✓ | ✓ | Load flowing | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | | | ✓ | ✓ | Peak generation | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | Fast response spinning reserve | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Conventional spinning reserve | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | Emergency backup | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | | | ✓ | ✓ | Uninterruptible power supply | | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | Transient and end use ride through | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Transmission and distribution stabilization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | ✓ | | RE integration | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | RE backup | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | | | | ✓ |
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