The concept of energy storage
What is energy storage?
Energy storage mainly refers to the storage of electrical energy. Energy storage is also a term used in petroleum reservoirs to represent the ability of a reservoir to store hydrocarbons. Energy storage itself is not an emerging technology, but from an industrial perspective it is just emerging and is in its infancy.
So far, China has not reached the level where energy storage is viewed as a separate industry and supported by policies similar to those of the United States and Japan, especially in the absence of a mechanism to pay for energy storage.
What is photovoltaic?
Photovoltaic (Photovoltaic): short for solar power system, is a new type of power generation system that uses the photovoltaic effect of solar cell semiconductor materials to directly convert solar radiation into electricity, with independent operation and grid-connected operation.
At the same time, solar photovoltaic power system classification, one is centralized, such as large northwest ground photovoltaic power generation system; one is distributed (to > 6MW as the boundary), such as industrial and commercial enterprises plant roof photovoltaic power generation system, residential roof photovoltaic power generation system.
What is a photovoltaic system?
Photovoltaic power generation system can be divided into grid-connected photovoltaic power generation system and stand-alone photovoltaic power generation system according to whether it is grid-connected or not. Grid-connected photovoltaic power generation system mainly refers to the photovoltaic system that is connected to the grid and receives grid dispatch, such as various centralized or distributed photovoltaic power plants. Stand-alone photovoltaic power generation system mainly refers to a variety of independent of the grid operation of photovoltaic power generation systems, such as solar street lights, rural household photovoltaic power supply, etc. collectively referred to as photovoltaic systems.
What is photovoltaic + energy storage?
The combination of photovoltaic and battery as an energy storage device is photovoltaic + energy storage.
The working mode of photovoltaic energy storage system
Photovoltaic power generation has the characteristics of high output level in the short period of time at noon, low output level in other periods and daytime output, no output at night, energy storage technology has the ability to achieve the spatial and temporal shifting characteristics of electricity, for photovoltaic power plants to configure energy storage room to transfer the midday output of photovoltaic to other periods, to reduce the power plant output spikes, reduce abandoned light.
In the working process of battery storage system, the principle of minimizing the number of times of charging and discharging of energy storage system is to extend the service life of energy storage system. During the peak hours of photovoltaic power generation, the battery storage system is controlled to be charged and the power output of the photovoltaic power plant is cut to the peak. After the peak hours of PV power generation, the battery storage system is controlled to discharge. The discharge control of the energy storage system can help smooth the volatility of PV power output and assist system peak regulation to maximize the role of energy storage. According to the different roles of energy storage discharge can be divided into three working modes of energy storage system, which are peak shaving, peak shaving + suppression and peak shaving + transfer style
Working mode one: peak shaving
During the peak hours of PV power plant, the battery storage system is charged with the application goal of peak shaving, and after the peak hours of PV power, and during the daytime hours of PV power, the battery storage system is amplified and discharged to the lower limit of the SOE range of the battery storage system, and then the storage system stops working to ensure that the working time of the storage system is within the power generation time of the PV power plant, which does not additionally increase the working time of the PV power plant. The working time of the power station is not increased, which reduces the impact on the working arrangement of the PV power station due to the configuration of the energy storage system.
Working mode two: peak shaving + smoothing
During the peak hours of PV power plants, the charging of battery storage system is controlled with the application goal of peak shaving. The power fluctuation of large-scale PV power plant can be divided into two categories, one is the slow change of PV power plant output, such as the periodic change of PV power plant output caused by day and night alternation; the other is the sudden change of PV power plant output, such as the sudden drop of PV power plant output caused by floating cloud shading. The first round of changes is large but slow; the second type of changes is unpredictable and sudden, and the power output is reduced from full power to less than 30% of the rated value in 1~2s when it is serious. After the peak period of PV power output, to smooth the process of day and night alternation, PV power plant power drop fluctuations as the goal of controlling the energy storage system discharge, discharge to the lower limit of the SOE working range of the battery storage system, if it has entered the night, PV power plant power reduced to 0, the SOE of the energy storage system is still greater than 0.2, control the energy storage system to the rated power constant power discharge to SOE will be to 0.2, and then control energy storage system to stop working.
Working mode three: peak shaving + transfer
In the peak hours of the PV power plant, the battery storage system is charged with the application goal of peak shaving. The peak hours of PV power plant are from 8:30 to 18:30, and the evening peak of the load occurs between 18:00 and 22:00, during which the PV power plant has basically no power, and the battery storage system can be discharged to assist the system in peak regulation by controlling the battery storage system. The system SOE working range lower limit value, then the energy storage system stop working.
