Sustainable Energy Homework - 7

Energy transportation and distribution, storages, and systems integration (PtG)

1. Explain the role of energy storage from the demand and supply side!

2. A hydropower plant has two of the turbines each with 160 MW capacity that can be reversed
and pump the water from the low to the high water reservoir. It is used for seasonal storage,
and the high reservoir has a capacity of 3×109 m3 of water. The hydropower plant runs with a
mean head of approximately H=500 m. Assuming that the efficiency of the turbines is 95%,
Find how many days of stored energy this corresponds to when the electricity consumption is
120 TWh per year.

3. A stand-alone solar PV power plant is designed for a house located on an island. The
electricity is used for a number of the electric appliances (see Table below). The daily solar
radiation flux at the plant site location is Esol = 6.5 kWh/m2 per day. PV modules with a rated
power output PM of 160 W and an efficiency ηM of 16% are to be used in the PV array. Calculate
(i) the daily electricity demand (load), (ii) the battery bank capacity