ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE

- ABHISHEK SAINI
EE 3rd YEAR
ID- 180302
 BACKGROUND
 When there is more supply than demand, such as during the night when low-cost
power plants continue to operate, the excess electricity generation can be used to
power storage devices.

 When demand is greater than supply, storage facilities can discharge their stored
energy to the grid.

 Energy storage is also valued for its rapid response – most storage technologies can
begin discharging power to the grid very quickly, while fossil fuel sources tend to
take longer to ramp up. This rapid response is important for ensuring stability of the
grid when unexpected increases in demand occur.
 DIFFERENT ENERGY STORAGE
TECHNOLOGIES
1. BATTERIES
2. PUMPED HYDRAULIC STORAGE (PHS)
3. FLYWHEELS
4. THERMAL STORAGE
5. COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE (CAES)
BATTERIES
 PUMPED HYDRAULIC STORAGE
• Pumped hydroelectric storage offers a
way to store energy at the grid’s
transmission stage, by storing excess
generation for later use.
• Many hydroelectric power plants
include two reservoirs at different
elevations. These plants store energy
by pumping water into the upper
reservoir when supply exceeds
demand.
FLYWHEELS
• Flywheels can provide a variety of benefits to
the grid at either the transmission or
distribution level, by storing electricity in the
form of a spinning mass.
• The device is shaped liked a cylinder and
contains a large rotor inside a vacuum. When
the flywheel draws power from the grid, the
rotor accelerates to very high speeds, storing
the electricity as rotational energy.
• To discharge the stored energy, the rotor
switches to generation mode, slows down, and
runs on inertial energy, thus returning
electricity to the grid.
 THERMAL STORAGE
• Thermal storage is used for electricity
generation by using power from the
sun, even when the sun is not shining.
Concentrating solar plants can capture
heat from the sun and store the energy
in water, molten salts, or other fluids.
This stored energy is later used to
generate electricity, enabling the use of
solar energy even after sunset.
 COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE
• CAES systems compress air using
electricity during off-peak times, and
then store the air in underground
caverns.
• During times of peak demand, the air is
drawn from storage and fired with
natural gas in a combustion turbine to
generate electricity.
• This method uses only a third of the
natural gas used in conventional
methods. Because CAES plants require
some sort of underground reservoir,
they are limited by their locations.
SUCCESS STORIES