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6 FAQs about [Socio-economic benefits of energy storage systems]
Why is energy storage important?
Energy storage (ES) represents a flexible option that can bring significant, fundamental economic benefits to various areas in the electric power sector, including reduced investment requirements for generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure as well as reduced system operation and balancing costs.
What are the benefits of energy storage technologies?
Renewable energy integration and decarbonization of world energy systems are made possible by the use of energy storage technologies. As a result, it provides significant benefits with regard to ancillary power services, quality, stability, and supply reliability.
What is energy storage?
Energy storage is one of the emerging technologies which can store energy and deliver it upon meeting the energy demand of the load system. Presently, there are a few notable energy storage devices such as lithium-ion (Li-ion), Lead-acid (PbSO4), flywheel and super capacitor which are commercially available in the market [9, 10].
Does energy storage have an environmental impact?
Several investigations have considered the technical and economic aspects of storage, but there is a lack of information on their environmental impact. The review indicates the absence of knowledge space identification in the area of energy storage, which requires updating and accumulating data.
Do energy storage systems support equity challenges in the power system?
Energy storage systems have been deployed to support grid reliability and renewable resource integration, but there is additional emerging value in considering the connections between energy storage applications and equity challenges in the power system.
How energy storage technology is used in power system studies?
In recent years, energy storage technology is frequently adapted in power system studies especially on microgrid, smart grids and distributed generation [127, 128]. The following technologies would also offer regional control benefits at transformer or feeder levels and other grid services to maintain the stability of grid systems .