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Energy Management in a Smart Grid-integrated Hydrogen-based Storage

Authors:
Diego Arnone
Alessandro Rossi
Massimo Bertoncini
Rosario Proietto
Diana Moneta
Giuseppe Tondi
Carlos García-Santiago

Keywords: energy management system; hydrogen-based storage; integration of renewable energy sources; grid balancing

Abstract:
The integration of plants for the distributed production of electric energy from renewable (especially solar and wind) sources into the electric grid has become an increasingly complex task over the last years because the amount of “green” energy nowadays injected into the grid is sometimes comparable to the energy supplied by traditional thermal plants. This introduces a strong variability, a partial unpredictability and a significant dependency from the location, three of the main features that characterize the energy produced by photovoltaic plants and wind turbines. This paper introduces a high level description of an innovative system that integrates high-capacity hydrogen-based storage into the grid with the aim of contributing to the grid balancing and to the improvement of the power quality. A concrete demonstrator is being designed and will be connected to a properly selected primary substation where most of the power lines connected to the medium voltage bus bar are active because they are connected to many photovoltaic plants and wind turbines.

Pages: 86 to 89

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: April 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-412X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-332-2

Location: Chamonix, France

Dates: from April 20, 2014 to April 24, 2014