Assessing the Role of Energy Storage in Multiple Energy Carriers toward Providing Ancillary Services: A Review

Renewable energy power plants and transport heating electrification projects are being deployed to enable the replacement of fossil fuels as primary source. This transition encourages distributed generation but makes grid more weather-dependent, thus reducing its inertia. Simultaneously, electrical network operators face voltage, frequency, stability challenges at distribution level. Networks were not designed manage stochasticity renewable sources or congestion caused by new demands. Such commonly addressed through infrastructure reinforcements. review studies how storage systems with different carriers can provide a collaborative solution involving prosumers ancillary services providers We focused on European urban context; thus, we analyzed sources, batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen fuel cells, thermal storage, electric vehicles. A thorough successful implementations proved that including in one benefits system prosumers, from both technical economic perspectives. propose correlation between individual technologies they based their responses specific requirements. Therefore, address issues together prosumers. Nevertheless, attractive regulatory frameworks business models required motivate use assets support grid. Further work is recommended describe joint operation multiple multicarrier systems, focusing coupling storage. Additionally, affect system’s aging should be studied.