Large scale penetration of renewable energies such as wind and solar into the electric grid is complicated by their intermittency. Energy storage systems can mitigate these fluctuations by storing off-peak energy for use at peak-demand times. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is one of the most promising storage technologies due to the large amount of energy that can be stored at an economic...

Abstract Power generation around the world is changing dramatically as a consequence of demand to lower greenhouse gas releases and present mix power supplies. Energy storage technology considered be fundamental address these challenges has great potential. This paper presents current development feasibilities compressed air energy (CAES) provides implications for upcoming advancement. The intr...

Wind power is one of the fastest growing renewable sources of generation in the U.S. and many other countries. As wind-generated electricity continues to grow, electric utilities increasingly grapple with the challenges of connecting that power to the grid although maintaining system security. It is difficult to predict and control the output of wind generation because of wind intermittency and...

As an important solution to issues regarding peak load and renewable energy resources on grids, large-scale compressed air energy storage (CAES) power generation technology has recently become a popular research topic in the area of large-scale industrial energy storage. At present, the combination of high-expansion ratio turbines with advanced gas turbine technology is an important breakthroug...

This paper describes design options and comparative results of new compressed air energy storage (CAES) technologies for electric utility applications. Results are based on a CAES technical scoping study for energy storage applications in the California grid. The results show that CAES allows less expensive night-time electric energy to be effectively stored and redelivered to the grid to repla...

So far, solar energy has been viewed as only a minor contributor in the energy mixture of the US due to cost and intermittency constraints. However, recent drastic cost reductions in the production of photovoltaics (PV) pave the way for enabling this technology to become cost competitive with fossil fuel energy generation. We show that with the right incentives, cost competitiveness with grid p...

In this work, we examine the potential advantages of co-locating wind and energy storage to increase transmission utilization and decrease transmission costs. Co-location of wind and storage decreases transmission requirements, but also decreases the economic value of energy storage compared to locating energy storage at the load. This represents a tradeoff which we examine to estimate the tran...

Due to development of the demand increasing of energy around the world and the decline of traditional energy sources in electricity generation the development orientation of power generation has been toward renewable energies. The use of these unfailing and renewable resources requires study substrates and new infrastructure in the transmission and distribution networks. Due to the power instab...