Power System Energy Storage Technologies

Power System Energy Storage Technologies provides a comprehensive analysis of the various technologies used to store electrical energy on both a small and large scale. Although expensive to implement, energy storage plants can offer significant benefits for the generation, distribution and use of electrical power. This is particularly important in renewable energy, which is intermittent in its supply. This book provides coverage of major technologies, such as sections on Pumped Storage Hydropower, Compressed-Air Energy Storage, Large Scale Batteries and Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage, each of which is presented with discussions of their operation, performance, efficiency and the costs associated with implementation and management.

• Provides a description and analysis of various storage technologies, such as Pumped Storage Hydropower, Compressed-Air Energy Storage, Large Scale Batteries and Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
• Breaks down each storage type and analyzes their operation, performance, efficiency and costs
• Considers how each energy storage plant benefits the generation distribution and use of electric power

Power generation planners, electrical engineers, students and lecturers of Electrical Engineering and Energy, researchers, academics and the technical community involved in the development and implementation of power generation technologies, and power related engineering disciplines

1. Types of Energy Storage
   2. Pumped Storage Hydropower 
   Pumped Storage technology
   Variable-Speed Operation
   Pumped Storage Sites
   Performance
   Costs
   3. Compressed-Air Energy Storage
   Compressed-Air Energy Storage Principle
   Compressed-Air Storage facilities
   Turbine technology and CAES Cycles
   Costs
   4.Large-Scale Batteries
   Battery Principle
   Lead-Acid Batteries
   Nickel-Cadmium Batteries
   Lithium Batteries
   Sodium-Sulfur Batteries
   Flow Batteries
   Costs
   5. Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
   Costs
   6. Flywheels
   Flywheel Principle
   Flywheel Performance Characteristics
   Costs
   7. Capacitors
   Energy Storage Capacitor Principles
   Performance Characteristics
   Applications
   Costs
   8. Hydrogen Energy Storage
   Hydrogen Energy Essentials
   Performance Characteristics
   Costs