Journal
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
Volume 80, Issue -, Pages 603-619Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2017.05.201
Keywords
Energy storage systems; Generation expansion planning; Optimization models for power system planning; Investment decision support; Operational flexibility; Variable renewable energy integration
Funding
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Chilean Council of Scientific and Technological Research [CONICYT/FONDAP/15110019, CONICYT/FONDECYT/1151438]
- EPSRC through the HubNet project [EP/I013636/1]
- EPSRC [EP/I013636/1, EP/N001974/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I013636/1, EP/N001974/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Expansion planning models are often used to support investment decisions in the power sector. Towards the massive insertion of renewable energy sources, expansion planning of energy storage systems (SEP - Storage Expansion Planning) is becoming more popular. However, to date, there is no clear overview of the available SEP models in the literature. To shed light on the existing approaches, this review paper presents a broad classification of SEP, which is used to analyze a database of about 90 publications to identify trends and challenges. The trends we found are that while SEP was born more than four decades ago, only in the last five years increasing research efforts were put into the topic. The planning has evolved from adequacy criteria to broader targets, such as direct costs, mitigation of CO2 emissions, and renewable integration. The modeling of the network, power system, energy storage systems (ESS), and time resolution are becoming more detailed. Uncertainty is often considered and the solution methods are still very diverse. As outstanding challenges, we found that (1) the large diversity of ESS, in contrast to conventional generation technologies, and (2) the complex lifetime and efficiency functions need to be addressed in the models. (3) Only a high temporal and spatial resolution will allow for dimensioning the challenge of integrating renewables and the role of ESS. (4) Although the value of ESS lies beyond shifting energy in time, current SEP is mostly blind to other system services. (5) Today, many flexibility options are available, but they are often assessed separately. In the same line, although cross-sectorial (power, heat, transport, water) SEP is becoming more frequent, there are many open tasks towards an integrated coordination. The planning of future energy systems will be multi-sectorial and multi-objective, consider the multi-services of ESS, and will inherently require interdisciplinary efforts.
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