Energy management for stationary electric energy storage systems: A systematic literature review

Electric Energy Storage Systems (EESS) have received an increased attention in recent years due to their important role in an active management of energy supply systems. Fueled by the increasing shares of intermittent Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in today's energy supply, balancing energy demand and energy supply over time becomes more and more challenging. EESS are recognized as a key technology to overcome this challenge by storing energy and converting it back when needed. Even though some EESS solutions are already available on the market, EESS suffer from technical limitations and entail high investment costs. Energy management is responsible for managing the operations of EESS and the interactions with the surrounding systems. An optimal energy management is an important precondition to ensure economic viability of EESS. This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on energy management for stationary EESS applications. The aim of the paper is to give a comprehensive overview of the literature in this field and to develop a conceptual framework that facilitates the structuring of research on the management of EESS and the identification of future research opportunities. The paper first introduces the methodology used for the literature review and then descriptively analyzes the identified publications. Afterwards, it outlines the proposed conceptual framework that provides a structure for categorizing the identified literature. Subsequently, we discuss the identified papers in light of the proposed framework. The paper then concludes with a discussion of future research opportunities. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.