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Making Utility-Integrated Energy Storage a Used, Useful and Universal Resource

  • Doosan GridTech
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2018
  • Objective signs are everywhere that the stationary energy storage market is growing up quickly. The use of distributed resources such as solar photovoltaics and electric vehicles are expanding at a rapid pace, creating technical challenges for the distribution system that will require energy storage and a new generation of software to address. This paper is intended for distribution utility managers and executives and makes the following points: ${\bullet}$ Utility-integrated (as opposed to merely grid-connected) energy storage projects represent a distinct, new wave of industry growth that is just getting underway and is required to manage distributed energy resources moving forward. ${\bullet}$ Utilities and the energy storage industry have important roles to lower risk in adopting this technology - thereby enabling this wave of growth. ${\circ}$ The industry must focus on engineering energy storage for adoption at scale - including the creation and support of software open standards -both to drive down costs and to limit technology and supplier risk for utilities. ${\circ}$ Utilities need to take a program-based, rather than a project- based, approach to this resource to best balance cost and risk as they procure and implement energy storage. By working together to drive down costs and manage risk, utilities and their suppliers can lay the energy storage foundation for a new, more digital distributed electricity system.

A Study on the Characteristics of Electric Power Consumption of University (종합대학의 전력에너지 부하 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Choun-Mi;Kim, Ju-Young;Hong, Won-Hwa
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.336-341
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    • 2008
  • For the last half a century, Korea has been experienced rapid economic growth and industrialization development, however they cause serious problems that environment pollution and energy shortage are appeared, and the biggest problem that we are now confronted are required solutions through all over the world. Now, Korea's energy consumption is the 10th in the whole world. Among them, energy for buildings, about 25% in the whole Energy which spend in Korea, is very serious. Especially, the energy consumption of school buildings which have heating & cooling system according to improvements of educational environment are rapidly increasing. These features are explicit in the University, Because it has lots of colleges and facilities for lecture, experiment, and research. Especially, electric power consumption account for 75 percent of energy consumption in educational institutions. Accordingly, it is important to understand and analyze the pattern of electricity energy consumption which is used. This study attempts to appoint the place which is one of university and to investigate the characteristics of energy consumption like electricity, gas, oil.

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Gird Connected Modeling of Primary Frequency Recovery Reserve Provided by Electric Vehicle Considering Characteristics of Electric Vehicle Charge/Discharge Control Integrated Environment (전기자동차 충·방전제어 통합 환경을 고려한 전기차 1차 주파수 회복예비력의 계통연계형 모델링)

  • Kook, Kyung Soo;Lee, Jihoon;Moon, Jonghee;Choi, Wooyeong;Park, Kijun;Jang, Dongsik
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.249-254
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    • 2021
  • As the spreading speed of electric vehicles increases rapidly, those are expected to be able to use them as flexible resources in the power system beyond the concern for the supply of its charging power. Especially when the Renewable Energy sources (RES) which have no intrinsic control capability have replaced the synchronous generators more and more, the power system needs to secure the additional frequency control resources to ensure its stability. However, the feasibility of using electric vehicles as the frequency control resources should be analyzed from the perspective of the power system operation and it requires the existing simulation frameworks for the power system. Therefore, this paper proposes the grid connected modeling of the primary frequency control provided by electric vehicles which can be integrated into the existing power system model. In addition, the proposed model is implemented considering technical performances constrained by the characteristics of the Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) system so that the simulation results can be accepted by the power utilities operating the power system conservatively.

Experimental Study for Wave Energy Convertor using Floating Light Buoy (등부표를 이용한 파력발전에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Oh, Nam Sun;Jeong, Shin Taek;Ko, Dong Hui
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.50-55
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, wave energy convertors which convert incident wave energy into electric power using floating light buoy are investigated. One-tenth models of a floating light buoy, straight line and seesaw type electric power plant are manufactured and tested in wave flume. In these systems, we measure the horizontal and vertical slope, generated current and power of buoy with different wave heights and periods. This was confirmed the capability of getting electric power, then we suggest further works to get more efficiency.

A Reliability Model of Wind Farm Considering the Complex Terrain and Cable Failure Based on Clustering Algorithm

  • Liu, Wenxia;Chen, Qi;Zhang, Yuying;Qiu, Guobing;Lin, Chenghui
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.1891-1899
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    • 2014
  • A reliability model of wind farm located in mountainous land with complex terrain, which considers the cable and wind turbine (WT) failures, is proposed in this paper. Simple wake effect has been developed to be applied to the wind farm in mountainous land. The component failures in the wind farm like the cable and WT failures which contribute to the wind farm power output (WFPO) and reliability is investigated. Combing the wind speed distribution and the characteristic of wind turbine power output (WTPO), Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is used to obtain the WFPO. Based on clustering algorithm the multi-state model of a wind farm is proposed. The accuracy of the model is analyzed and then applied to IEEE-RTS 79 for adequacy assessment.

Sensitivity Analysis on Driving Characteristics According to Change in Gear Ratio of a Front Wheel Drive Electric Vehicle (전륜구동 전기자동차의 기어비 변경에 따른 구동 특징 민감도 분석)

  • Son, Young-Kap;Kim, Jeong-Min
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.50-55
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    • 2022
  • Acceleration performance, maximum velocity, urban driving energy consumption, and high-way driving energy consumption are important characteristics of electric vehicle driving. This study analyzes the effect of a gear ratio on these characteristics for a front wheel drive electric vehicle. The normalized sensitivity metric is used to compare the sensitivity of these scaled characteristics to the changes in the gear ratio. The sensitivity analysis results show that the normalized values are 0.95 for maximum velocity, 0.91 for acceleration performance, 0.51 for urban driving energy consumption, and 0.24 for high-way driving energy consumption. Therefore, the maximum velocity was affected the most by the changes in the gear ratio. These results can be used to determine the gear ratio of a front wheel drive electric vehicle to optimize the driving characteristics simultaneously.

Optimization of Shift Control to Improve Driving Efficiency of Battery Electric Vehicles with Two-speed Transmission (2단 변속기 적용 전기차의 구동 효율 향상을 위한 변속 제어 최적화)

  • Taekho Chung;Younghee Kim
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.62-67
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    • 2023
  • Recently, the global automobile industry is aiming for a transition from internal combustion locomotives to zero-emission vehicles. Electric vehicles powered by battery energy can operate at peak performance and improve fuel economy by applying multiple motors or multi-speed transmissions. In order to design a two-speed transmission, it is necessary to evaluate and analyze the application system and performance of electric vehicles. In this study, control performance optimization of a twostage battery electric vehicle equipped with an AMT-based automatic transmission was performed and performance according to control pattern changes was analyzed. In order to improve the operating efficiency of the motor, the shift control that sets the optimal operating point according to the vehicle speed and required torque was derived from the motor efficiency map. The performance of battery energy consumption and transmission loss energy according to the hysteresis interval was analyzed and optimized. The hysteresis interval applied to the optimal shift map acted as a factor in reducing the frequency and loss of shifts. It has been shown that keeping the hysteresis interval at about 4 km/h can reduce energy consumption while reducing the number of shifts.