Energy Storage System (ESS).An integrated energy management solution with smart grid control featuring power resilience, frequency balancing and demand side response services that is designed for "behind-the-meter applications". It allows for greater control and flexibility of electricity usage.
Energy Storing Capacity: Hundreds of kWh to MWh
Applications: Energy Optimisation in business and industrial applications. Electrification for off-grid area.
To understand ESS features, we have to take a close study at the grid as well as from the perspective of renewable energy sources.
Driven by advances in technology and communications, the traditional model of electricity generation, transmission and distribution is undergoing change in the advent of renewable energy.
As large centralised thermal power plants age into their end-of-life operation cycle, there will be needs to replace them with bigger capacity or higher efficiency plants to cope with ever-increasing demands from home, businesses, and industries. But to manage a balance of costs of building new plants or maintenance, provision of secure supply of clean electricity and for sustainable environment control using low-carbon renewable energy sources is a mounting challenge for most grid companies.
Whilst renewable energy technologies such as solar PV or wind are being considered in their upgrade plan, these grid companies, whether state or private-owned and operated, face a huge challenge of meeting energy demand due to the energy intermittency, such is the nature of these RE technologies.
RE when integrated with ESS enables commercial and industrial customers to store energy during generation, and dispense the electricity for consumption during peak demand period. In addition, energy storage could provide balancing services to local and national electricity networks, alleviating imbalances in supply and demand and allowing for greater penetration of intermittent renewable energy generation on to the grid.