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Energy storage systems associated with renewable energies

Author: Denis LEFEBVRE

Publication date: October 10, 2017, Review date: October 23, 2020

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2. The benefits of storage for renewable energies

2.1 Intermittent renewable energies

When their presence on a power system is massive, intermittent renewable energies such as wind power and photovoltaics have characteristics that can rapidly become incompatible with the management of power system dynamics.

RE: renewable energies (wind, solar, hydro, biogas, biomass, geothermal, marine, etc.). Intermittent renewable energies are mainly wind, solar and hydro.

These intermittent renewable energies dominate the market for new power generation units, but they have the following disadvantages.

  1. Non-programmable: the level of production cannot be adapted to the consumption profile of users. The overall production...

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