Integration of battery storage into the German electrical power system

Abstract

The further integration of storage into the electric power system is unavoidable regarding the still increasing share of renewables and current market developments. Therefore a lot of different storage technologies are available today. The presented PhD-Thesis project will focus on integrating battery storage to the power system under different system and market conditions. Therefore, coupled control algorithms for single and virtual battery storage systems have to be developed depending on the battery's scope. For analyzing the reliability of different battery's scopes, the developed models will be integrated into an electric power system model for studying their influence on the power system and market concerning different development scenarios (renewables, nuclear phase-out). First actions dealt with the provision of Frequency Containment Reserve (FCR) power by a virtual battery storage under certain conditions in Germany. First results show appropriate working of implemented control algorithms and reliability for different shareholders.