Distributed Energy Storage Management in Moscow

According to the International Energy Agency, in the period up to 2030, distributed energy resources will provide up to 75% of new grid connections. For now, the Russian power system remains outside both the "energy transition" revolution and the large-scale development of distributed en-ergy resources.

Distributed Generation (DG), unlike other types of distributed energy resource, is applied to some extent in Russia. In Russia, power plants with a larger capacity than is common in Europe or the United States are classified as DG.

Table 1. Typical cases of distributed generation in Russia Capacity of 25-600 MW Technology – steam power (for stations launched in the XX century) and gas or reciprocated gas tur-bine (XXI century). Most often - co-generation. Capacity - usually from 500 kW to 10 MW. The technology - mainly recipro-cated gas turbine, less often micro-tur-bine.

In a rapidly changing world, centralized and distributed energy resources will coexist, and be connected by dynamically evolving electric grids. Removal of barriers to DER development will mean significant changes in the existing Russian market architecture and regulatory background.

At the same time, the most promising approach in Russia is distributed co-generation (a technology that shows a high level of efficiency in the northern coun-tries of Europe). According to the most conservative estimates, its poten-tial is about 17 GW.

32 Definition of the Energy Centre of the SKOLKOVO business school. a cybernetic physical electric power system that unites us-ers as active consumers, and which permits free energy ex-change and allows them to provide power for future use (providing sharing)34.