Western European power grid builds liquid flow energy storage power station

Firstly, this paper proposes the concept of a flexible energy storage power station (FESPS) on the basis of an energy-sharing concept, which offers the dual functions of power flow regulation and energy storage. Moreover, the real-time application scenarios, operation, and implementation process for the FESPS have been analyzed herein.

The load is supplied by the superior power grid separately from 01:00 to 05:00. During the period from 06:00 to 08:00, the load is transferred by the power flow. Period of 09:00 and during the period 18:00–19:00, the load is jointly supplied by the renewable energy, energy storage or/and power flow transfer.

For power grid companies, the FESPS can realize load transfer and reduce power wastage by actively transferring network power flow and charging or discharging the energy storage station.

For power grid enterprises, multi-point centralized medium and large-scale energy storage stations will be conducive to the reinforcement of the distribution network and the sustainable consumption of renewable energy.

In this mode, the power flow can be regulated by the energy storage or non-fault side power grid through the FESPS to ensure uninterrupted power supply. In addition, the energy storage and non-fault side power grid could jointly realize uninterrupted power supply for the load.

The operation process of power flow regulation and shared energy storage of bus 1 after obtaining the solution to the bilevel optimization operation model is depicted in Fig. 9. During the periods of 01:00–05:00 and 23:00–24:00, the load is jointly supplied by the power flow transfer and the superior power grid.