Research Article
Recharging the Transition to Low Carbon Economy: The Role of Battery Energy Storage Systems
Maurizio Bragagni
,
Lorenc Xhaferraj*,
Giulia Maria Bragagni,
Maya Checchi
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2025
Pages:
1-23
Received:
21 February 2025
Accepted:
7 March 2025
Published:
26 March 2025
Abstract: The transition to a sustainable energy future requires significant changes to power generation, with a strong focus on decarbonisation. While renewable energy sources like wind and solar are expanding rapidly to replace fossil fuels, their variability poses challenges to grid stability and electricity costs. Traditional power grids struggle to accommodate these fluctuations, limiting renewable energy integration. Large-scale energy storage offers a crucial solution by storing excess renewable energy and releasing it during peak demand, enhancing grid reliability. Energy Storage Systems (ESS) play a vital role in enabling a greener energy landscape by ensuring a stable and efficient power supply while reducing fossil fuel dependence. Among these, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) stand out due to their scalability, affordability, and growing adoption in the energy sector. Advances in battery technology are driving cost reductions, making BESS an increasingly viable solution for large-scale renewable energy integration. This paper examines the role of BESS in addressing grid challenges and supporting the expansion of renewable energy, highlighting its importance in the transition to a sustainable power system.
Abstract: The transition to a sustainable energy future requires significant changes to power generation, with a strong focus on decarbonisation. While renewable energy sources like wind and solar are expanding rapidly to replace fossil fuels, their variability poses challenges to grid stability and electricity costs. Traditional power grids struggle to acco...
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Research Article
Contribution to the Reduction of the Harmonic Distortions and of the Current Unbalance in a Distribution Network
Daouda Abdourahimoun,
Adamou Namata Aboubacar*
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2025
Pages:
24-30
Received:
5 March 2025
Accepted:
21 March 2025
Published:
10 April 2025
Abstract: Today, the challenge of electricity distribution is to ensure the quality of electrical energy to balance production and demand. However, many of these disturbances can be found in an electrical network. Traditional and modern solutions have been proposed in the literature to reduce these disturbances. Among these solutions, active filtering has proven to be the most effective. There are active series filters designed to compensate for parasitic voltages, active parallel filters designed to compensate for parasitic currents and hybrid filters designed to compensate for both parasitic voltages and currents. In fact, several innovative solutions have been implemented to improve the reliability of these active filters. This research focuses on the simultaneous reduction of electrical harmonics and current imbalance in electrical power distributed to customers. The objective is to model and simulate in the Matlab/Simulink environment a four-wire active filter adapted to a public power distribution network. The integration of the parallel active filter will result in a simultaneous reduction of the harmonic rate and the unbalance. At the end of the simulation, the parallel active filter contributed significantly to reducing the harmonic rate in the different phases from 46% to 1.50% and the current unbalance rate from 14.78% to 0.14%.
Abstract: Today, the challenge of electricity distribution is to ensure the quality of electrical energy to balance production and demand. However, many of these disturbances can be found in an electrical network. Traditional and modern solutions have been proposed in the literature to reduce these disturbances. Among these solutions, active filtering has pr...
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