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Abstract— This paper presents the economical operation Smart Grid is an electrical grid that uses information and
strategy to extend the lifespan of Battery Energy Storage communication technologies to manage various energy
System (BESS) and achieve the maximum profits of BESS resources efficiently. Smart Grid technology is presented
under an uncertainty of wind power. The economical method which is efficiently able to manage BESS with a wind
operation strategy considers the optimal charge/discharge farm. Therefore, various pilot projects for Smart Grid are
schedule of BESS with battery physical constraints, a being conducted using its concept and technology in many
probabilistic wind power forecast, local grid codes and countries [3].
electricity trading prices. In Jeju Smart Grid pilot project, The integration of BESS into wind farm can make
855kWh Lithium-polymer and 250 kWh LiFePO4 type intermittent renewable energy sources more dispatchable.
BESSs were applied for smoothing intermittent wind Therefore, the BESS is increasingly being considered for
power and relieving a peak electricity load. After Energy efficiency management of energy storage system on a wind
Management System (EMS) collects various data from farm environment [4].
wind turbine, Battery Management System (BMS), Power Battery technologies have been improved rapidly in order
Conditioning System (PCS), a connected grid, electricity to meet the challenges of applications in many parts such as
market and weather forecast center, it decides the electric vehicle and controllable generation resource for utility.
charge/discharge schedule of BESS and the best bid price As a result, recent advances in electric energy storage
in electricity market. Experimental results are then technologies provide many opportunities to make the system
presented to meet the required performance and quantify to be operated in more flexible and controllable manners [5]-
the expected profits in terms of the life expectancy of [6].
BESS.
Since large-scale BESS is rather expensive, a control
Index Terms-- Economical Operation Strategy, Battery strategy for optimal use of BESS becomes a critical design
Energy Storage System, Energy Management System, issue. Some of optimal operation strategies for BESS with
regard to charge and discharge scheduling are proposed
Electricity Market
through dynamic programming [7], nonlinear programming [8]
I. INTRODUCTION and multipass iteration particle swarm optimization approach
[9]. Also, the optimal operation of BESS is proposed to
In the recent years, renewable energy sources such as solar achieve the maximum profits of BESS in relation to real-time
and wind turbine are gradually spreading because of higher electricity price [12]. However, the above studies were applied
harmful effects on environment and reduction of fossil fuels to the limited three different electricity prices based on the
by increasing energy consumption all around the world [1]. time in a day. In this study, the economical operation strategy
However, the power generation from renewable energy is presented to extend the lifespan of BESS and achieve the
sources is unpredictable and unstable due to their intrinsic maximum profits of BESS under an uncertainty of wind
features. Therefore, when these energy resources are power on Jeju Smart Grid pilot project.
connected on power grid, the design to manage them more
efficiently should be considered because of a higher level of This paper is organized as follows. Firstly, a brief
their penetration. The practical suitable way to overcome these overview of BESS is provided in Section II. Secondly,
challenges is using Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) electricity market model of the Jeju Smart Grid pilot project is
[2]. Furthermore, BESS is one of the key technologies for presented in Section III. The optimization methods and the
Smart Grid. assumptions for the BESS are introduced in Section IV. A
case study for the Jeju Smart Grid pilot project is then
explained in Section V, and finally, section VI summarizes the restricting the possible DOD in the application, the system
main conclusions and future work. operator can dramatically improve the cycle life of the battery
but the operation range will be dramatically reduced. This
II. BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM paper has strongly considered the dominant parameters of
Since it is difficult to predict and control the output of battery life as DOD and a rate of charge. As described in [17],
wind power generation, its potential impacts on an electric the lifespan of BESS depending on DOD can be calculated as
grid are different from traditional energy sources. To enable a 19 years when the DOD is 90%.
proper management of the uncertainty, many researches D. BESS Model
present various approaches to make wind power become a
more reliable source on both energy and capacity by using The stored energy of BESS can be calculated from the sum
energy storage devices. Combining the wind turbine of its output power [10]. Since Jeju electricity market price is
available on one day ahead, time step used in the study is one
generation system with energy storage will reduce a
hour. The energy stored in the BESS is expressed as follows.
fluctuation of wind power.
A. Advantage When BESS is charging at hour t (Pt > 0),
BESS can be used to reduce a peak demand and the plant’s 𝐸 𝑡+1 = 𝐸 𝑡 + 𝑛𝑐 𝑃𝑡 × ∆𝑡 (1)
electricity bill by discharging the stored energy during load
peaks. Also, the combination of energy storage with wind and when BESS is discharging at hour t (Pt < 0),
turbine improves an availability of wind power without risking 𝑃𝑡
a voltage stability of grid, yields various ancillary benefits 𝐸 𝑡+1 = 𝐸 𝑡 + × ∆𝑡 (2)
𝑛𝑑
such as reduced system losses and improved power factor
control, and increases throughput of existing grid where 𝐸 𝑡 , 𝐸 𝑡+1 are the stored energy in BESS at hour 𝑡
infrastructure. and hour 𝑡 + 1 respectively, 𝑃𝑡 is the power output of the
BESS at hour t, 𝑛𝑐 is the charging efficiency of the BESS, 𝑛𝑑
B. Disadvantage
is the charging efficiency of the BESS, ∆𝑡 is the time interval
The template is used to format your paper and style the (1 hour).
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are prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note E. Economic Model
peculiarities. For example, the heading margin in this template The cost of BESS must be considered in order to establish
measures proportionately more than is customary. This an economic analysis. In generally, the total cost is divided
measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications into capital and operating cost.
that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings,
and not as an independent document. Please do not revise any (1) Capital Cost of BESS
of the current designations. The capital cost is a function of storage device power and
C. Disadvantage energy capacities and their specific costs depending on the
chosen technology. BESS capital cost is defined as a function
of two main parts. The first part is related to the storable
energy; the second part depends on the peak power that the
storage must deliver and it is controlled by the
charge/discharge control system according to the demand
requirements. Therefore, BESS capital cost will be expressed
as
𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑚𝑙𝑙 = 𝐶𝑝 𝑃𝑚𝑚𝑚 + 𝐶𝐸 𝐸𝑚𝑚𝑥 (3)
where 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑚𝑙𝑙 is BESS capital cost, 𝑃𝑚𝑚𝑚 [kW] is BESS
power and 𝐸𝑚𝑚𝑚 [kWh] is the energy capacity, 𝐶𝑝 [USD/kWh]
is the power cost coefficient, 𝐶𝐸 [USD/kWh] is the energy cost
coefficient [6], [11].
This study uses 855kWh Lithium-polymer and 250 kWh
LiFePO4 type BESSs. The technical characteristics of BESS
Figure 1. BESS life cycle function
considered in this study are presented in Table I [14].
Figure 3. EMS
Figure 4. The schematic configuration of demonstration center
TABLE II. THE SPECIFICATIONS OF DEMONSTRATION and the stored energy of BESS in the winter weekday are
SYSTEM
shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 8. BESS is charged or discharged by
No. Item Rated Value considering both the deviation of wind power forecast and the
1 Wind Turbine (WT) 1,500kW state of charge (SOC) of BESS during low electricity price
2 Photovoltaic (PV) 100kW such as from 00:00 to 06:00. Furthermore, the BESS is
discharged as the error amount of wind power forecast near
3 Long-term BESS 855kWh/1,000kW
the time of peak price after it is fully charged by SOC 100%
4 Short-term BESS 250kWh/1,000kW before an hour of that. When wind power forecast is lower
5 Long-term PCS 1,000kW actual wind power at about 10:00 as shown in Fig. 6, the
6 Short-term PCS 1,000kW BESS is not operated.
7 STATCOM 500kVar
8 EV Charger 50kW
9 Local Load 100kVA
10 Grid Voltage 22.9kV
B. Case Study
The specifications of BESS for estimating economic
profits which was proposed in this paper are shown in Table
III. Since both short-term and long-term BESS are the same
type of Lithium battery, the power and energy capacity of
BESS were assumed the sum of two BESSs. Therefore, it is
presented that the BESS power capacity 𝑃𝑚𝑚𝑚 is 2,000 kW
and the BESS energy capacity 𝐸𝑚𝑚𝑚 is 1,105 kWh.
TABLE III. THE SPECIFICATION OF BESS IN CASE STUDY Figure 5. The financial-binding price of Jeju project at a winter weekday in
NDG market
Item Value
BESS Type Li-Polymer, LiFePO4
𝑃𝑚𝑚𝑚 2,000kW
Total BESS Capacity
𝐸𝑚𝑚𝑚 1,105kWh
Charging Efficiency(𝑛𝑐 ) 90%
Discharging Efficiency(𝑛𝑑 ) 90%
Figure 12. The stored energy of BESS at a summer day in NDG market