Short Term Electricity Storage For CPV Power Plants Available to Purchase

An initial analysis of short term electricity storage for CPV power plants is performed with respect to its functions “power output smoothing” and “end of day energy production”. First, the different storage technologies are shortly discussed. Then charge and discharge of the storage device of a model CPV plant is studied by using measured DNI data for selected days at a good CPV location. The selection of days is done according to their average DNI per day classification. The power to energy ratio of the storage, the allowed minimum state of charge (SOC) and the requested power from the storage are the varying parameters of the study. With increasing capacity of the storage, the requirements can be best fulfilled with the used initial storage strategies but the power output is shifted significantly.