Additionally, such facilities could potentially be connected to wind and solar electricity production and be used for energy
grid load balancing applications (using excess renewable energy that the grid can not handle), making renewable energy generation carbon negative.
Not exact matches
That gets to be a bit of a challenge to
balance the electric
load on the
grid.
Can the
grid really
balance all the
loads?
In a scenario where most light vehicles and heat is from electric power, there will be tremendous
load -
balancing opportunities through vehicle - to -
grid technology, used vehicle batteries, and heat storage.
Technical constraints,
load balancing and frequency control issues (on weaker
grids) imposed by limitations in existing
grid structures and capacities
The fleet is expected to provide up to 700 kilowatts of energy to the
grid, which can be used to
balance the overall
load by absorbing excess power, then putting it back into the
grid during times of high demand.
This can be used for localized
grid «
load -
balancing» with rapid response electricity.
As this occurs, natural gas capacity can be redirected to a higher - value role: providing «
load -
balancing» services to future electricity
grids.
Tasmania's wind resources could be dispatched into the
grid first,
load -
balanced by hydro.
While the dam could provide baseload power to Queensland, its real long - term value could come through providing ongoing «
load -
balancing» to Queensland's electricity
grid.
This is putting China in the forefront of developing the use of water as a «battery» for providing
load -
balancing to electricity
grids.
This cross-border «
load balancing» function is perhaps the most significant efficiency gain future interconnected
grids can bring.
well, there wwere recent calculations, that pure basload power generators also need significant
grid extensions and
balancing costs, not exactly like wind and solar, but also not that much cheaper when a high penetration of the
load in the
grid exists.
In the new system, rather than having «always - on» baseload (e.g. nuclear) plants, and then following any extra
load with peaking plants (usually gas), in the new system, variable
loads and variable supply (from renewables) are
balanced via a smart
grid with demand - side measures,
load peak shaving / delay, energy storage, and backup sources.
The excess power or off - peak power generated by wind generators or solar arrays may then be used at a later time for
load balancing in the energy
grid.
On a large scale the device could both provide electricity and act as energy storage,
balancing out power
load of the
grid.
Mercedes - Benz is already working on three large industrial - scale projects, including one with 29 mWh of storage capacity, that will help to
balance the energy
loads and fluctuations in the German
grid.
Storing electricity as a way of
balancing the
grid is closely linked to the principle of Price - responsive -
load.
These sources can piggyback on existing infrastructure, pumping electricity into power
grids (though their intermittent power production requires managers to adjust their
load -
balancing techniques).