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Title: Development of a frequency regulation duty-cycle for standardized energy storage performance testing

Journal Article · · Journal of Energy Storage
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  1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

The US DOE Protocol for uniformly measuring and expressing the performance of energy storage systems, first developed in 2012 through inclusive working group activities, provides standardized methodologies for evaluating an energy storage system’s ability to supply specific services to electrical grids. This article elaborates on the data and decisions behind the duty-cycle used for frequency regulation in this protocol. Analysis of a year of publicly available frequency regulation control signal data from a utility was considered in developing the representative signal for this use case. Moreover, this showed that signal standard deviation can be used as a metric for aggressiveness or rigor. From these data, we select representative 2 h long signals that exhibit nearly all of dynamics of actual usage under two distinct regimens, one for average use and the other for highly aggressive use. Our results were combined into a 24-h duty-cycle comprised of average and aggressive segments. The benefits and drawbacks of the selected duty-cycle are discussed along with its potential implications to the energy storage industry.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Electricity (OE); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
1257783
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1397446
Report Number(s):
SAND2016-4502J; 639987
Journal Information:
Journal of Energy Storage, Journal Name: Journal of Energy Storage; ISSN 2352-152X
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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