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Title: Estimating electricity storage power rating and discharge duration for utility transmission and distribution deferral :a study for the DOE energy storage program.

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/876523· OSTI ID:876523
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  1. Distributed Utility Associates, Livermore, CA
  2. ,.Distributed Utility Associates, Livermore, CA

This report describes a methodology for estimating the power and energy capacities for electricity energy storage systems that can be used to defer costly upgrades to fully overloaded, or nearly overloaded, transmission and distribution (T&D) nodes. This ''sizing'' methodology may be used to estimate the amount of storage needed so that T&D upgrades may be deferred for one year. The same methodology can also be used to estimate the characteristics of storage needed for subsequent years of deferral.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
876523
Report Number(s):
SAND2005-7069; TRN: US200606%%570
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English