The role of mobile energy storage

Why is mobile energy storage important?

Energy storage plays a crucial role in enhancing grid resilience by providing stability, backup power, load shifting capabilities, and voltage regulation. While stationary energy storage has been widely adopted, there is growing interest in vehicle-mounted mobile energy storage due to its mobility and flexibility.

What is a mobile energy storage system?

A mobile energy storage system is composed of a mobile vehicle, battery system and power conversion system . Relying on its spatial–temporal flexibility, it can be moved to different charging stations to exchange energy with the power system.

How can mobile energy storage improve power grid resilience?

Improving power grid resilience can help mitigate the damages caused by these events. Mobile energy storage systems, classified as truck-mounted or towable battery storage systems, have recently been considered to enhance distribution grid resilience by providing localized support to critical loads during an outage.

What is a mobile energy storage system (mess)?

During emergencies via a shift in the produced energy, mobile energy storage systems (MESSs) can store excess energy on an island, and then use it in another location without sufficient energy supply and at another time , which provides high flexibility for distribution system operators to make disaster recovery decisions .

How do different resource types affect mobile energy storage systems?

When different resource types are applied, the routing and scheduling of mobile energy storage systems change. (2) The scheduling strategies of various flexible resources and repair teams can reduce the voltage offset of power supply buses under to minimize load curtailment of the power distribution system.

Can mobile energy storage systems improve resilience of distribution systems?

According to the motivation in Section 1.1, the mobile energy storage system as an important flexible resource, cooperates with distributed generations, interconnection lines, reactive compensation equipment and repair teams to optimize dispatching to improve the resilience of distribution systems in this paper.