Future trends of superconducting energy storage technology

What is a superconducting magnetic energy storage system?

Superconducting magnetic energy storage system can store electric energy in a superconducting coil without resistive losses, and release its stored energy if required [ 9, 10 ]. Most SMES devices have two essential systems: superconductor system and power conditioning system (PCS).

Can superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) units improve power quality?

Furthermore, the study in presented an improved block-sparse adaptive Bayesian algorithm for completely controlling proportional-integral (PI) regulators in superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) devices. The results indicate that regulated SMES units can increase the power quality of wind farms.

Can superconducting magnetic energy storage reduce high frequency wind power fluctuation?

The authors in proposed a superconducting magnetic energy storage system that can minimize both high frequency wind power fluctuation and HVAC cable system's transient overvoltage. A 60 km submarine cable was modelled using ATP-EMTP in order to explore the transient issues caused by cable operation.

Is SMEs a competitive & mature energy storage system?

The review shows that additional protection, improvement in SMES component designs and development of hybrid energy storage incorporating SMES are important future studies to enhance the competitiveness and maturity of SMES system on a global scale.

What are the trends in energy storage solutions?

Currently, the energy storage sector is focusing on improving energy consumption capacities to ensure stable and economic power system operations. Broadly, trends in energy storage solutions can be categorized into three concepts:

Is energy storage a new technology?

Energy storage is not a new technology. The earliest gravity-based pumped storage system was developed in Switzerland in 1907 and has since been widely applied globally. However, from an industry perspective, energy storage is still in its early stages of development.