Large stationary battery storage (BS) has experienced rapid growth, but only few studies have examined the social acceptability of these. An online survey is conducted by examining visual impact (location and design) BS on acceptability. Analyses indicate that more readily accepted in industrial rural areas compared to residential or participants’ immediate neighborhoods. Adapting design its su...

The electric power grid is undergoing significant changes and updates nowadays, especially on a production and transmission level. Initially, the move towards a distributed generation in contrast to the existing centralized one implies a significant integration of renewable energy sources and electricity storage systems. In addition, environmental awareness and related concerns regarding pollut...

Being sustainable and producing little waste products, the renewable energy knows a rapid deployment. Unfortunately, the intermittent characteristic of these energies makes them difficult to control. The influence of this aleatory character can be reduced with the coupling of two or more sources of renewable energy and secondly with a sound management of storage systems. This new configuration ...

The use of hydroelectric pump-storage system at large scale, MW-size systems, is already widespread around the world. Designed for large scale applications, pump-storage station can be scaled-down for small, remote residential applications. Given the cost and complexity associated with installing a substation further than 100 miles from the main transmission lines, a remote, independent and sel...

Mobile 1 computer usage is increasing rapidly and laptops now come equipped with the latest microprocessors, color displays, large disks and other energy-intensive devices. Unfortunately, the batteries that power all this portability are lagging behind in their ability to meet these increasing power requirements. As a result mobile computers suuer from short battery life and require frequent re...

8 This paper addresses different techniques for modelling electrochemical energy storage (ES) devices in insular power 9 network applications supported on real data. The first contribution is a comprehensive performance study between a set of 10 competing electrochemical energy storage technologies: Lithium-ion (Li-ion), Nickel–Cadmium (NiCd), Nickel–Metal 11 Hydride (NiMH) and Lead Acid (PbA) ...