Mobile energy storage presents numerous advantages that enhance the convenience and versatility of energy solutions across various applications, supporting a sustainable approach to power management.
Why is mobile energy storage important?
Therefore, enhancing the safe and stable operation capability of the power system is an urgent problem that needs to be solved. Mobile energy storage can improve system flexibility, stability, and regional connectivity, and has the potential to serve as a supplement or even substitute for fixed energy storage in the future.
The primary advantage that mobile energy storage offers over stationary energy storage is flexibility. MESSs can be re-located to respond to changing grid conditions, serving different applications as the needs of the power system evolve.
Mobile energy storage can improve system flexibility, stability, and regional connectivity, and has the potential to serve as a supplement or even substitute for fixed energy storage in the future. However, there are few studies that comprehensively evaluate the operational performance and economy of fixed and mobile energy storage systems.
Does mobile energy storage improve power system resilience?
Compared to stationary batteries and other energy storage systems, their mobility provides operational flexibility to support geo-graphically dispersed loads across an outage area. This paper provides a comprehensive and critical review of academic literature on mobile energy storage for power system resilience enhancement.
Tech-economic performance of fixed and mobile energy storage system is compared. The proposed method can improve system economics and renewable shares. With the large-scale integration of renewable energy and changes in load characteristics, the power system is facing challenges of volatility and instability.
Additionally, setting the solar power station as a supply point for batteries, and utilizing a combined wind and solar energy supply could further enhance the complementary use of these resources, benefiting mobile energy storage.