Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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The New Trend of Energy Storage as Virtual Transmission Explained
The latest trend is that power transmission companies around the world are increasingly looking at energy storage technology to defer or replace transmission system upgrades. How this works is energy storage is placed along a transmission line and operated to inject or absorb power, mimicking transmission line flows. Going with names like “virtual transmission” in Australia and “GridBooster” in Germany, projects totaling over 3 GW of capacity are poised to increase system efficiency and reliability across the world.
Storage as transmission offers an array of benefits over traditional transmission infrastructure. They are faster to deploy, have smaller footprint, flexibility, and relocatability, and they offer other additional services including the ability to provide reactive power, frequency and voltage control, and special protection schemes. They also act as revenue streams, while concurrently offering network support.
Some of the key undertakings as part of this trend are:
- RTE, a French utility company, is considering a 40 MW “virtual transmission line” project called RINGO. The project seeks to attain grid integration of renewable energy and optimize electricity currents on its network.
- The German grid development plan, developed by the utilities who own the transmission lines in the country, includes a massive 1.3 GW of energy storage to achieve grid stability and lower network costs.
- In India, the public-owned utility company based in the new state of Andhra Pradesh—the Andhra Pradesh Transmission Company—has proposed in January 2019 between 250 and 500 MW of energy storage to add capacity on its transmission network.
- In the US, Pacific Gas & Electric is following through on a 10 MW energy storage project as part of a portfolio of transmission solutions during its regional transmission planning process. This undertaking will be the first one in the country to provide congestion relief in the market.
Overall, the Energy Storage Systems Market is undergoing vast changes, and it is expected to grow rapidly in the next five years.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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