Overview

Overview

This week, Lesson 10 continues the topic of energy storage – here we will try to identify the key issues related to the storage scale-up, when very large quantities of energy need to be stored for a relatively long period of time. In this lesson you will review the key metrics that help us compare different storage options and will apply those metrics in a storage sizing problem. This short, but useful exercise allows you to bring your understanding of battery parameters in a practical plane.

The discussion in this lesson is dedicated to the case study of PV+storage system operating in Hawaii – there are some good lessons to learn from the emergency situations on the Kauai Island demonstrating the ability of battery arrays to respond to blackouts. 

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