Efficiency Improvement of Pumped Storage System for MW Scale Off-grid PV Plants

Andreea  Busca-Forcos; Dezso Sera; Cristian Busca; Corneliu Marinescu; Remus Teodorescu

doi:10.1109/ICRERA.2015.7418622

Efficiency Improvement of Pumped Storage System for MW Scale Off-grid PV Plants

Andreea Busca-Forcos, Dezso Sera, Cristian Busca, Corneliu Marinescu, Remus Teodorescu

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The photovoltaic market has been growing at a fast rate in the last two decades, and in 2014 reached a global capacity of about 180GW. Due to the increasing penetration level, large-scale energy storage systems that can compensate for its fluctuations become increasingly important. In case of off-grid systems, suitable energy storage is naturally a necessity. In areas with favorable geographical properties, pumped storage has an excellent potential to be applied with large-scale PV plants. The performance of a pumped storage system at MW power level, connected with an off-grid PV plant, is analyzed in this paper, considering the variable character of the PV power. An efficiency increase of the pumped storage system is obtained by means of an improved control of the motor for pump’s drive. The system is tested and validated on a RTDS (Real Time Digital Simulator) platform.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2015
Number of pages	6
Publisher	IEEE Press
Publication date	Nov 2015
Pages	1316 - 1321
Article number	7418622
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-9982-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2015.7418622 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2015.7418622
Publication status	Published - Nov 2015
Event	4th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2015 - Palermo, Italy Duration: 22 Nov 2015 → 25 Nov 2015

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Conference	4th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2015
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Palermo
Period	22/11/2015 → 25/11/2015

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Photovoltaic energy
Pumped storage
Efficiency
Control

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Busca-Forcos, A., Sera, D., Busca, C., Marinescu, C., & Teodorescu, R. (2015). Efficiency Improvement of Pumped Storage System for MW Scale Off-grid PV Plants. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2015 (pp. 1316 - 1321). Article 7418622 IEEE Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2015.7418622, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2015.7418622

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Busca-Forcos, A, Sera, D, Busca, C, Marinescu, C & Teodorescu, R 2015, Efficiency Improvement of Pumped Storage System for MW Scale Off-grid PV Plants. in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2015., 7418622, IEEE Press, pp. 1316 - 1321, 4th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2015, Palermo, Italy, 22/11/2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2015.7418622, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2015.7418622

Efficiency Improvement of Pumped Storage System for MW Scale Off-grid PV Plants. / Busca-Forcos, Andreea ; Sera, Dezso; Busca, Cristian et al.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2015. IEEE Press, 2015. p. 1316 - 1321 7418622.

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