• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제64권2호
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• pp.57-61
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• 2015

Current research and development efforts and other projects for energy storage systems (ESS) have recently been gaining attention. This is due to the many applications where ESS, particularly batteries, can be used. Among these are peak shaving, frequency regulation, and stabilization of renewable energy output. KEPCO has completed the construction and demonstration of a 4-MW battery energy storage system (BESS) located in Jeju City to verify its practicability in the power grid. KEPCO Research Institute has also been developing technology for the commercialization of BESS, and has been conducting a trial run of a 52-MW ESS (28MW + 24MW of Seo-Anseong and Shin-Yongin substations) constructed in 2014 for frequency regulation. This paper discusses the development of operation methods, as well as an operation user interface, for the safe operation and monitoring of BESS used for frequency regulation in a power system. Included are operation and simulation methods for various normal and transient frequency situations that can be experienced by a power system. Also discussed are the results obtained after applying these methods to the 4-MW BESS and the 52-MW ESS, both used for frequency regulation. The technology in this paper will be applied to 500MW ESS for frequency regulation of KEPCO by 2017. It is expected that this technology helps a safe and reliable operation and control of ESS for frequency regulation through its continuous upgrade.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권4호
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• pp.555-560
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• 2016

Recently, many countries have placed great attention on energy security and climate changes. Governments are promoting the construction of renewable energy projects with regulatory support in Korea. Despite an increasing penetration of renewable resources, however, the photovoltaic and wind power are underutilized due to the endemic problems such as difficulties of output control and intermittent output. The Energy Storage System (ESS) is proposed as a good solution for solving the problems and has been studied in both the private business and the government. However, because of inefficient aspects, the research has been carried out for improving high costs and a small capacity. In addition, the ESS is currently installed for using only one purpose which is frequency regulation or transmission congestion relief such that has an economic limitation. Therefore, methods which are becoming economically justifiable to increase the penetration of the ESS is required. Thus, this paper presents in terms of operation efficiency to improve economic feasibility of the ESS currently used. mainly, there are two aspects for the operation efficiency. Firstly, it is intended to improve the utilization rate through a process that can utilize the ESS for various purposes. It is necessary to be able to use for other purposes by classifying and clustering for increasing the efficiency of availability. The clustering method is proposed to conduct the grouping the ESS. Especially, it is proposed to utilize ESS for frequency regulation service which is the one of ancillary services in the power system. Through case studies, it is confirmed to secure the necessary resources by clustering small size ESS.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.748-759
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• 2016

The microgrid concept is a promising approach for injecting clean, renewable, and reliable electricity into power systems. It can operate in both the grid-connected and the islanding mode. This paper addresses the two main challenges associated with the operation of a microgrid i.e. control and protection. A control strategy for inverter based distributed generation (DG) and an energy storage system (ESS) are proposed to control both the voltage and frequency during islanding operation. The protection scheme is proposed to protect the lines, DG and ESS. Further, the control scheme and the protection scheme are coordinated to avoid nuisance tripping of the DG, ESS and loads. The feasibility of the proposed method is verified by simulation and experimental results.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권10호
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• pp.1278-1285
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• 2018

For saving electricity bill, energy storage system(ESS) is being installed in factories, public building and commercial building with a Time-of-Use(TOU) tariff which consists of demand charge(KRW/kW) and energy charge(KRW/kWh). However, both of peak reduction and ESS special tariff are not considered in an analysis of initial cost payback period(ICPP) on ESS. Since it is difficult to reflect base rate by an amount of uncertain peak demand reduction during mid-peak and on-peak periods in the future days. Therefore, the ICPP on ESS can be increased. Based on this background, this paper presents the advanced analysis method for the ICPP on ESS. In the proposed algorithm, the representative days of monthly electricity consumption pattern for the amount of peak reduction can be found by the k­means clustering algorithm. Moreover, the total expected energy costs of representative days are minimized by optimal daily ESS operation considering both peak reduction and the special tariff through a mixed-integer linear programming(MILP). And then, the amount of peak reduction becomes a value that the sum of the expected energy costs for 12 months is maximum. The annual benefit cost is decided by the amount of annual peak reduction. Two simulation cases are considered in this study, which one only considers the special tariff and another considers both of the special tariff and amount of peak reduction. The ICPP in the proposed method is shortened by 18 months compared to the conventional method.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제65권4호
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• pp.235-241
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• 2016

Grid-connected, large-capacity energy storage systems (ESS) can be used for peak load supply, frequency regulation, and renewable energy output smoothing. In order to confirm the capability of battery ESS to provide such services, 4MW/ 8MWh battery ESS demonstration facility was built in the Jocheon substation on Jeju Island. The frequency regulation technology developed for the Jocheon demonstration facility then became the basis for the 28MW and 24MW frequency regulation ESS facilities installed in 2014 at the Seo-Anseong and Shin-Yongin substations, respectively. The operation control systems at these two facilities were continuously improved, and their successful commercialization led to the construction of additional ESS facilities all over Korea in 2015. In seven (7) locations nationwide (e.g., Shin-Gimje and Shin-Gyeryeong), a total of 184 MW of ESS had been commercialized in 2016. The trial run for the new ESS facilities had been completed between April and May in 2016. In this paper, results of the trial run from each of the ESS facilities are presented. The results obtained from the Seo-Anseong and Shin-Yongin substations during a transient event by a nuclear power plant trip are also presented in this paper. The results show that the frequency regulation battery ESS facilities were able to quickly respond to the transient event and trial run of ESS is necessary before it is commercialized.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2015년도 제46회 하계학술대회
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• pp.641-642
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• 2015

에너지저장장치(Energy Storage System, ESS)는 생산된 전력을 전력계통에 저장했다가 전력이 가장 필요한 시기에 꺼내어 사용함으로써 에너지효율을 높이는 능동적인 기술이다. ESS는 풍력발전, 태양광발전 등 신재생에너지와 같은 분산전원 도입, 피크부하에 대응하기 위한 부하평준화, 전력품질개선 등 그 역할과 기능이 확대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 후쿠시마 사고 이후 강조된 비상전원과 관련하여 원자력발전소 부지 내 비상전원으로써의 ESS 활용과 그 가능성에 대해서 기술하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.678-680
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• 2016

에너지 환경의 변화로 인해 가정 내 태양광 도입이 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 더불어 에너지 저장 시스템도 함께 활용되어 보다 유연한 에너지 관리가 이루어지고 있다. 태양광으로 생산된 전력을 보다 효과적으로 사용하여 피크 저감 및 가격을 고려한 전력소비를 이룰 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 에너지 저장 시스템을 홈 네트워크로 연동하여 홈 에너지관리 시스템의 구성요소로 이루기 위해 SEP(Smart Energy Profile)을 개발하였다. 에너지 저장 시스템에서 갖추고 있는 기능을 정의하고 표준 기반 프로토콜을 개발하여 제품간 호환을 이룰 수 있도록 하였다. 향후 주택에 에너지관리시스템 도입을 위해 상호운용성 확보는 매우 중요한 과제이며 이를 앞당길 수 있는 기반을 마련하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.1080-1088
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• 2014

By combining a wind turbine with an energy storage system (ESS), we are able to attenuate the intermittent wind power characteristic making the power derived from a wind farm dispatchable. This paper evaluates the influence of the phase delay of the low-pass filter in the conventional smoothing power control on the ESS capacity; longer phase delays require a larger ESS capacity. In order to eliminate the effect of the phase delay, we optimize the power dispatch using a zero-phase low-pass filter that results in a non-delayed response in the power dispatch. The proposed power dispatching method significantly minimizes the ESS capacity. In addition, the zero-phase low-pass filter, which is a symmetrical forward-reverse finite impulse response type, is designed simply with a small number of coefficients. Therefore, the proposed dispatching method is not only optimal, but can also be feasibly applied to real wind farms. The efficacy of the proposed dispatching method is verified by integrating a 3 MW wind turbine into the grid using wind data measured on Jeju Island.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.207-217
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• 2018

Recently, the importance of energy demand management, particularly peak load control, has been increasing due to the policy changes of the Second Energy Basic Plan. Even though the installation of distributed generation systems such as Photovoltaic and energy storage systems (ESS) are encouraged, high initial installation costs make it difficult to expand their supply. In this study, the power consumption of a university building was measured in real time and the measured power consumption data was used to calculate the optimal installation capacity of the Photovoltaic and ESS, respectively. In order to calculate the optimal capacity, it is necessary to analyze the operation methods of the Photovoltaic and ESS while considering the KEPCO electricity billing system, power consumption patterns of the building, installation costs of the Photovoltaic and ESS, estimated savings on electric charges, and life time. In this study, the power consumption of the university building with a daily power consumption of approximately 200kWh and a peak power of approximately 20kW was measured per minute. An economic analysis conducted using these measured data showed that the optimal capacity was approximately 30kW for Photovoltaic and approximately 7kWh for ESS.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.71-77
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 신재생에너지 발전과 연계한 에너지저장시스템(ESS)의 최적 운영을 위한 에너지관리시스템(EMS)의 구성요소 설계 시 고려할 기능, 운영 효과 분석과 전력요금 절감 방안을 제안한다. 이를 위해 태양광 발전 시스템에 리튬이온전지 기반의 배터리 시스템과 에너지관리시스템 연계 및 구축방안을 제시하고, 1년 동안 운영 데이터에 대한 분석한 결과를 기술한다. 또한 시스템 운영 효과를 높이기 위한 방안으로 EMS를 이용하여 최대수요 발생시간대의 피크전력을 경부하 시간대 충전전력으로 대체하여 ESS 전용 요금제에 따른 요금편익과 부하 평준화에 기여하는 효과를 제안한다.