Storage Battery Management for Economic Load Distribution

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for managing storage batteries in power systems are inefficient, leading to high operational and maintenance costs, as they focus on short-term variations and do not effectively utilize the batteries' full capacity, resulting in surplus power being left unused and labor-intensive individual management.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that calculate and manage power amounts supplied by storage batteries in prearranged time zones, considering economic load distribution, restriction conditions, efficiency, and cost, to optimize their usage and reduce the need for frequent adjustments in electric generators, thereby allowing collective management and reducing labor and equipment investment.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If storage batteries are managed individually by consumers for rationalization of power cost, then power cost is reduced on consumer side, but the full capacity of storage batteries cannot be utilized and surplus power remains unused

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepower cost rationalizationVSAvoidstorage battery utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges individual storage battery management into a unified system where a management device coordinates multiple storage batteries and power sources collectively. This allows the aggregation of dispersed storage capacities to participate in economic load distribution control at the system level, thereby fully utilizing storage battery capacity while maintaining consumer-side cost benefits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The management device provides multi-functional coordination, enabling storage batteries to simultaneously serve consumer power cost rationalization and system-level economic load distribution. The system can flexibly allocate storage battery output between local consumption and system-wide load balancing, maximizing the versatility and utilization of storage resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If storage batteries are used to control current at linkage point between micro-grids and power system, then current control is achieved, but complicated control systems and permanent management staff are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecurrent control at linkage pointVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The management device automatically performs current control at the linkage point by coordinating storage battery output based on system conditions. The system self-regulates the current contribution from storage batteries to maintain linkage point stability without requiring permanent human management staff or overly complicated control mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback control where the management device continuously monitors system conditions and adjusts storage battery output accordingly. This automated feedback mechanism ensures reliable current control at the linkage point while simplifying the control system structure by using intelligent algorithms rather than complex hardware controls.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Object-generated harmful factors

If thermal electric generators are reduced to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, then environmental impact is reduced, but adjustment between demand and supply of electric power becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegreenhouse gas emissionsVSAvoiddemand-supply adjustment capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-generated harmful factorsVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the operational parameters of storage batteries from static consumer-side use to dynamic system-wide participation. By adjusting storage battery charge/discharge cycles based on economic load distribution requirements, the system compensates for the reduced flexibility of thermal generators while maintaining low emissions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

Storage batteries serve as an intermediary resource between renewable power sources and system demand. The management device coordinates storage battery output to fill the flexibility gap left by reduced thermal generation, enabling demand-supply adjustment without relying on greenhouse gas-emitting generators.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Reliability

If storage batteries are utilized for short-term variations in power system, then short-term balance is improved, but long-term economic load distribution is not optimized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveshort-term power balanceVSAvoideconomic efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extends the useful action of storage batteries from short-term fluctuations to continuous participation in economic load distribution. The management device integrates storage battery operation into the overall economic optimization framework, ensuring that storage resources contribute to both short-term balance and long-term economic efficiency in a coordinated manner.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentEP2816699B1Method and device for operating power system, and rechargeable-battery management device
Publication Date: 2019.11.06 HITACHI LTD
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AI summary

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method and device for operating a power system, and a rechargeable-battery management device, that extract maximum performance from rechargeable batteries and use said batteries evenly while taking into consideration cost and the operation of the batteries. In order to solve said problem, in this method for operating a power system provided with a plurality of rechargeable-battery devices and a plurality of electric generators, the amount of power that a rechargeable battery available during a scheduled time period on a scheduled date will be able to supply is determined, an economic-dispatch calculation including the determined amount of power that the aforementioned rechargeable battery will be able to supply is performed for the power system, and said rechargeable battery is used to supply power during the scheduled time period on the scheduled date.