Towards an objective method to compare energy storage technologies: Development and validation of a model to determine the upper boundary of revenue available from electrical price arbitrage

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5425-5436

  Barbour, Edward ^a   Wilson, I A Grant ^b   Bryden, Ian G ^a   McGregor, Peter G ^b   Mulheran, Paul A ^b   Hall, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGING/DISCHARGING; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRICAL PRICE; MONTE CARLO; OBJECTIVE METHODS; OPTIMISATION METHOD; OPTIMUM SOLUTION; POWER LIMIT; REFERENCE VALUES; SELF-DISCHARGES; SINGLE-VALUE; SPECIFIC ENERGY; STORAGE TECHNOLOGY; TIME-DEPENDENT; UPPER BOUNDARY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

COMMERCE;

MODEL VALIDATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84856741309     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2ee02419e     Document Type: Article

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